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

Date of Vessel's Name, Casualty. A §e, and Class. Ki| S3 G3 ac *Z a Number of Jumber of | PassenQ gers. | I Cargo. Natu Nature of ure of Casualty. Number _ of Lives lost. Place where Casualty occurred. Win Direc- i tion. Wind. nd. Force. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master. an I • 19: lar. >> 1910. lar. 8 „ 15 „ 30 110. : 8 Manaroa, s.s., Schooner 78 11 13 years 15 John -\nderson Schooner 36 5 4 30 Duchess, s.s., ; Cutter 95 6 8 13 years 30 Cobar, s.s., 7 Cutter .. 58 , 5 35 y 7 ears 30 Koi, s.s., 4 years ; Schooner 53 31 Thomas King.. Dredge 100 5 Not regis-: tered) i ■ General Stranded; damage, £40 General Damaged propeller (trifling) Ferry-boat, Collision ; slight damage Ferry-boat| Collision ; darn- -* ! age, £150 Live-stock Foundered .. and general Foundered; no damage I i Entrance, Waikawa Bay, Nelson Long-look-out Point, . Lyttelton Harbour Off Point Jerningham, Wellington Harbour N.W. Light .. N. Fresh breeze S. Gale .. • When entering the bay the vessel grazed an : Richard Hart. outlying rock at Hole-in-the-rock Point The propeller struck some submerged object W. M. and twisted one of the blades Cameron. The vessels came into collision on the evening James Jones, of 30th March, the '.' Cobar" sustaining damage which necessitated her being beached. The Court was of opinion that the master of each vessel was equally in fault, and suspended their certificates for J. T. A. L. twelve months, and ordered each of them Williams, to pay half the costs of the inquiry The vessel was struck by a succession of blind Charles E. rollers and thrown on her beam-ends, when Scully, she filled and sank. The Court held that no one was to blame for the casualty The dredge broke from, her moorings during W. J. Newtoi a heavy gale, and drove against the wharf, (Harbourwhere she filled and sank master). Cutter .. Schooner At entrance to Nelson Harbour Dredge New Plymouth Wharf S.E. Gale ..