SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1363, 2 October 1883, Page 2

SHIPPING.

arrivals, September. 30—Ringarooma, from Southern Ports. Passengers—Messrs J. F. Herbert Winney, Hearing, O’Meara, Murphy, McDonald, Benjawiu, Reeves, Johnstoa, Tempsky, Mr and Mrs Goldie and son, Mrs Palmer, Mr and Mrs Doyle and 3 children, and 2 Natives. DEPARTURES. September. 30—Ringarooma for Auckland. Passon* g erB __Mdsars J. Kay, and Mr and Mrs SicGra, The Southern Cross is expected from Wellington and Napier on Thursday morn« iug next at daylight. On Friday next the Manapouri will arrive from Auckland.

The schooner Awaroa arrived duly on Saturday night last from Napier, with a full cargo of coals and grass seed, consigned to Mr H. E Johnstox

The Manapouri on leaving Gisborns on Friday the oth instant, will not proceed farther than Port Chalmers, through passengers will therefore not leave Dunedin, till the following week.

Owing to the heavy state of the weather lately, the schooner Saucy Kate, has been unable to get away for the Coast and Auckland. As the weather is clearing she may leave at any moment.

The Ringarooma arrived in the Bay early on Sunday morning last, from Melbourne via South. She steamed away the same day for Auckland, carrying on her cargo for this port to Auckland, the sea being too high to pennit her discharging it. The Melbourne “ Argus ” of September 4 has the following letter, which is signed “ Mariner Sir,—A few years ago the community was shocked by the appalling loss of life occasioned by the loss of the Tararua on the treacherous coast of New Zealand. Captain Garrard, a smart officer, who died like a brave man at his post, was blamed by the Marine Board, and denounced for his reckless navigation by editors of influential newspapers in their leading columns, and by ministers from their pulpits. A few weeks ago the Rotomahana was run on the same reef Her propeller was not materially injured, and Captain Carey cleveily extricated her from her dangerous position. The Marine Board finds that a strong current was running, and that the reef extends further than is indicated on the charts ; not further, I imagine, than when the Tararua was lost. I find no fault with the decision of the Board; I believe it is probably a correct one ; but, surely, if Captain Carey was right, poor Captain Garrard was not wrong. ”