WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP HAWEA. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 273, 16 June 1888, Page 4

WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP HAWEA. [BY TELEGRAPH- PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Nkw Plymouth, June 13. Tiik s.b. Hawoa, with passengers from the iManukau, struck whilo entering New Ply inuuLh harbour this morning. Aflei striking fast the vessel tilted over to j)ort consideiably, but as tho l'isinjj; tido came up she righted, mul at lii<*h water was ((uitu upiiglit, but the water bwepi her decki-. When she lirst began to till, the ship's boats Mete r ot out, iiiid tho passon<;us weio lain led on the wharf. Theio were si\' saloon passenger* ami fi\ c steerage. Tho.se for the express tiaiu weie Mis Kennedy and Messrs Seaifo and Ileul. The mail.s, passengers, and luggage weie also landed. Tho engine- were continuing to pump, bul. the water gradually put out tlie liroa. As the vessel began to .sink, the eiow, consisting ot 9 deck hands, 1 boy, 3 enginooi->, 9 In union, 7 stewards ,uu! a stewaid e-s, ami 3 in the cook-house, woio bout on .--hoie. Captain Han-~by and the chief ollieei, Mr Walket, lemained on board. The harbom tu<^ »aye as.sistance in landinu the eiew . 'W\o l-aeeliKisi -, were on board — Koith's in.'iio Alli^io, nhicli won the steepleeliaso in A'ickland on Monday, and (Jeoigo's AllllDllll! 1 . Allt^JO M <ls .sllUl^ 11 1 1 - 1. illl 0 tllO \\;iU-l, .uid one i»t the boat s eomnu'iieed to dm hei to .shoie. It r t>t her nudu.iy between the Breakwater and the pumping hou-e, when tlic haltci slippud and sho w unt out- to sea beyond the breakwatei. Aimouier w,i- -•luu^;, but somehow he slipp u | horn the sbiin- iu(o tho watei. 'Die lioi so su.nn towaid.- t)ie eabtle laoo, <\nd then tinned to sua, but w;io e.ainlit by a harbour boat, and bxou»ht nately to shoie. Alkicio w.i- }>m-uollm -uolI by the harbour boat' and seemed by a iopo, anil towed in, but Mas th owned A XAIIKOW EROAPE. When the )),issomiei- weie bi in<j landed, the elilef otlieci w, is washed oil the , but was picked up l>y one ot the boats. Then* i\ not a ww hir^e eaiyo on boaal, but all was under watei at noon, and the dick iit.tin^s \\( io bem^ wa-hed aslioio, the bulwatks beinu le\el with the watei's eil,ue. TIiEOKY OF THE AGCfDENT. It is -aid that the .->teamei shuck tho tluke o1o 1 hei own anehoi, and that no lotki <ue known to In w hcic '-he seem-- to ha\e stnu k -omet lnnu. THE IKSI T NANCES, Kti . The Haw <m was \ alued at C 13,000, and wa- m-uicd ioi t'5,000, m"/., L' 3,000 in the colonial oliiees, and L' 2,000 in Home otlices. Tlie a - Takapuna will probably lake up hei utiiiini". The manager here has made anan^emcnts to h,i\c the pas-on^eis biouijlit on hy tiain. Tho liwnanCLs in the colonial ollieos arcj: Tiio National and South ihiti-h L'soo caeli : St.mdaid. United, New Zealand, Colonial, and Noith (^luei^land C2,")oeaeh ; Yietoiia, C 750. The liawea Mas \ allied at C 13.000. She was itwued foi C 3,000 at Home, L' 2,000 in the colonial ollieos, the Union Company taking the balance of risks, vi/., CB,OOO, It is a cm ion-, coincidence that Mr Baunat>ne, the Chief Engineer of the Hawe.i, was ( ; hief EntrincLM of the Tarairiki when finally wi coked oil Tauran«, r a in 1873. The Union Company aio feeling the torce of the old sa>in£, "It never lams but it povu-s." llaidly tlnee weeks ayo their !mo sttamei Waimu urn aslio>e at ('ape l'alliser and liad to be put on the slip. The baujuo Sophia Lulu-, ow nod hy them, is now bicakiii'j, up on the wild coast at the Kaipaia IL.uU, and now the Hawea is a total wicek outside Nlw Plymouth Harbour.