TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1091, 25 April 1863, Page 5

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"No Protection" in our next. SALTWATER CHEEK. TO TIIK EDITOII OF THE LYTTEI/TOtT TIMES. Sir I wish to inform shipowners not to seni their vessels to Saltwater Creek, as the bar shift every other day, aiul makes it very <■ ® vessels taking it. On the 31st March the haig Alert when taking the bar grounded and lummere. over on the north spit, and was compelled to du charge her cargo before the vessel could By this time she was making a great deal of watu The same tide, about an hour after, the Mar -Jackson took the bar, and when a hundred yau from the first stake, grounded, and was left in abou ! a foot of water, and when the next sea came sh ran in on the south spit; the following one s leg( ° ff lTe in an account in your issue of the 22nd instan that there is from 12 to 14 feet ot water on the bar how then was it possible for the Alert and the Ma Jackson to ground when they only draw from thre to four feet of water. Owners of vessels seeing tli account in your issue of 22nd stating from - o feet of water on the bar, might be led astray, an the result might be the loss ot a great deal <; property ' JOHN ROBINSON.