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Evening Star, Issue 3197, 20 May 1873, Page 2

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HIGH WATER To-morkow. Heads 1 Port Chalmers I Dunedin 11.10 p.m. 1 I- impjp.

PORT CHALMERS. . arrived.

May 20— Beautiful Star, 140 tons, Hart, from Lyttelton and intermediate porta. Passengers : Miss Thacker, Messrs Thacker Moir Williams, I r avill, Morrisson, Knox, Kelly, M Gill, the Rev. Mr Gilbert; four in the steerage. Wanganui, 170 fcon<», Renner, from the North. Passengers: Messrs Marshall, CampbeJ, and Legne; one in the steerage.

SAILED.

May 20—Sydney Griffiths, 333 tons, Knarston, for Newcastle. Hadda, 320 tons, Henncksen, for Newcastle.

CUSTOM HOUSE, DUNEDIN. This Day. inwards.

Beautiful Star, 146 tons, Hart, from Timaru. Pretty Jane, 101 tons, Christian, from Molynettx.

OUTWARDS,

Taranaki, 299 tons, Wheeler, for Lyttelton* Wallahi, 101 tons, Leys, for Bluff. Mermaid, 12 tons, Mussen, for Waikouaiti. Jessie, 38 tons, Bowers, for Oamaru. James Paxton, 61 tons, Robertson, for Riverton.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Lady Bird, for Northern Ports, May 27 Excelsior, for Auckland, early Wild Deer, for London, early William Davie, for London, early Lutterworth, for London, May 24 Wanganui, for Northern Ports, May 22 Hope, for Moeraki, May 23 _ Tararua, for Northern Ports, May 29 Beautiful Star, for Lyttelton, May 21. Pretty Jane, for Port Molyneux, May 30 Claud Hamilton, for Bluff, May 30 Storm Bird, for Bluff, May 23 Samson, for Oamaru, May 23

Teasels in Port Chalmers Bay this day Ships: Lutterworth, Wild Deer. Barques : Eleanor, Frowning Beauty, P.C.E. Brig: Thomas and Henry. At the railway pier Ships ; Euterpe, Oberon, William Davie.

The Sydney Griffiths and Hadda were towed out this morning, bound for Newcastle, in ballast. , _ T The barque Formosa, from Newcastle, was signalled from the Heads this forenoon. The Geelong will bring her up during the afternoon. The steamer Wanganui arrived in Port Chalmers at noon to-day. Capt. Renner reports leaving Napier oh the 14th, at 7. 30 a.m., and arrived at Wellington at 9.30 a.m. on the 15th, after experiencing strong head winds; left Wellington at 4.30 p.m. the same evening; arrived at Lyttelton at 8.30 p.m. on the 16th; left at 2.30 p.m. on the 18th, and arrived at Timaru at 8 am. on the 19th ; sailed again at 10.30 p.m., arriving at Port Chalmers as above. We thank her purser for files. The Harbor Company’s steamer Beautiful Star arrived in Port Chalmers at 10 o’clock this morning, and berthed alongside the Lutterworth, where she will discharge 800 bags of grain. The Star left Lyttelton on Friday night at 8 p.m. ; called in at Okain’s Bay, and took a quantity of fruit; remained there till Saturday morning, arriving at Akaroa in the forenoon; left on Sunday night, and arrived at Timaru at 7.30 o’clock the following morning ; loaded and left again the same night, arriving here as above. Fine weather was experienced during the passage, with the exception of last night, when a stiff breeze, with heavy sea, was met with. We thftnjr her steward for Lyttelton files.

INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE SHIP ALSAGEB.

The evidence relative to the loss of the ship Alsager having closed at the Auckland Police Court, his Worship Mr T. Beckham gave the following decision, founded upon the evidence brought Before the Court in the late inquiry “From the evidence adduced, the Alsager ran on a reef at Maiden Island. A survey was held, which reported the vessel seaworthy. The master took in 1,200 tons of guano (draught 18 feet), the vessel making a small quantity of •water. She left for Hamburg via Cape Horn on the sth February. When at sea a few days the lsak increased seriously, which induced the ‘master to for Australia. On the morning of the 3rd of March the water again increased so rapidly that the pumps could not keep it under, when it was discovered that the crew'had attempted to scuttle the ship by boring three auger boles in her sides. After the auger holes had been plugged up the leak did not materially increase. Had the vessel been kept on her voyage towards Tonga, instead of being hove-to all night, she might have reached that port, The ship was abandoned on the 4th March, twenty-five miles from the Island of Fan, There is no evidence to prove the ship The boats were sold at Tonga. Taking into consideration the surrounding circumstances, and the difficult position the master was placed in, I think it is not advisable to withhold the master’s certificate. Captain Clayton, the Nautical Assessor, concurs with the decision.” Mr M'Kellar applied for costs, and after the question had been fully discussed, the Court reserved its judgment on this point.