very curious incident is reported from Guernsey. A few days ago the s.s, Courier left the harbour of St. eter Port, on board the vessel being the committee of pilots and two candidates in the service of the London and South Western Railway Company, who went out to undergo examination as pilots. In passing the Am-roque the steamer appears to have struck on @ half-tide rock known as the Demi clu Nord, with the result that the keel of the Courier was badly torn and one blade of the propeller was broken. The damage sustained was not so great as to. pro-vent her making port or to_provent the examination from being completed. There were fourteen Channel pilots aboard and the mishap occurred in broad daylight. 'The Demi clu Nord ly a very dangerous rock for vessels coming from the Casquets and the Race of Alderney in order to make' the Russell. It is also close to the rock known as the Platte Bone, on which two Channel steamers were wrecked some years ago.'
"This looks better. I take the following from the Liverpool Journal of Saturday. As my contemporary devotes a great deal of attention to shipping matters, its opinion that sobriety on the part of a British crew is unique is worthy of attention "ALL BRITISHERS: ALL SOBER, UNIQUE INCIDENT, the Mersey on the Rorning tide, lat The Liverpool ship John o'Gaunt Thursday for Wellington and Dunedin, N.Z., with a complete crew of Britishers and it is worthy of note, moreover, that at the time of her sailing from the dock every man on board was perfectly sober,"
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