NAUTICAL INQUIRIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4011, 30 May 1884, Page 3

NAUTICAL INQUIRIES.

Chkistchuech, This day. An enquiry was held yesterday at Lyttelton, before the Collector of Customs and Captain M'lntyre, nautical assessor, touching the barque Lanarkshire grounding off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, on Aprii 18th. The evidence disclosed that the vessel hung on a sunken reef for twenty hours, but sustained no injury. Tho captain deposed that neither in Findlay's sailing directions for the Southern Pacific, nor on the charts used by merchant vessels, any mention was made of currents, which in his opinion carried him out of his course. The whole of the evidence will be sent to Wellington. The Collector of Customs also held an enquiry touching the loss of one of the crew of the ship City of Sparta on her voyage from Newcastle. The deceased, Alfred Haws, A.8., during a heavy southeast gale on May 21st, was sent with the rest of the watch to make fast the mizentopsail. The deceased fell off the yard overboard, and waa drowned. No assistance could be given without endangering the lives of all on board. Haws was about 25 years old. Ho shipped in London, and was an excellent seaman, but at times reckless in working aloft. At tho time of the accident the ship was running about eleven knots before the gale. The night was very dark and raining.