The Daily Press gives particulars of the fate of the American Milo, which w mentioned on the Ist instant had been seen bythe China, adrift in Formosa Channel. The barque left Amoy, where she had been Iving for some time, on the 12th November, with a cargo of timber for Bhanghai, She experienced very heavy weather, the N.E. monsoon blowing at imes a perfect gale, anda heavy sea was 7 I began to make water ry badly. This incrossed as off the north end of Formosa, decided to run back again night of the 26th, snd nea were such that ter was sought, and the vessel, atill g badly, put into Meichin Sound and anchored. The sea there was found to be heavy, and half-an-hour after anchoring the cable parted and ip was drivea again to sea. There five feet of water 1 crew insisted on abandon-took to the boats at 3am. for Meichin Sound with the boats and landed at 9 a.m. There they engaged a fishing junk, and the captain, officers, and crow arrived in Amoy on the 29th, and have come on to Hongkong by the steamer Fleurs Castle, which arrived at 2 a.m. yesterday. Whilst they were at Amor, the British steamship Has.
Yours truly,
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