SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
FORT or Schooners—-Zlor, .fane .fanes Ramsay. (SWARDS. Ariii MT tr». Samson* p., tut tou:i v I'Mie. from Pnne.Un. It. Aitkon, ajjunt. OtTTWARpS, AcncsT t*. Al«rt. v whooner, <M tiion, -John Hayes. fur Waitara. Majiwr, t.M FORTH. Aw:s't 15. Vtr Samson. from't>un«dln -C'wisienrs* : Footn antfCo., K. Aitken. .A feet.. Finch and r*o, ,fi. «>»*<?. tip#nc«an(i 8«e»*. DoofoVk. Bartum, W. AiCken. tdwurdfc. White. Mait.land. f.emon. StcoW.. Am™. Jack MMt Co.* J- Richmond. tarfein. Brown, Headland. Simpson, ©vmcross, Watson. H'futosh. tt'torkindale. (M&aitlt and Co.. ft. Uppcrt, r-aitti an.l Reed. l» Orant, Thompson. Fulton and Co.. R. t- wnusay. Knight* Ireland. Hudson. Roid and «rav, Mrs. Tom*. Harrtft Hood and Shunnan. J. ''hompson, Hunter, tontr. Walkem and Pevman, Allan and S'-'wMcs. tm and Know* >f. ft rtrtn. T. Richmond.. Lowe. A. firava. Cameron. Eros.. .raniicson. Kidd, St. Newey, and'thos. Proctor. rx pouts, Ann-it t,>. The Alart, for Waitara sacks wheat, "Ol> sacks oata. B sacks oatmeal. Anderson and Co. The Colon Compan-vV steam* Samson, r'apfain Edte* from Dunedin. arrived alortSfsido She Breakwater at t. M this afternoon. Pa.ssenircrs: Mesdames Wdson. Mce, trvinn. Mtews Wilson, Williams (two-).; Messrs. Maokay, Miller. Bade. Sehulor. Priw.': homy. Printer. PUirh. Quailch, Runciuan ; Masters Harris and o>M«atfhor: and ten in the steerage. . Tft# schooner T. K< Tavlor, t'aptain tor Wjuaffanui* wivilod tfov her dtfsthuitnm ut tnghC o'clock this morninir. „ , ....... * The schooner Alert, for Waitara, lett the bar an nine o'clock this morninir. STRAJfDtNtt OF TBtK tf\ tiqt.'E FROWNING JsEAt'TY. ["■ Australasian," August 3th. | *thi»vwwt> which ha* for many year* (weft enawf In the intercolonial trade, hius. for the present, found an unexpected restinif place—hiirh. and almost dry—orvth« bunch o£ ttobsorvV Buy. 'Uv hurtinc arvweit hew on the t:ith nit., from Newcastle. after an tmusually tedious and tempestuous passage. and atter (liwiharsinir carifo and halla.-ftin'X. hanleitout from Anngtnwt mv Co th« muicr-anchiirajfe, having - eleared »itt tot h«r ruturiv trip to Jfuwja.-«t,!e. Earty on Eriday mominjr. the wind blew hard from St.S.VV.. and setvt a nasty mi« roll hi if in. and at. half-past n«m,, while sue wart rldinif at wuitrl" anchor with 35 fathoms of ehatn out, the "cable partcif. Tlio second anchor ww then t«e go* but th« »(W»l«v ap|W»» to have been too'great, for It also parted about twenty minuf.es pa.-»t ■% a.m. Bvfora thu third anchor-a patent oue -eoidd he got rwWhr, thu bivrquo drov« on to the Elmeratd llili snottt. eIOHU 10' the ftaths. While tlriitinif over the sandspit. the tnddur was» uivrried away, and the vessel went bfOftditldo on at half-pa:t >a.m.. withlv-r hoad to tnc •OHfiwarif, am I almost touching the j<stty at the hatha. Sha rolled a tittlu at tirst. but Captain Pattorv got _ths ftutuh«9 ott. and allowed the sea*, which were hreafunu" *3 hitfh tvi? hyp top« v to lilt fifty hotil and n&tftltfri bur oa the heaeh. Although the sea continued to trwak ovitr hftr aIC day on Friday, she remained firmly flxgii la h«r position, welt up on the banlc. so much so, than' whsn the tid« is lower than at present it wrtt be ahaost posaiblu to walk round her. The master. J. Dnlton. and sisfht others, were on hoard th« banyiß: at 6hatini« th« anchors parted, and did what thev conid (o'tt*sr6 thu subsequent disiMtur. but were nnsnvwsstv>t liv ehoir effort:-". The steam-tnit Resolute ™ promptly duspatchcd by Messrs. -t a.*. Peane and '■. Fo renitar assistance, but the vessel was too- tvr im to the bsiwh tor the steamer's services to be available. Tha Customs and Water Police also went t" her, cut. fortunatHly thcru »»» tear for the safety of those on board'. th« bartitto i» owned in Newcastle by Mr. John Oalton., and is sailed by his son. whostated that thsru Itt no insurance stfected ott her. She is tow rtlfistsr, and wis built upwards of twenty years as<> at I Wnltby, and about U months ayo underwent an exjtonotve ovorhani, including new topuides of t'otoniat hardwuod. and new Kauri pine decks. THE IfEVERSKAM £N*QL*£RY. His Excfllloncy thu Governor has confirnwd the senimce ot Mm Bleversham- Court of tnituiry. sinpendiny Ckptaia BcrolV»certiiicate for nine months from 'f>tl'i June last. As considerivble comment has been excited by this ease and the apparent hardship of the sentence hi th« facu of the statement made by several shipmoHStire that a rock exists outside Totn's Rock, and fiat the ftavershani therefore n l;tit have fe m wrecked «iv an- unknown danger, we may explain that the certiticatu was suspended not on aeeounr. of the vessel buinff wrecked on any particular rock, or indeed of her loss at all. but in consequence of the eaptain's failingto take the proper eross-bearitv.;-s arid observations., which, lud to her gettinif into a place where she had no business to bo. Subsequent investivtations appear to have placed if hevontl douht that the ffeversliaiu was wrecked on Tom's Rock itself, and this is confirmed by the utatement of two independent witnesses on shore, who distinctly saw the vessel in dangerous proiimitj to that rock." —" Font."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 99, 15 August 1876, Page 2
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