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RETURN of Wrecks and Casualties to Shipping reported to the Marine Department— continued.

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Date of Casualty. Name of Vessel, also Age and Class. ■ m 5 Number of tture of Number Place where Casualty occurred. Wind. 1 Force. Decision of Court of Inquiry, &c. Name of Master. i 8 Passengers. Cargo. Casualty. Lives lost. Direction. i ., ■ ■' :l 1895. Feb. 25 to Annasona, 3 years, 100 Al JBarque.. 1372 19 Sugar .. Loss of sails; damage to hull and cargo On voyage from Pascaroan, Java, to Penco, Chili S.W. Storm .. Vessel met with continuous bad weather, losing sails and gear at intervals, until seas broke on board, filled the decks, and smashed a hole through it, letting water into the cargo of sugar. Vessel put into Auckland in distress, having met with very heavy weather, during which she strained badly, and made much water. The pumps became choked with shale scraps, and leak too serious to proceed on voyage round Cape Horn. Vessel broke her shaft at the boss of propeller through striking a snag in river. Alexander Ross. Mar. 10 Gale .. 8 Wolverine, 32 years "':: ' Ship .. 1226 23 6 Shale, s tallow, & bonedust Vessel strained, and sprung a leak Lat. 45° 33' S., long. 163° 35' K, 120 miles from New Zealand, on voyage from Sydney to Liverpool S.W. Henry Steinman. ■' ■ - - 15 Neptune, s.s., 12 years Schooner ■2 Wool, potatoes, chaff Breaking shaft Opawa River, 9 miles from mouth lm S. Clarke. a 7 Ca