She sank off Timaru Road Oakura, on the 5th January 1905.
She was a steel twin-screw, three masted steamer, built in Scotland
in 1884.
She left Onehunga for Wanganui calling at the ports of Raglan and
Kawhia on the way down. She left Kawhia 2pm on Monday the 5th but
the weather worsened and it was very thick and stormy with rain
falling in torrents. About 20 minutes to 12, she struck bottom and
stuck fast.
She was carrying sugar, timber, two carriages and flour and cement
but luckily no passengers. The officers and crew launched a boat
and rowed 7 miles to the New Plymouth breakwater arriving in good
spirits at 6.30am.
The boiler is visible at low tide and what is left of the stern
section is almost at the high tide mark.
The cache is a 10cm pill bottle but not on private land, you do not
have to go over any fences.