THE WRECK OF THE ALMA.
(by telegraph. ) Greymotjth, September 10. The three-masted schooner Alma, which had been condemned on a survey and abandoned, was brought to the vjharf this morning by the tug Dispatch. During the ni«l\t the water cut away the bank on which the scooner struck and the current this morning completed her liberation. The Alma was built in watertight compartments, and the fore and 3ft ones being sound, thg vessel floated, An inj quiry was held inta the cau§e of the stranding before Mr, Wood, Collector of Customs, to*day, when the Collector decided there was no evidence of culpable negligence, and the slipping of the towline was the cause of the accident. The certificates of the master (Capt. and the mate (Andrew were "returned to tj}gr)s=
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 11 September 1880, Page 2
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