WRECK OF THE GAIRLOCH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1903, Page 2

WRECK OF THE GAIRLOCH.

Tbe rough weather on Wsdnoeday night and Thursday did not have much 1 effect ou the vessel, si houjjh it p e- 1 vented salvage operations being car'i<d ' out. An attempt t> l»tid the landau < by mc'tins of a raft had to beabindoned ! for th 3 present. IcUfeirtd that the i gig which was on bo ir.i has got adrift, i Numerous visitors from town wee 1 at the scene of the wrrck oa Thursd y af ernooo.. A pir'.y of <) to assist in salvage op r.aioni aU arrived and are camped on the bea :li near the wrock. i According to information OJtaicud from Oakura on Thursday evening tbe Gair'och w.s in much the itrnn position. and had stood the strain of tbe htavy seasexc.-piio lally well. She was the first steamer to connect with tha Wellington-New Plym< u'h i railway service, the late Mr John Balance beiog a passenger on the ocoa»iao. Among tha list of ve;aeU wracked on this part of the coast are the Lod Worsley, in tha early '6o's, the Wanaka, the Duuedi i (lost with nil hands), and the L zzie Bill, while the Vent nor struck on a reef south of Cape Egraont and foundered off Hokiacga Heads.