[By Electric Telegraph.] WELLINGTON.
Akrived. — November 30th, steamer Claud Hamilton, from Nelson. Sailed. — November 30th, steamer Egmont, for Napier. PORT CHALMERS. Aeeived.— November 29th, Camilla, from Hobart Town : December Ist, Chili, from London. Sailed. — November 29th, Clara, for Sydney. The Loss op the P. and O. Steamer Singapore. — The Singapore, it will be remembered, on the 20th of August, about twenty-five minutes past noon, left Yokohama for Hakodate and almost within sight of her port, struck on a sunken rock, not laid down in the charts, and went down in deep water in a little more than an hour. With twenty-five passengers on board, connected chiefly with important mercantile houses in Japan and China, and a crew of 120 officers and men, we might have had to chronicle a frightful calamity. Tho escape of every individual, without a single exception, however, is duo, under God, to the admirable boat service universal on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships, to the coolness and steadiness of the crew and passengers, and particularly to the watchful and unremitting care of Captain' Wilkinson, his chief mate, Mr. Reeves, and his other officers, which had kept the boats in the splendidly serviceable state in which they were found, and the crew under the discipline which did them such credit. Every boat was in the water, and all £he passengers in the boats, within six minutes after the ship had struck ! — Japan Times.
[By Electric Telegraph.] WELLINGTON.
Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 145, 3 December 1867, Page 2
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