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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3377, 21 December 1871, Page 2

The s.s. Go-Ahead left yesterday afternoon, but owing to the strong N.W. gale blowing in the Strait, returned to port. Her Majesty's ship Blanche took her departure for Auckland yesterday, at 2 p.m. An unpleasant tale of straitened resources and singularly " short commons" at eoa comes to us by the barque Sarah Ann, which arrived in port yesterday from Newcastle, N.S.W. Captain Mills, master of the Sarah Ann, a steady old salt, and not given to much romancing, reports that on the voyage from Newcastle, when off Ram Head at half-past four p.m. on the 27th ultimo, he was boarded by a boat from the barque Jane Woodhouse, of Glasgow, eighty-five days out from Foo-chow-foo, and bound to Sydney. The mate of the Jane Woodhouse, who was in charge of the boat, averred that there were no provisions on board that vessel, save and excepting a fow pannikins of rice, and that for twentyone days previously the crew had been limited to four ounces ©f bread each per diem. Capt Mills at once offered the barque every assistance in his power, and supplied her from his stores with provisions enough to last him for a week. He also gave the mate a chart of fcho coast. The voyage of the barque, eighty-five days, is a long one, certainly, but still it is not a very protracted one, and it seems curious that she should so soon have exhausted her stores, and more curious that she did not put into some port to replenish. The Sarah Ann left Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 24th ultimo, and had light variable winds and fine weather until about ten miles from Port Phillip Heads on the 4th instant, when a heavy thunderstorm, lasting for about two hours, was encountered.—Melbourne " Argu9," Bth inst.