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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 998, 7 October 1871, Page 2

The s.B. Tararua arrived in the Hokitika rbaidstead about sundown, last evening, with the Suez mail on board, and was tendered at two o'clock this morning by the s.s. Waipara. She will come on here this forenoon, and be tendered at 1 p.m., by the s.s. Dispatch. Weather generally good and bars the same was the telegraphic report from the various stations yesterday. Barometer was highest at Wellington, 29.92 ; and lowest at the Bealey, 27.41. Thermometer was highest at Napier and Christchurch, 54 j and lowest at the Bealey, 46. The three-masted schooner Garibaldi, after a long detention, sailed yesterday afternoon for Hokitika with a cargo of coal. The schooner Gleaner, Captain Leßrun, was towed out yesterday by the p.s. Dispatch, and sailed with a fair wind for Clarence River, N.S.W. The p.s. Charles Edward sailed for Westport and Nelson on the afternoon's tide yes- , terday. Messrs M 'Meek an, Blackwood, and Co.'s s.B. Alhambra left Nelson at 1.50 p..m. yesterday for tha Grey. She may therefore be looked for in time for this afternoon's tide, and is announced to sail at one o'clock. Further particulars of the loss of the ship White Jacket, of which we had a brief announcement by telegram, are to hand by Mauritius papers, which were received here by the barques Alma and Kalahoine. The White Jacket was a ship of 1148 tons, 12 years old, and was bound from Bombay to Hull with a cargo of linseed. On the voyage Rodriguez was sighted at 1 p.m. on May 23rd, the weather being fine and .clear, ana at twenty minutes pasta p.m. she struck. on the reef and became a total wreck. A court of inquiry as to the cause leading the the wreck of the ship was held at Mauritius, and the evidence of Captain Michael Johnson, master of the ship; Mr M 'Gibbon, chief officer ; Mr Mackenzie, second officer ; Peter Passett, A.8., the man at the wheel ; Henry M'Kenzie, A.8., the look out man ; and Edward Lawson, the steward, was taken. The evidence went to prove thatthe ship was lost through the most glaring negligence, the captain at the time she struck being intoxicated and incapable of attending to his duty. The finding of the Board was that the vessel was lost chiefly by defaut of the master, and suspended his certificate for 18 months. The certificate of the second mate was also suspended for six months, for incapacity and ignorance; and the chief officer was severely reprimanded for the careless and irregular manner in which he kept his log-book, and for bis want of decision and promptitude when relieving the second mate shortly before the vessel ran on the reef. — Melbourne Argus.