MISCELLANEOUS

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2612, 1 December 1865, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

The sebooner Met«or (u to ktr« l«ft for HoUtllc* Uit •Ttnln£ The three misled schooner Littlt Fred it botulf expected from Wiikato The «.s Airedale U due from the Southern ports on Monday next.

« THE, BLUE JACKET. Yest«d»y » bottle iv picked up In the harbour b/ oni of tht watermen, conUlnin j till following account of thf royaf t of this lUp :— ' i " Tfc« Oilp r.lui Jacket left Gnresentl on Atgrnst 8, anchorea U tb« E .wn», weighed afain on the Sth : 'anchored on tht Stk oJ th» \\ Ujht, duch irred tht pilot, welched again tamt >li/. Winil south, dead ahead. Fiaallr cleared tht Cbannid on the 13th: took her departure from Ushant thai d»r. Passed Madeira Kith : crossed tht tint on September lSth, lont- 2S" W,, li»tld{ beta out 41 tlap. " Oa tie S3rd, a serions mutiny broke out [Me earto hartnr been bcoxchcd prciioml) . which vis prompil; reprtued and tht rln<i«iden tecnred,— not betor* the M«on<l matt had reeeireil * fearful (ath en hU head four ant) a half inches tnchei lon{ Kfeh a ihctlli knife, nearly ble<-tloj to death befort Hit anerle* could bt tlwl ami tht wound ten op. Tht Br»t offlcer abo rectlrtd a f erero blow on tht face from an Iron belartof-jibi, by tbt rnfllin who hid tried to kill tht second otticee. "OaSSthtpokt tht French ship Lotni, from Harselllei ta Zaozlbar. beinf then Udanout. Tht Lotos bad tht saint light wfads as wo had, hartni sighted us on the 30th Au(ust, on!/ canine i» <ieht aj*ln on tht 25th September, after a run of S,I(M mile*. Iht Blue Jacket pustd i'rUtaa d*Aconha on tht ettt October, tbt meridian of tht Cape on tht 12th, and tht CrnieUei on tht 19th : ran down our eajtlnj In latltndt 37' ami 43 respectively. On tht Slh Varember pissed tht Snarei. " IF*! Terr llelit «Iml< three iHr? before w» putcd the > i t I • Ilk I , » Hi *l 010.l V%llilkU hourt Uix Kiml from thei* to lort LjtUUotL Anchored on tht l&k Norembf r off tht qimrontlnt station station. " Tbe Blue Jacket no In Jl consecutlrt >Urs the extraonlinary daoancc of 7,553 nautical miles— an areraft of over 2IJ miles f*r diem— quite one half the whole distance from Eo(land ta New Zealand, " ILwI four tUaths ami one prematnr* birth dnrinf tht passaft, iLuaelr— James Held, agi S3, of smallpox: William Dick, two j-eart, heart disease : Elizabeth Dick, thret years, from prematur* birth : Agnes Turnbull, ajtd 30, dlarrhwa.— " Lyttelson Times,* ISth .November.