'A serious collision, involving considerable damage to both vessels concerned, ocoarred on the 30th of October. The scene of the collision was the somewhat, narrow en= franco to Sydney Harbour. Messrs. Me-Jiwraith's Melbourne-owned steamer Cloncurry having received shipments or horses and fodder, was leaving the port en route for Singapore and Calcutta. The Vessel was almost clear of the Heads when, through some cause, she came into collision with the Howard Smith steamer Boverio (also Melbourne-owned), inward bound from Adelaide. The catastrophe took place in broad daylight; the weather was beautifully clear vt the time. Ey Witnesses describe the crash as terrific the Boveric seems to have sustained the Worst damage, as the blites on her port quarter were torn away down to the Tater's edge. At first ske seemed in dan-or of going down, but although the after-Rola was Hooded the bvlkhaad saved her and Kept her afloat. The Cloneurry also Feecived severe damage, having bath her Dows flattened in, some half dozen plates being twisted, and considerable damage done to her anchor gear. Assistance was fortunately at hand in the shape of two steam colliers proceeding outward, but this was not required. Both vessels were able to proceed, one to her wharf, and the Cloncurry to an anchorage below Garden Toland, without assistance. The Boveric is the latest addition to Howard Smith's fleet, and is a ¥ el of 000 tons register, built at Glasvow in 1898. The Cloncurry is an older ship. being built in 1887, and is of about 2.100 tons. She has for some time been employed in M wraith's Eastern trade to Caleutt: Singapore, and atthe time of the collision had on board 100 head of horses, besides shipments of sheep and produce. The Hoven was quite Taku with horses and fodder for man Government. The usual in of course, be held by the New South Wales Department of Navigation.
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