The vessel is reported to be badly damaged, and the engine room and stokehold are full to the water level.
She was beached at Stop Island, the passengers and crew being safely landed on the beach of the mainland.
Arrangements are being made to despatch the Moura as early as possible this morning to bring the passengers back to Dunedin.
The Union Company lost no time in communicating with the Prime Minister, now in Invercargill, and as a result H. M. S. Pioneer, lying at the Bluff, was coaling last night, and her commander hoped to get away to the scene of the wreck by daylight this morning.
He hopes to reach Dusky at noon and be back again at the Bluff with the passengers by 7 o'clock in the evening.
The lighthouse at Puysegur Point has been signalled that the Rosamond, which is due at the Bluff this morning, is to proceed to Dusky Sound to stand by the Waikare.
An ample stock of supplies will be put on board the Moura.
All branches have been advised that everybody is safe, and Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobart have been cabled to the same effect.
Mr McIntyre, 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 her salvage gear ready for this morning.
• Mr G. G. Burnes, president of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, has received the following telegram from the Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs:
"Re open season for godwit: I have no evidence to show that godwit is a nuisance, or even plentiful, in Southland, and would suggest that Acclimatisation Societies support me in maintaining a close season during 1910 as provided by Parliament.
"The necessity for this legislation is known to all sportsmen."
The reason for the telegram (says the Southland Times), it may be explained, is that Mr Burnes, on Friday last, received a petition, signed by 57 shooting men of Southland, asking that representation be made to have 1910 declared an open season for godwit.
• The Mataura Ensign states that on swampy land when dredge washing down is in progress a large quantity of shot is always met with as the result of the shooting of game on the swamps.
Naturally the heavy shot sinks through the perforated plates together with the gold, and there it remains until the mats are removed and washed.
- ODT, 5.1.1910.
