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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 271, 22 November 1870, Page 2

Residents at the North ShoreJ have often complained that in case of sudden illness the absence of medical assistance, and especially at night, may have a serious effect. It will afford to many grounds for sincere satisfaction to observe that euch a want is no longer to he experienced, Mr. W. L. Jackson, surgeon and accoucheur, having announced his present residence afc Mrs. Shepherd's, North Shore. This circumstance will, we have no doubt, bo hailed with satisfaction by many a family resident there, and be an additional cause of attracting settlement to that delightful locality. Prom a private letter received by the last mail, written on board the City of Auckland, in the Channel, we learn that that vessel took her departure on the 16th September, and passed Deal on the following day. The pilot left her on the 19th, at which time she was comfortably reeling off the knots for New Zealand with a favorable breeze and whole canvas. The Loss of Heb Mag-esty's Ship Tbinctjlo.—News has been received from Gibraltar, dated Sept. 6, of the loss on the previous night of Her Magesty's gunboat Trinculo. It appears that whilst,cruising off Estepona,Bhe was run into by the Spanish merchant steamer Moratin. The vessels had sighted each other for some time, and had taken the usual precautions, when suddenly the Moratin put her helm to starboard, and ran into the Trinculo ahead of her foremast, cutting her clean in two. The crew had barely time to escape in the boat, four minutes only elapsed from the moment of the collision to the sinking of the Trinculo. Some of the crew, who were forward, saved themselves by climbing over inte the Moratin. ' Two of the crew of the Trinculo L are, missing; one man is supposed to have been crushed before he had time to leave his hammock, and the other man was drowned. The Moratin was on her passage from Malaga to Cadiz. The officers and crew of the lost vessel were brought in here this morning by the Moratin.