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iETTJHN o: reel b on wl iicl quiries iave ieen c.— com 'muet Date of Casualty. Name of Vessel; also, Age and ClaBS when known. Rig. Number of I Nature of Cargo. Nature of Casualty. Number of Lives Lost. Place where Casualty happened. Wind. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master. c PassenCr6W- gers. Direction. Force. 1877. Sept. 29 Sarah Pile, 13 years Brigantine 115 8 Hewn Timber Stranded ; partial loss Buller Bar, East I Bank, Westport N.N.W. Fresh breeze Casualty caused by master crossing the bar before the signals were put up for him to do so Casualty caused by tug-rope becoming slack when rounding North Spit Casualty caused by vessel striking on a boulder in the trough of the sea wdien crossing Patea bar Casualty caused by baflling winds and the current Vessel supposed to have capsized in a heavy Bquall David Bissett. Oct. 11 Lizzie Guy, 6 years Jane Elkin 12 years Schooner 93 Timber Stranded ; partial loss Stranded; total loss North Spit, Hokitika River, Westland Patea River bar S.W. Moderate breeze Henry Priest. .-, 14 Ketch 25 3 Timber ... S.S.E. Moderate breezej Peter Grey Leslie. » 18 Torea, 2J years Clan Alpine, 1 year Schooner, F. and A. Schooner 70 6 Timber Stranded ; pari ial loss Total loss; supposed capsized Masterand one seaman washed overboard Collision ; partial damage Stranded ; partial loss si mppose 4 (all hands) 2 Off Cape Campbell Reef ed Supposed about S.E. of Kaikoura Penin- ) eula, some 15 or 20 miles Lat. 42° 7' S., long. 128° 4' E. 19 miles distant N.E. by N. from Saint Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight Arrow Rock entrance of Nelson Harbour N.N.W. Nearly calm John Grundy. Supposed about Oct. 24 .40 4 N.Z. produce supposed 4 (all hands) James Smart. Nov. 1 Emma, 10 years Barque 285 11 Sugar 2 S.W. Whole gale A heavy sea struck the vessel, and washed the Captain and an A.B. overboard William Mangles Stockley. 4 County of Peebles, 2 years Lucie Marie Ship 1614 33 30 General^ 3 S.W. by S. The County of Peebles came into collision with a French vessel, the " Lucie Marie," in the English Channel, no light being seen on board the " Lucie Marie " Vessel carried on to the rock by a sudden puff of wind when sweeping out of the harbour with the ebb tide Casually caused by vessel missing stays when entering harbour William Fordyee. Midge, 23 years Cutter 17 General merchandise Timber w. Light air Henry Eure. M 6 2 it 10 Waihopai, 10 years Schooner 44 3 Stranded ; total loss Stranded ; partial loss Reef near to Penearrow Head, entrance to Wellington Harbour South Head, Lyttelton Harbour N.W. Half gale Peter Cuvron. jj 17 Empress of China, 3 years Barquentine 255 9 Ballust Baflling The casualty was caused by a sudden lull in the wind when the vessel had no steerage on her, when the swell of the sea carried her on to the rocks. Vessel missed stays, and went on to the rocks Casualty caused by vessel, when very light, attempting to beat up the harbour in squally weather Casualty caused by the wind suddenly dropping, and then veering round to another quarter, while the vessel was entering the river Casualty caused by cable parting through stress of weather Alfred Griggs. Dido, 5 years Dolly Varden, 5 years Cutter Machinery Stranded ; partial loss Stranded ; partial Totaranui Rock, in i Blind Bay Tewai Point, entrance ) to Bluff Harbour S.E. Strong breeze Alexander McFarlane. George Williamson. 20 ISO I 2 23 Cutter 20 2 BallaBt W.S.W. Fresh gale >ee. 9 Colleen Bawn. 15 years Schooner 2'J 3 Timber Stranded ; partial loss Stranded ; total loss South Spit, at entrance of Wanganui Biver, Cook's Strait, West Coast, N.I., N.Z. Timaru, about a cable's length north of Government landing servico W.N.W. Fresh Henry Waller. Craig Ellachie, 15 years Brig Coal E.S.E. Gale Magnus S. Meredith. 22 226