SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 945, 5 July 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. Weather Report. July 5-9 a.m., wind, calm ; weather, bright. Barometer, 30 23; thermometer, 36. High Water To-Morrow. Morning, 11.32; aftsrnoon, 11.58. Cleared. —July 5. Amateur, ketch, 29 tons, Neilson, for Akaroa. Sailed —July 5. Woodbine, barque, 252 tons, McLaren, for Newcastle, in ballast. The Kestrel, ketch, finished discharging last night, and loads for Wellington with produce. The Catlm, ketch, loads for Dunedin and Bluff. The Wanganui commences her discharge to-day. The Primera is continuing her discharge at a fair rate, but was much delayed yesterday by scarcity of trucks. The leakage of the schooner Crest of the Wave, already reported, is attributed to her having struck heavily on one of the shingle patches near the Greymouth bar, while she was being towed out, bound for Timaru. The Lady Don, Onward, and Elizabeth Conway, from Lyttelton, were, on their second arrival at Hokitika, safely towed in on one tide. Captain Falconer, of the stranded schooner Mary Ogilvie, was a passenger by the Maori from Greymouth to Dunedin. The schooner Owake arrived safely at Greymouth, after a severe passage from Dunedin. The captain reports having lost a few things off the decks in the last gale, such as kedgc and anchor, gaff-topsail, lines, &c, but the vessel behaved admirably during the gale and terrific sea. The schooner Minnehaha, Capt. James Smith, arrived on the 25th ult. at Auckland from Lyttelton, after a smart run of seven days. The captain reports leaving Lyttelton on the evening of the 18th inst., with strong S.W. wind and heavy sea, which continued until off Flat Point the following evening, when the wind shifted to the N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy cross sea for three days, carrying away jibstay, and doing other damage, while head reaching under close reefed Bails. THE STAR OF THE MERSEY. The following is the text of the judgment given by the Court of Inquiry held at Nelson as to the abandonment of the brig Star of the Mprsey: — " The Court have carefully weighed the evidence given in this case, and they consider that all material points have been fully placed before them. " The conclusion at which the Court have arrived is that the abandonment of the Star of the Mersey on the 16th June was caused by misadventure ; that John Studholme Hodgson, the master, was justified under the circumstances in the course which he took for the protection of the lives of the men under his charge, and that his certificate be returned to him, and that the certificate of Hugh Thomas, the chief mate, be also returned to him. " The Court, however, feel it to be their duty to state that the Nautical Assessor, while concurring in their decision, is of opinion that the master committed an error in judgment in not wearing his ship when she first got into difficulties from baffling winds and an ebb tide at so short a distance from the island of Motu Ngara." On the application of Mr Pitt, the Court ordered that the costs be paid by the Customs authorities, at the same time stating that they regarded the enquiry as a most important and necessary one, and that in ordering it the authorities were only performing what was clearly their duty. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, July 4. Arrived —6 a.m., Hawea, from Lyttelton. Sailed —Enterprise, for Lyttelton. Auckland, July 4. Arrived—l p.m., City of New York, from Sydney.