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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2901, 16 May 1873, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Sydney Morning Herald of the 171.1 i April says : —" Intelligence wua received from Hongkong by lust mail that the celebrated tea clipper Serica, Captain Innes, hud been wrecked on the Paracels Shoals, while on her voyage from Whampoa to Buenos Ayres, and that the entire ship's company, except the boatswain, perished. The captain and eight men died on a raft which they had constructed, and nineteen others were drowned on the Triton Koc'.o, where their raft went to pieces." On the passage of the ship Calcutta, from London to this port, E. C. Larssen, an ordinary seaman, while engaged in reefing the upper foretopsail, missed his hold and fell on deck, and had his brains dashed out by the fall. The accident occurred on the 9th of March, at half-past 9 a.m. Earlier on the voyage Mr. Thomas Craig, a cabin passenger, aged 19, died from consumption. During the voyage an abandoned ship was passed.—Melbourne Argtts, April 19. A chimney-sweep likes his trade because it soots him. An indiscreet youth in Cairo has been fined for violently kissing the school ma'am. She was so homely that the judge said there -was absolutely no excuse for him. A gentleman was one day composing music for a lady to whom he paid his addresses. " Pray, Miss 8.," said he," What time do you prefer ?" " Oh," she replied, carelessly, " any time will do, but the quicker the better." The company smiled at the rejoinder, and the gentleman took her at her word.