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New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2521, 23 February 1872, Page 3

[advertisement,] To the Editor of the llehald,

Sih, — On the 12th instant there appeared in your shipping intelligence a report of the p. 3. Duke ut Edinburgh rescuing the schooner Prince Rupert from a position of great danger, she being (according to your veracious corresponded) close upon the rocks at the time, und having aflig uf distress flying, and tho ease was de-'eribed as one for salvage. I beg to give the most direct contradiction to the statements made in that repurt:—

1. The vessel was not in any danger, being four cables' length from the rocks, in thirty fathoms water, with sixty fathom of chain on one anchor ready, and the kodge with one hundred fathoms of line ready to let go Oil th© other side.

2. Having been mate on board the p.B. Duko of Edinburgh and s.s. G-o Ahead with Captain Furquhar, and having always been oa sj.iori terms wl ii him, never thinking he wonli refuse me such a small favor, I signalled him with my ensign, union up, in the main rigging, and asked him if he would tow me oir the point (Takatu). This ho did, towing the schooner l'or about half-an-hour, and further than I warned, he 3tying he would give me a good ofllng. Wo gave him our tow rope without any difficulty in our own bo t it, having been previously towing the schooner ourselves. Ail hands ean certify to the correctness of the foregoing -ia'.em -nfc. —I :un,&c., CItAS. FItKDK. lIeLANDEB, of the Schooner Prince Rupert.