From tHe "Norta-Cuina Dairy News, or May 29, 1870
We regret to learn, from Hongkong papers, the loss of H. M. gunboat Slaney. and of the British ship Caractacus, on the Paracels shoal. In the former case, 42 lives (including the Commander) out Of 51 on board, were lost: the cre the Caractacus were saved. s. Salamis and Adventure have gone to ihe relief of the survivors. The news of both calamities was brought to Hongkong by the pinnace of the Caractacus which had been boarded and plundered by fishermen, on the Both wrecks occurred during a cyclone; and the small steamer Bay, bound from Hongkong to Manila, was lost during the same gale, off the coast of Hainan. Mr Findlay. her builder and owner, was "washed overboard and. drowned.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.