The water has been pumped out of Boyd's New Duck, in which the Ihempoo is lying, and the damage done to her in her recent stranding can now be seen, She appears to have run at full speed in a fog into cleft in the rocks, not very far from the South-east Promontory lighthouse, and for about sixty feet from the stem her bottom pinched indin the most remarkable way, the actual keel being hardly touched. Most of the damage is on the starbuurd side, but the plates on both sides are buckled in and bent and the frames bent back. Some 46 plates have to be taken out, a few in the vessel's bottom being bent in nearly to 100 feet from her stem, Fortunately, the Whempou ix built of steel, and the plates and frames did not break, and the indentales tended to hold her to the was once in them, and prevented her slipping back into the deep water ut her stern, The two platforms that were built in her to enable her to be floated were marvellous pieces of work. That in the main hold, which was 7 fent inches, not 4 fet, under the main deck, is of thi} lattks, and was held together by five four-and-afters and. five tiers of ores to the mai ky which, as stated on Monday, wns again ahored to upper deck. Its dimensions were 50 feet by 34 feet 6 inches. The platform in the forehold was supported in the same way: it was of foot-inch planks, and. ite dimensions were 52 feet by un average of 28 feet. The main deck platteres was the important one, and it was vever quite dry, while it was only possible to work at it for 2 or Shours every tide, the total time taken in completing it being about 21 hours, and all hands on buard wre loud in their praise of the Chinese carpenters sent up by Boyd jand Ca., who worked 18 hours day. The platforms were fixed on top of the cargo of piece goods, of which some 700 tons remained in the holds, and are now being discharged from the ship. The plat-in the forehold was not completed il after the steamer came off the rocks [and was beached. Some 1,500 to 2,000 bales of piece goods, saturated with water and covered with mud, are now being discharged. Mention should be made of he unfailing courtesy and readiness to bilge of the Lighthouse-keeper, Mr. Schwilp, without whose aid it would been dificult to procure boats and to an even keel, the Whampoa had some 300 tons of coal wu board, 300 tuns of atone, nud 200 tons of water ballast, and there is hardly another condit i the Whampoa waa being i n record of a steamer in the
brought 400 miles to x port, with no port of refuge on the way in the case of bad weather being encountered. The danger was that in the heavy rolling on Friday the would be' started, in which ease earner must have gone down. Only a visit to her as she lies in dock will enable any ous to understand the ditticulty there was in asking the platturms tight
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.