WRECK OF A LINER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2

WRECK OF A LINER.

THE MAOIU LOST NEAR CAPETOWN NO PASSENGERS ABOARD. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, August d. The Sliaw-Savill liner .Maori, bound for Lyttelton, was inakcd at Duiker Point, near Capetown. The Maori, which coaled at Capetown on Wednesday, had 110 passengers aboard. Lloyds' report states that the vessel is broken up and that the cargo is afloat. Reutcr reports that as far as is at present known two persona aboard the .Maori were drowned, and that nine landed. VESSEL SINKS IN FOLK .MINUTES. I SPLENDID DISCIPLINE. MOUNTAINOUS SEAS. FORTY-SEVEN DROWNED. FIREMAN'S HEROIC WORK. Received (i, 11.15 p.m. ' London, August (1. \ The Daily Mai's CH|x-t»wn cones- . pondent stales lini, tin. Maori struck . (he rock at DuL.'r Point 40 minutes af- [ ter leaving Capetown. She sauk in four ■ minutes.

The discipline of the crew was magnificent. The cnptjiin ordered the S5 men aboard to man three boats.

These lost sight of each other in the darkness.

That of the chief ollicer, Reed, with 15 sailors, rowed in the open sea until daybreak, struck a roek and capsized when attempting to land. Eight men struggled through the surf. The rest were drowned. The sliattcred remains of another boat were picked up. Hope for the other 47 officers and men is now abandoned, the tugs reporting it is impossible for them to survive in the mountainous sea.

Tlic saved include Reei)„ Enjgince Keonan, Boaswain Stewart, Hclmsmai Stillwell uiul a lirontaii named Stewart

The latter displayed magailicent galiaiilry. He nwaui 80 yards in the boiling surf, though already exhausted, and saved Stillwell. He then returned and rescued a lireinnn. He linally sought to bring in the refrigerating engineer, Hutchinson, but the latter sank. Stewart readied shore with difficulty. The .Maori was valued at £40,000. Tlie cargo, which was largely of steel rails',, was valued at £120,000. SCENE OF THE WRECK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. Captain Kcinpsoii, of the Slinw, Sa-vill Company'* liner Athenic, referring to the wreck of the Maori, says Duiker Point i»' a place where fogs are very prevalent and where a strong current urns to the northward. This would he on the starboard side of the Maori. The current, he says, sweeps righi up into the South Atlantic

Duiker Point itself is' a continuation uf the Table Mountain range and is very rocky, with simp pinnacles of rocks. The coast thereabouts is notable for iis wrecks.

The Maori had hardly aiiy cargo for Wellington. She was bringing £4500 worth of iron pipes for the Duuedili Drainage Hoard through Messrs John Duthie and Co., of Wellington. The latter are fully insured. DUNEDIN CARGO. Duuedin, Friday. The Maori has a large quantity" of Dunediu cargo, including a complete stock for Arthur Harnett's' aew drapery (stahlishment, which he bought in tendon two months ago and insured in the New Zealand office; also plates for the ferry (steamer Wuikanac. Duuedin, Last Night. hi connection with the wiei-k of the Maori, it is slated that several Idea) Insurance offices will suffer afi a result of holding risks on the cargo, while wholesale and retail merchants and others will be put to considerable inconvenience and loss through delay in recciviii" shipments ill place of those lost The Maori had 4100 tons' of cargo for Dunedm, including; transhipments for Bluff, (tenia™ and Timaru, and IiOO tons for Lyttelton. also about (100 tons of steel rails for 4lcauty Point, Tasmania. A considerable part of the cargo consisted of the new season's soft goods for warehouses. Herbert Hayncs and Co. had a considerable quantity for their lliiuedin and Invercargill business, and l lie D.S.A. had 70 or SO cases on hoard valued.at about £2OOO. Butterworth Ilros. had about £2OO or .capo worth of goods and Ring, Harris and Co. about IN> lons. The only loss sustained by he Drainage Board will be the inspection feee at the manufacturing cud but us- operations in connection with rais!"K t«e main will lie seriously delayed.' 1 lates for the new ferry steamer being limit to replace the Matariki, which was destroyed by fire some months ago, were on the Maori, but the directors haved cabled to Australia with the oh-1 pet of getting a supply there.

Mr. Newton King, local agent for the company, states that the Maori left J'.ngland on July 5 and was due to arrive at Dimcdin on August 27. The Maori is a vessel of 5317 tons. She «as one of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's) smallest steamers trading to New Zealand in point of coinage, the only others with a smaller tonnnge being the Pakeha, with 4331 and the Rangitirn, 4044. The Union lompany also possess a atcamcr nam- « iol 1 ! 1101 '' °' u I)ein « a turu 'ne vessel of M'Jtt tons.