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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3454, 13 September 1879, Page 2

There was no shipping business transacted at the port yesterday. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday as follows :— lndications glass will farther fall, and wind between ease and norrh and northwest ; sea increase. Early yesterday morning the work of discharging the cargo of the p.s Charles Edward on to the North Beach was commenced, and continued till all her cargo was conveyed on shore. At tide time yesterday evening every effort was made to remove her from her awkward position, bat in vain, for although her head was free, she hung by the stern. As tbe tide is now making, it is to be hoped she will get off to day. | Two small vessels showed up in the roadstead yesterday. An action was comme ced in the Supreme Court, Melbourne, on 20th instant, in which the owner of tbe Martha and Jane, schooner (Alexander Logan), sought to recover from the Derwent and 1 amar Assurance Company the amount of the policy of insurance granted by them on the hull of thin vessel, which j foundered off the north coast of Tasmania. The plaintiff asserted that the ciuae of the foundering of the vessel was a leak which, she sprang suddenly, but the defendant company replied that, in the first place, Bhe had been scuttled, and that, further, when she was sinking no attempt was made to save her. The evidence on both sides was concluded the following day, when the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the policy without interest — L 1046 17s. A letter has been published by the South Australian Begister, referring to the Marine Board enquiry into the grounding of the Kaiahome, a portion of which we give here: — "On the «vidence taken by the Board, they find that it was attributable to 'an eiror of judgment on the part of the maßter,' but deem it unnecessary to take any further actin; they, however, give no reason for this act of clemency. The evidence disclosed two other facts'— l. That after the accident the captain gave way to intemperance, but as nobody complains of this they do not feel it their duty to take any further proceedings. 2 '''hat after the ship was got afloat her cables were too rotten to hold her, and consequently s'. c had to put to sea without discharging. No notice whatever is taken of this small matter, although Bivoli Bay nas thereby suffered ia reputation from a feeling that now exists, that it is not a fit place for anything but small schooners and ketches. Ihe result of this enquiry f ally confirms the feeling long felt as to the need of some reform in our Marine Board."