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

Date of Vessels Name, Casualty. A 8 e ' and class - HiK 55 ?. Number of is |g : I Passe,,«H g gers. I Nature of Number of Lives lost. Place where Casualty occurred. Wind. Finding of Court of [nqnirj . Name of Muster Cargo. Casualty . 1910. Aug. 10 . Orakei. 28 years Schooner 32 :i Ballast Stranded ; no damage New mi ranee, Nelson Harbour Calm .. Wind dropped when vessel was passing J. M. Etheridge. through the entrance, and the strong current carried her ashore A steerage passenger named J. H. Brotchie ('. ('lift, jumped overboard and was drowned. The ship was promptly stopped, and a boatlowered, but he had disappeared. Supposed to have been a ease of suicide , The " Rosamond " had moored at the wharf, Waltci Scott. when the " Kotuku. intending to berth 8 W 1 ' '1 1 alongside, was carried by the strong current into the " Rosamond," and the " Kotukn's " I anchor caused some damage to the other \ vessel's plates J. G. Watson. N.W. Moderate Valve-spindle of I.P. engine broke, and vessel C. F. Sempli put into Wellington foi repaiis „ 15 Warrinioo. s.s., Schooner 19 years 2,076 General Loss of life .. 1 Lat. 37° 33' S. Long. 163° 4f>' E. ' „ 20 Kotuku. s.s., 11 Schooner years Rosamond, s.s., Schooner 27 years Navarino, s.s., 3 Schooner 862 20 1 Coal .. ( ollision ; no ' damage „ 20 4ii2 21 General Collision; J slight damage / Accident i o machinery ; damage, £210 Stranded : no damage Wharf. < >nehunga Lat. 41= 58' S., Long. 168° 44' W. Tahuna Beach, Nelson Harbour „ 22 :i.:t()(i 33 Coal . . years „ 26 32 3 Ballast.. N.W. Strong.. The"Orakei" was stranded through default .1. M. Ktheridge. and neglect of the master in failing to anchor the vessel properly, and neglecting to place any one on watch. The default and neglect were due to intoxication on the part of the master, whose certificates as master (home trade) and as first mate (foreign-going) were suspended for twelve months, and he was ordered to pay the cost of the inquiry, £13 14s. 8d. The term of suspension of his certificates was afterwards reduced to six months N.W. Strong.. When oil' Cape of Good Hope the vessel ex- A. Aslakaen. perienced a heavy storm, and general damage was caused by seas breaking on board S.E. Heavy The jib-pennant carried away, and the vessel John Anderson. gale missed stays and was carried on to the rocks W. Moderate Stranded on the bar owing to insufficiency of G. T. Dixon. water, but was got off on 3rd October without damage Calm .. Struck the Iron Pot " bridge owing to the I). A. Sharp, engineer going full ahead instead of full astern W.N.W. Fresh The intermediate shaft broke owing to internal John Flynn. breeze | flaw in the metal Orakei, 2H years Schooner i I Sept. 1 Glenshee, 28 Barque s:(] 1.5 General Damage to bulwarks, &e. Lat. 40° 39' S., Long. 20° 48' E. ., 11 Felicity, 25 years Ketch .. General Stranded ; total loss Stranded ; no damage Entrance. Wellington Harbour Bar, Patea River 24 3 I „ 13 Mana, s.s., 24 years Schooner 77 10 General „ Hi Phantom, s.e., 19 Ketch .. 1 6 I Trawler Collision ; trifling damage '. Port Ahuriri years General .. 20 Kotuku, β-e., 10 years Schooner 662 20 Broken shaft; damage, t.W Lat. 38' 20' S., Long. 173° 28' E.