Wo regret to have to report the loss of another steamer of the well known Castle Line, belonging to Messrs. Skinner and Ca., namely the Minard Castle, Captain Skinner, which arrived out Here from home a short time since, and has been running between this port and Saigon whil ing the tea season. The Minard Castle left this harbour at about nine o'clock yesterday morning (10th instant), ballast, for Saigon, and had reached the Island of Chungchow, about nine miles out, when she struck on a sunken rock off that island and is now submerged sothatonly the upper portion of her funnel and masts are to be seen above wat and it is feared she will prove a hopeless lous. The rock on which she atruck lies off the point which juts out on the island on the opposite side Of the Customs Station there, and is marked on the chart as being betwoon a quarter and half a mile distant from the shore of the island, but we are informed that it is not quite correctly marked on the chart, the real distance being between half and three quarters of a mile from the shore, The steamer Hungarian, Captain Allison, on her way here from Saigon, met the ill-fated vessel, and noticing later on that she appeared to be in ditficull turned about and went to her assistance, and picked up her crew, who hud left at once in a boat, and' brought them on to this port. The Hungarian remained by the sinking vessel artil she went down, about three-quarters of an hour after the time she struck, The Minard Castle struck on hier starboard bilge, causing, we believe, a large breach in her bottom, and she
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