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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1068, 2 May 1882, Page 2

The master of the s.s. Rosina called upon us on Saturday with reference to a report in our Tologa Bay correspondence as to the Rosina going ashore there. Our correspondent, who is not a seaman, seems to have given rather an exaggerated version of the ship’s position. Captain Harries states that she was inside the bar, there was no “ sea ” on, although there was a little “ jobble, and the ship was lying perfectly quiet with her nose in the mud until the tide rose. At no time was the sea “ breaking over ” her, and at no time was she bumping. She was simply on the mud />wr et simple, and and beyond that nothing was the matter with her. He requests us to state that she, her engines, and boiler are in a thoroughly good and seaworthy state. Mr NaNCARROw, Government Inspector of machinery, paid hie periodical visit, and gave his certificate only a week or two ago, and her slight touching in the Tologa Bay river has not done her the slightest injury in any way. The cause of her going ashore was her wheel chain carrying away. She was only on the mud about an hour and a half, and came off as the tide rose, without injury.