PORT ELLIOT WRECK.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17997, 14 February 1924, Page 16

PORT ELLIOT WRECK.

FINDING OF NAUTICAL COURT,

(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) Feoruaiy 13,

Tho finding oi uie uauticai enquiry ieijatamg trie loss vi uit> l-'orfc x>-.j.Gu ucuvcicd vo-da-y. Xiao -Court w-is of opinion that the wreck was mainly due to tue eet inshore, which altccted the course oi the vessel as it approached Hast Cape, ana that the master wau not aware ot mis influence and tnereloie not in a position to provide against it. Xhe muster was, m the circumstances, juslined in -assuming that the light reported to him was the Jt>ast Cape light, though in iact it was a bush nre, snowing 'at intervals. X'ho Court was not prepared to say if the casualty was duo to, or' contributea to<' by any wrongful act. or default of the master, or any 01 the officers or crew. The certificates ot the master and third officer were returneS.

PORT OF TIMARU.Arrived. Holmdale. from Oamaru. •tiaiuo, Irom uaJiiaiu. Sailed. Holmdale, for Lyttelton. Kaiuo, lor Hxpected Arrivals. Durham, from St. John, to-day. tort Sydney, liom .Lonaon, to-day. Canadian Cruiser, from Xiyiteiton, to-mor-row. Uorinna, from Oamaru, Friday. Cormtlne.. lrom l_.yttenon, liday. Atua, livm 'JJuneain baturaay. • Cornwall, irom Dunedin, Saturday. Uale, li om Oamaru, Saturday.. Storm, from Lyttelton, Xuesaay, Kaitangata, from JJuuedin, Feuruary 21st. Svarfcen, lrom Liunedin, February 2lst. Calm,, lrom Oamaru, February 22nd. •Paparoa, March 4th. X'rtivo3o, from Newport News, March. City of Dunedin, lrom Nev York, March. Xrovosa., from Newport News, March. •Nutria. The HoLmdaio arrived from Oamaru yesterday and saued lor .Liytieuon, Wellington, and ivai-ganui. Xhe Ikamo gjt in yesterday from Oamaru, to load lor Xjyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and Gislxjrne, lor wnich porta she sailed later in the day. Xiie •Cormii.a is due from Oamaru' to-mor-row, to k'ad lor Lyttelton, Wellington, Weiton and !New Plymouth. The Atau is due irom Dunedin to-morro:v, to take in cargo for Wellington and Auckland, sailing via Lyttelton. Tlio Cornwall i 3 expected here on Saturday, to lift cargo for the United Kingdom.