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Return of Wrecks and Casualties to Shipping reported to the Marine Department— continued.

Date of Casualty. Name of Vessel, also Age and Class. Rig. g S Number of '§§ | PassenPSEh Q gers. Nature of Number Place where Casualty occurred. Wind. Decision of Court of Inquiry, &B. Cargo. I Casualty. Lives lost. Direction. Force. Name of Master. 1903. May 9 Do to, s.s. 12 years Schooner 19 Fish .. Damage to propeller 7 miles off Separation Point, Blind Bay Key of propeller worked loose and cut a groove in the shaft, so that the propeller would not work William Arthur Davidant. - 13 Ngaru, 6 years Schooner 66 Timber.. Mast carried away 50 miles westward of Kawhia N. Gale Guy carried away on fore-boom, the boom jibed, the vessel then came to, and the head of the foremast carried away about 6 ft. below the topmast Richard Carroll, cook, was lost overboard, and evidence showed that he was strange in his manner, but no evidence to show how he got overboard. No blame was attachable to master or crew, nor was there anything in the ship herself, or its build or equipment that could have contributed to the casualty Casualty caused by tempestuous weather. No blame attachable to anyone Vessel ran her bow under wharf. Casualty caused by engineer mistaking or.ier to go astern, and going ahead Casualty caused through inability of small steamer to tow vessel up river against wind, which forced her on to a mud-bank A heavy sea struck vessel on 21st, while hove to, damaging her rudder, and causing her to badly. From then until the 23rd, the weather continued very bad. The water in vessel increased to such an extent as to compel master to beach his vessel to save loss of life When on the bar, entering Hokitika River, a sea struck the vessel on the quarter, filling the cabin and flooding the engine-room, causing dynamo and engines to stop, when vessel became disabled and drifted helplessly on to beach. By the same sea the master was washed overboard and drowned. No blame is attachable to crew, and it was auparently the oversight of the master in leaving the cabin-door o,>en which was the primary cause of tne stranding The launch "Waitara" ran into the "Jane Douglas " while she was lying at the wharf. Casualty caused t irough engines of "Waitara" stopping on centre, and re'using to go astern Francis Fletoher. Akaroa, s.s., 8 years Schooner Loss of life only 1 Off Tutukaka Frederick Morgan. 22 43 June 26 8 Tauranga, 15 years Loyalty, s.s., 26 years Cutter .. Cutter .. 12 68 3 4 14 Ballast.. Stranded; total loss Collision with wharf; slight damage Stranded ; slight damage 4 miles S.W. of Sugarloaves, New Plymouth Berth No. 17, on breastwork, Wellington N.W. N. Heavy gale Light .. Louis Fredericksen. Henry Weston Hargraves. 20 Zior, 31 years.. Schooner 63 Produce Mouth of Hokitika River N.E. Fresh .. Christian Andersen. 23 Ada and Eva, 1 year Ketoh .. 136 1 Timber.. Stranded; total loss 1 Gillespie's Beach, 28 miles south of Okarito N.W. Gale .. Peter Anton Peterson.. Emma Sims, 8 years Stranded; partial loss North Beach, near mouth of Hokitika River Patrick Darragh. July 6 Schooner (oilengine) 61 Produce S. Light .. 9 Waitara, s.s , 20 15 Collision ; no damage "1 i Edwin John Booth-. James Jamie son. y.ars Queen's Wharf, Wellington N. 9 Jane Douglas, s »., 37 year -i Schooner 75 General Collision; partial loss Strong breeze