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CHRISTCHURCH.

Tbia day. Mr Wbiteford gave judgment last

night in the enquiry into the loss of the ketch Sarah and Mary to the following effect:—That no satisfactory evidence has been given to account for the origin of the flre, and that the whole evidence given by the master and mate was thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy. Costs, amounting to £35 19s, are to be paid by the master of the vessel. Arrangements have been almost completed with regard to the cheap trip to the Melbourne Exhibition,. The steamer Hero has been selected to accomodate 150 excursionists, and the route will be from Lyttelton to Wellington, thence to Sydney, and staying three days there, and thence to Melbourne; they will have six days' stay there, and then back to Sydney, and on to Auckland, where the steamer will wait two days, thence to Lyttelton. Fare, including board and residence, eleven guineas. A serious -accident happened to James Taylor, second mate of the ship Camperdown, this morning. He was superintending the bending of the sails out on the mizzen top gallant yard, when he fell from the yard into the mizzen top, lodging in the netting on the after side of the top, which broke big fall considerably. His escape from instant death was miraculous, as had he not struck the netting, nothing could have saved him.