SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1186, 4 February 1880, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. Feercart 4. Nil. SAILED. Febrcary 4. Nil. IN HARBOR. Brigantine—-Brigantiiie. Schooners —Isabella Pratt, anganut. SHIPPING TELEGRAM. Accklane>, February 3. Sailed—Rotomahana, for Sydney ; City of Sydney, for San Francisco, at 5.30 p.m. Lrrrr. ltov, February 3. Cleared —Crusader. ship, for London, with 5235 bales wool and sundries. Port Ckai.mkks. February 4. Arrived Ringaroom. from the TilufF; Beautiful Star, "from Oamaru ; Ladybird, from Timaru. Sailed Ringarooma, for Lyttelton ; Kermione, for London, with 43-SS bales wool. 2597 sacks wheat, 10 casks pelts, valued at LSo,4t>7. She takes no pas?enKere. THE STRIKING OF THE KOTOMAHANA. [BY TF.E.EREAFK.] ArcKt,..v.tt>, February 3. The enquiry into the canse of the accident to the Rotomahana by striking against a rock near the Great Carrier Island, on the Ist January, was finished this afternoon, _ the following witnesses having been examined, vir., Thomas Underwood, master mariner; Thomas Hill, Collector of Customs; C. Jonea, master mariner : H. "W orsp, master mariner » and A. Alcorn, *f notice of Peace. The judgment of the Court was as follows : "'The Conrt finds that no wrongfnl act or default can be attributed to Captain Underwood in the striking of the Rotomahana on a rock on Ist .fanaary laat. bnt at the same time the Court is of opinion that sending sitcft a ship as the Rotomahana on a pleasure excursion with a large number of passengers to a port seldom visited by large ships ; and, farther, following a channel not even then generally emptoyed, wa* highty injudicious and is reprehensible. The engagement, too, of a person as pilot who cannot understand a chart is btameabte. The Court finds that the: conduct of the master and officers after the accident was praiseworthy, there being no confusion, and no unnecessary alarm on hoard after the striking." THE SCHOONER SOPHIA. [BY TEt.EOE.VPiC.] AETKLA>-r>, February 3. The Sophia, tfiree-maste.i schooner, which left Oamarn on the 22nd nit., with "00 tons stone, has put into this port in distress, having on the 28th struck on the Hull Rock, off Portland tight, at 10.30 p.m. The night was very fine, bat it is thought the strong tide got hold of her. She bumped three times and went over a rock. She made a large quantity of water, but reached this port safely. The damage cannot be accurately ascertained, and she will have to be unloaded and go into dock for examination.