LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

DEPARTURE 3.

August 17— Nlkau, 6.5. (11.10 a.m.), 248 tons, Hav 1, for Nelson August 17—Mana, s.s. (11.40 a.m.), 134 tons, Sproule, for Picton August 17—Queen o{ the South, s.s. (12.5 p.m.), 198 tons, Harvey, for Foxton

i THE INVERNESS FIEE. On Thursday - morning a nautical enquiry into'the loss of the barque Inverness was commenced at Auckland before Mr. E. C. Cutten, 8.11.', Captain McKenzie, and Professor Worley." Mr. Selwyn Mays appeared for the Marine Department, and Mr. A. E. Shelton for the owners and master of ttio ship. The Inverness was a steel barque of 1817 tons, owned in Cardiff. The master was Captain John Hugbcs. The Inverness carried a crei* of 20. In his evidence the captain stated that the , vessel carried a cargo of nitrates from Chile to Durban, and after discharge and thorough cleaning loaded 2500 tons of steam coal, for Child. He' then gave particulars of the trip and the tempeature of the coal taken on various days. On the 24th April the temperature was 124 degrees. Dense clouds of yellow smoke aud vapour came through the main ventilator, and the pitch in the seams of $be deck. began to bubble. Knally the crew abandoned the ship, and after standing by until the sljlp was practically enveloped in flames, set a course for Eapa, Island. The distance of 671 miles to the island was covered in a week, and the crew remained in this place until the 15th June, when they were brought off by another vessel. The enquiry was continued yesterday

PERSONAL. Mr. A. T. Blomfield has taken Mr. H. T. Dovfer's place ■as wireless operator of the Moiiowai .. ..

The Hinemoa was working Pnysegur Point yesterday, and is expected at Bluff to-day. She will-sail on Monday for West Coast Sounds and Wellington

The work of fitting the Hazel Repton with a new centre-board will be carried out at the King's Wharf. J After a very protracted trip from Wellington via Kaikoura and Akaroa, the auxiliary schooner Gisbome readied Port Chalmers at lii in on Wednesday. The schooner left Wellington oii the 20th' July,' and was severely buireteil about by fierce southerly gales in Cook Strait, which compelled her to seek shelter lit Kaikoura for some days