SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Waikato Telegrams. MERCER. The Rangiriri Snagged. The Cargo Saved. Consequent Altered Arrangements. Monday.
We are endebted to Mr E. It, Hunt, manager of the W. S. N. Company, for the following telegram :— , The steamer Rangiriri was snagged at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, three miles below Churchill. The Captain, finding it impossible to keep her afloat, placed her so that she might sink in shallow water. It is not aaticipated^hat there will be much difficulty v ija N toislhig : her. X^frthe cargo was saved. The Bluojiose'ls taKpfr-rfKTthe passenger trade, and has started with ike Twaipa from here this morning for Hamilton and Cambridge. There will be no stoppage of goods traffic. The Bluenose will run twice a week to Hamilton and Cambridge ; the Waipa [between Mercer and the Heads; while the Gymnotus will take up the Alexandra trade, till the steamer Wailcato comes from./ Onehunga, in about a fortnight hence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 491, Issue VIII, 13 July 1875, Page 2
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152SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Waikato Telegrams. MERCER. The Rangiriri Snagged. The Cargo Saved. Consequent Altered Arrangements. Monday. Waikato Times, Volume 491, Issue VIII, 13 July 1875, Page 2
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