SHIPPING DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9682, 5 January 1910, Page 5

SHIPPING DISASTER.

WAIKERE STRIKES A ROCK.

IN DUSKY SOUND.

STEAMER BADIY DAMAGED AND BEACHED.

PASSENGERS AND CREW LANDED SAFELY^

By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 4. The Union Steamship Company received word this evening thßts.s. Waikare struck a rock in Dusky Sound at noon. The r vesßel is reported to be badly damaged, and the engine room and stoke hole full to the water level. The vessel was. beached on Stop Island, the passengers and ciew being safely lauded on the beach oi the mainland. Arrangements are bting made lo despatch the Moura as eatly as possible to-morrow morning for the scene. The Union Company lost no time in communicating with tie Prime Minister, who is now in Invercargil], and as a result H.M.S. Pioneer, lyi: g at the Bluff, is coaling tonight, and her commander hopes to get away to the scene by daylight, to-morrow. He hopes to reach Dusky Sound at noon, and be back agaihat the Bluff with passengers by 7 p.m.The lighthouse keepei at i'uyseg'ur Point has been signalled that the Rosamond, which is due at the Bluff to-morrow morning, is to proceed to Dusky Sound to stand by the Waikare. An ample stock of supplies will be put on board the Moura. Mr Mclntyre, works manager, will be a passenger by the Moura to inspect and consider what is to be done by way of salvage. Wellington has been telegraphed to get the tug Terawhiti and salvage gear ready for to-morrow morning. It is hoped that the Moura will be ready to proceed to Dusky Sound by 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. The Waikare, which was on her second, excursion to the Sound*/, had 150 passencera on board.