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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4182, 15 August 1874, Page 2

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"WANGANUI. August 14.—Arrived, 9.30 a.m. : Manawatu, from AVellington. NAPIER. August 14.—Sailed, 11 a.m.: Rangatira, for Wellington. Arrived, 1.15 p.m.: Fairy, from "Wellington. FOXTON. August 14.—Arrived, 10 a.m.: Napier, from "Wellington. LYTTELTON. August 14.—Cleared: Wennington, for London ; Ballochmyle, for San Francisco. The barque Australind arrived from Newcastle yesterday morning, with a cargo of coals and niaize. The p.s. Luna, after landing her passengers yesterday, steamed down the harbor to Somes* Island, and brought off a number of the immigrants who Lately arrived by the Eeichstag. The p.s. Luna, Captain Fairchild, arrived in harbor yesterday at half-past ten, after an absence from this port of several weeks, on a cruise round the lighthouses, provisioning, &c. She left Auckland on her return on the Bth inst. at noon ; called at Kawau, Tauranga, "White Island, East Cape, and Poverty Bay. Arrived at Napier at 7.30 a.m. on the 13th, and sailed again at mid-day, arriving as above. Fine weather was experienced during the trip. Messrs. J. "W. Ploos van Amstel and Co., agents for the Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company, have received information that the steamer Atjeh left Batavia for Melbourne, via Adelaide, on the 22nd July. She has 150 tons of cargo on board for Adelaide, and 1300 tons for Melbourne and Sydney. She has accommodation for 21 first-class passengers, and 500 steerage. The steamer is expected to leave Melbourne about the 15th August en route for Sydney, Brisbane, Port Darwin, and Java. The Steamer Patebson.—The following appears in the Taranaki Herald as the judgment of the Court of inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Paterson at "Waitara:—The causa causans of the accident to the Paterson lies on the surface. She was too large a boat for the river, and on the occasion in question it is evident that the north channel was too narrow and too shallow for safety. It also appears to the Court that the signalman Cameron is between the horns of this dilemma :—Either there was a fresh in the river when he hoisted the signal for the steamer to take the bar, or there was no fresh but tho tide had ebbed at the time the vessel struck. If the latter be the case, then it is obvious that Cameron should have ordered the steamer in a little sooner, so that she might have got in with the last of the flood tide, instead of waitig until the water had commenced to run out. It seems to the Court, however, that there is a preponderance of evidence in favor of there having been a fresh in the river on the 13th July. It is proved that the captain and officers did all that lay in their power to save the vessel, and it is self-evident that the hoisting of the signal to take the bar relieves them of all responsibility on account of tho casualty that ensued.