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Kumara Times, Issue 1092, 31 March 1880, Page 4

The. Glasgow Herald, January 9fch, haathe ■bowing in reference to the four-masted tap Benares. After an inquiry into the jose of the stranding of the ship Benares, f Glasgow, on the bar of Otago Harbor, [ew Zealand, on the 21st July, 1879, the . that the inquiry disclosed a tales of mistakes and errors of judgment, |yWaß a mistake to send a vessel of the Wires draught of water to that harbor in to present state of the bar, and it blamed ftptain Inghs, the master, for allowing the übor-master to take command of the to 8 ®! after stranding. All the certificates ire returned. V |on Saturday last (says the Christchurch Rss) the schooner Saxon, Capfc. M'Keczie, laden with a cargo of EwOOft of sawn timber, while entering the pni#k#rin River, went ashore ou the nph, spit. The vessel was being held to E&northward, and the wind dying away as Kyy shower of rain came on sbe drifted . The channel over the bar is at glroy divided, and the depth of water leas ijjßr.ntnal, so that the width of deep water Ei necessarily restricted, The accident El? .be assigned to these causes- The lijgo, consigned to Mr John Sims, is fully nureo, and the vessel is also said to be On Sunday morning the Saxon Bgot! off, bnt was unfortunate enough to ■p the ground on the south side. Our ■IP 0 * correspondent telegraphed last that the vessel had been abandoned Bhg the afternoon as a total wreck. The BpTof the Saxon remained at the pilot it -Is Understood that an inquiry Hue, wreck and working of the signals BpU will be asked for.