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REPORT OP MAIiINE DEPARTMENT.

hecks on wl iid Inquiries have bee: held, &c. — continuet Date of Casualty. Kame of Vessel; also, Age and Class ■when known. Big. Number of Crew. .Number of Passengers. Nature of Cargo. Nature of Casualty. Number of Lives Lost. Place where Casualty took place. Wind. Finding of the Court of Inquiry, Name of Master of Vessel, Direction. Foroe. 1871. Oct. 5 Midlothian Ketch IS 2 General Stranded; total loss. Bar of the Wairoa River. S.E. Fresh gale Master obliged, by weather, to take bar at unfavourable time of lide. John Wilson. „ 14 Leonidas, 14 years. Schooner 79 5 » i) Rock in entrance of Wangape Harbour. S. to S.W. Moderate breeze Want of proper knowledge of Wangape Harbour, of which place there appears to be no chart. William Norris. Sea Breeze, 10 years. Schooner 6 1 Guano i) None Reef at N.W. end of Staarbuck Island. 5 John Austen. t) 25 70 E.S.E. Master blamed for wreck. Loss believed to have been caused either by drunkenness (as in case of Marwell, lost by him on Tiri Tiri about 3 years ago, and for which hia certificate of service was taken away,) or from a desire to show off the capabilities of his vessel, which had the reputation of a smart Bailer. Blackwall, 5 yeai-B. Not. 9 Barge 26 4 1 Ballast Stranded; partial loss. £ mile N. of Fox's River, Middle Mand. Calm. Wind dying away ; vessel became unmanageable in break. Ak'xnnfU, Munro. „ 10 Waihopi, 5 years. Schooner 4 1 >i Stranded; total loss. Entrance to the Wairarapa Lake, Palliser Bay. S.E. Whole gale Driven on a lee shore by stress ol weather. Charles Evans. )J 10 Mo-quiio, 9 years. Ketch 16 2 General Stranded ; total loss. North end of Kapiti Island. S.E. Whole gale Vessel was lost through thickness of weather and strength of ebb tide, for which it does not appear that sufficient allowance was made. Henry Pierce. » 10 Alert, 16 years. 28 3 Timber Stranded; partial loss. N.W. point of Worser's Bay,Wellington Harbour. S.E. » Unavoidable accident; cable parted during heavy S.E. gale. John A. Scott. )) 11 Angelina, 3 years. j) 22 3 1 )) Stranded; total loss. Bill's Cove, Port Underwood. S.E. n Vessel was apparently not well found in anchors or cables. William A. Payne. » 17 Collingwood, 5 years. j) 3 Malt Stranded; partial loss. Dorset Point, Wellington Harbour. N.W. Strong gale Accident, which would probably have been avoided had the master been provided with a chart of the harbour. James Pilkington. 15 Ahuriri, s.s., 7i years, Al for 9 years. Schooner 13 General Stranded; total loss. On a sunken rock near Jones' Head, Waikouaiti Bay. Fresh Gordon McKinnon. „ 22 131 16 S.W. Master blamed for being too close to land ; also for allowing sluice valves to remain open; certificate not suspended because danger not on chart.