S.S. TAINUI IN DANGER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2

S.S. TAINUI IN DANGER.

(BY TELEUIIAI'U —rKE*.S ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Friday. Tub Union Company's steamer Taiuui, Gapt. (Jromerty, hud a narrow escape from being wrecked olf Capo l'alliaer yesterday, when thick foggy weather came on. The land being scarcely visible when the c»pt.itn and chief olticer, who were on tbe bridge, noticed breakers ahead, and although the engines were immediately put on full speed astern, she touched lightly on some rocks. She glided off again in five minutes, and was making a. little water in the forward ballast tank. She then headed for Wellington, which she reached in about 33' hours.

Mr N. I. Hunt, of Oorton, requires tenders for the removal of a house. I'kksidknt Eliot will accept thanks of all husbands ; he docs not believe that women should be allowed to lecture to men. The first teloscopo of Galileo was niado from part of a lead organ pip?, in each end of which was cemented a suitable spectacle glass. ]Ji(. Omvki! Wknuki.i, Houikn has presented the Buston Medic:il Library his large collection of valuable inoiiicul ami surgical books. The Hon. W. North, oldest .son of Lord North, has commenced business as a butcher in the village of Foxton, near Bandbury, where the family seat iy situated.