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Oct. 25 ! Lake St. Clair, [ 12J years „ 25 Coromandel,s.s., 9J years 29 Opawa, 12 years Nov. 2 Gairloeh, s.s., 4 years i Shag, s.s., 13 years „ 4 ! Glair mon t, 12 years 4 Girola, 9 years Schooner | 24 Schooner 68 Ship .. 1075 Schooner 211 Schooner 31 2 9 34 17 5 15 Frozen meat & salt General Produce Collision; slight damage Collision ; no damage Stranded; par- i tialloss Stranded ; no damage Stranded; slight damage :'f OS Judge's Bay, Auckland Oamo.ru Harbour V* aitara River Small outlying rocks off Pinnacle Rock, Wellington Harbour Two cables off breastwork north of Railway Wharf, Wellington Harbour One-mile Spit, Lake Wakatipu Te Kaukau Point, 8 miles north of Cape Palliser Napierroadstead, 1 mile off Inner Harbour SAW SAY. S. Fresh breeze Variable Strong breeze (\ James Elworth. Casualty caused through "Lake St. Clair "I going about instead of holding on her course / 1 Thomas Scott. Vessel struck on her anchor when entering the .Joseph John harbour Hammon. Accident caused by losing steerage-way through F i n d 1 a y touching the bar McArthur. Accident caused through vessel getting off her Samuel Plumley. course by steersman mistaking light at pilotstation for Somes Island light " Clairmont " when in tow of s.s. " Rotorua " ( J°|, in t Lewth' ran into" Girola," which was lying at anchor -i j waI e' without lights, and sank her Vessel ran on sandbank .. .. .. I Thomas Henry Richards. Casualty caused through master not giving James Stevens. Cape Palliser a sufficiently wide berth Barque .. 755 Cutter .. 13 GG Ballast.. Collision ; no damage Collision ; partial loss Stranded ; no [ damage Stranded; total loss 2 Calm „ 5 I H o u n t w ii e e r, p.s., 9 years „ 10 j Lizzie Guy, 17 11 118 Calm .. Schooner ! 85 1 6 Produce S.S.E. Fresh gale years Loading tallow & wool Flax .. „ 12 Langstone, 20 years Barque .. GCS 18 Fire on board ; partial loss Fire originated among cargo in hold, but no John Carvossoa no evidence of cause Tonkin. Vessel struck on bar, and lost rudder and t Thomas Eckford. rudder-post An attempt was made to sail from Lyttelton to Percy Nalder. Akaroa Regatta with incompetent hands to manage the boat; and being caught in a hea.vy gale the boat was broken in half and foundered, and the three lads forming the ! crew were lost I' William Darling Collision caused by "Maid of the Mill" putting ji Dawson. , : u>,z; about just ahead of the " Maitai " 1 Robert Thomp- ( son. Casualty caused through tow-rope breaking .. j William Cameron. 19 Neptune, s.s., 5 3-ears Dec. 14 Coquette Ketch .. | 44 2 Stranded ; partial loss Foundered; total loss 3 (all hands) Bar of Wairau River .. Calm .. 7 Private about pleasure- j 4 boat I 3 Pa Point, north-east part of Banks Peninsula, 3 miles from Le Bon's Bay S.E. Gale .. „ 15 Maitai, s.s., 3 years 15 Maid of the Mill, 23 years „ 1G Reliance, 13 „ . 15 15 Schooner 1G3 Ketch .. 26 163 26 4 General Wool .. Collision ; no damage Collision ; partial loss Stranded; slight damage Entrance to Inner Harbour, Napier s.w. 1G Ketch .. 65 j 65 4 Coal .. North beach, near entrance of Waitara River Alongside wharf at Hokitika SAV. Fresh breeze years Coal S.W. 27 Aorere, s.s., 2 years 1RR9. 27 Ketch .. 45 45 Fire on board ; partial loss Apparently caused through spontaneous com- William Hvabustion in the starboard bunker cinth Lambert. Jan. 17 Oreti, s.s., 12 years 1889. Jan. 17 Schooner 138 138 Live-stock Stranded; partial loss Steeples Rocks, near Cape Foulwind Calm .. Course was altered at 4.30 p.m. when weather John George was clear but beginning to cloud over, and Gilbertson. from 6 to 8 p.m. it became thick. At 9.15 p.m. the Steeples Rocks were sighted on starboard bow, and the ship was at once put full speed astern, but she almost immediately struck lightly forward once. A good look-out was kept, and prompt measures were taken to save the vessel; but it would have been more prudent for the master in thick weather, when he could not See Cape Foulwind light, to have taken soundings. He was ordered to pay the costs of the inquiry. I 15 I