PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4235, 11 March 1871, Page 2

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

Arrivals.— March 10. Industry, schooner, Grundy, from Waifeara. — Master, agent. Flora Macdonald, cutter, Kennedy, from Raglan. — &. Barnes, agent.

The cutter Flora Macdonald, from Raglan, brings 74 pigs, 4 kits bacon. The schooner Industry brings the following cargo from Waitara :— 2 anchors, 1 chain cable, 8 sails, and a quantity of machinery (from the wreck of the s,s. Airedale.)

The Battery or the Atlantic Cable.— The battery which operates the Atlantic Cable telegraph is composed of five cells. Each cell is composed of a glass tumbler, a small disc of sheet copper, and a similar one of zinc, a few pellets of sulphur of copper and moiafc sawdust filling the tumblers This is all. It has no smell. A spoonful of water upon the sawdugt now and then is all it needs for support. It seems insignificant and powerless, yet does its work efficiently and w ell. The French cable uses only seven such cells, although twice as long as the other. — Telegraph Journal. Frightful Sufferings on Board a Junk.— The barque Francis Henty, the yacht of the port, returned on Wednesday, after an absence of over thirteen months, looking as trim as ever. During her absence from the port she has been trading in the China seas. These have lately been visited by very heavy typhoons, and in one of these Captain Quayle was instrumental in saving the lives of a portion of crew of a junk winch had drifted out of her course On reaching the deck of the junk a horrible spectacle was witnessed. There were four Chinamen alive, but more like skeletons than living beings ; they were so weak as to be unable to stir, and had to be carried on board the barque, where they were fed and clothed, but, despite all the care bestowed on them, one died within twenty -four hours after being rescued from the junk. The remaining three were taken on to Saigon, "where through interpreters it was ascertained that the jtmk had left Formosa for Swatow, with, a cargo of rice ; but falling in with a typhoon, which carried away the masts and drove the vessel down the China Sea, they had been twenty-one days drifting about at the mercy of the elements. They were fourteen days without water or food, beyond a few drops caught during one or two passing showers, and the dead body of one of their shipmates, four of whom died prior to Captain Quayle coming up to the junk. On the following day another junk, •waterlogged was pag6e d, around which there