'The lods of the Namoa removes an almost historic' landmark: from the - coast.. The good old'ship has gone back and forth between this. port and Hongkong for something like thirty years, quite a long life for coaster. But she has found her billetat last and lies beached just outside the Haitan Straits. The accident happened on Sunday, 3rd October, about ten in the mornin. Agale of wind swas blowing at the time and saddenly those on the bows felt tremendous shock and soon after the ship began to leak and was headed for the shore. She got into shallower water, but was bows under before she touched bottom. The rock she struck isseid not to be marked on the chart and ver; likely is not, as the Haitan Straits, though afternoon of Saturday, the 2nd instant, Well surveyed, bristles with rocks and some years ago one of the skippers who probably knew the Straits better than his pocket found a pinnacle ripping up his ship's bottom thereon. That rock was found. by the officers of a surveying ship and put on the chart. Be thatasit may, Captain Hall of the late Namoa was a most conscientious and careful commander and not without great experience. But to return to nos moons. The sngers and crew were got into boats and landed, though some half-a-dozen, or, as some say twenty, natives were lost by the overturning of the boats in the surf. Those saved tramped to the P: Anchorage barefooted and in their wet clothes, a distance of thirty miles. Nothing in the shape of mails or papers, not even the ship's logyk, was saved at the time of the accident, though there weraon board no less thea four mails. The Vice Consul, Mr. Hosie, and the captain went away in 'a Chinese gunboat to the scene of the wreck to see what could be salved. They found the vessel in a hopeless condition and the cargo already Cee by the fishermen. All the opium lad disappeared. The mail' bags had gone too, but the beach was strewn with their contents. The letters and so forth on the beach were carefully collected and a sort of informal search through the houses result in the discovery of a good many more. These remnants all wet, stained with mud and gritty with sand were sent tous yesterday so that the mail was not utterly lost after all.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.