( Waimate Times )
It seems &tranpre that neither the captain nor any of the officers of the steamer should have been awaie that there were two boat harbours, whero all might have been safely landed, within three or four miles on cither side of the scene of the wreck, and it also seems strange that a line was not sent to the shore as it appears would have been possible, as several persons managed at different times to reach it. Apparently the first cause of the disaster was an error of judgment on the part of the Captain in altering the vessel's course, and that of the subsequent loss of life snems to be traceable to the cause we have stated, viz., ignorance of the coast. Surely masters, at anyrate, of Colonial steamers should be better posted up than this. There is also an evident necessity for a light near this exceptionally dangerous spot, vessels having to pass between an island whose coast is a Scylla, and the reefs of the mainland, which are a very Charybdis, and a mistake of a very little in a vessel's course immediately placing her in great jeopardy.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1385, 19 May 1881, Page 3
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193(Waimate Times ) Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1385, 19 May 1881, Page 3
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