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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 29 May 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

Promotions. —The following is from the London Gazette, 28th January, 1862:—T0 be Majors in the Army—2nd Cant. n. F. Foquet Ellis Hickes, R.A., 15th Feb, 1881 Capt. James Paul, 65th F, 28th January, 1862 Capt, George Owen Bowdler, 10th F. “ 1862 2nd Capt, H, strover, E.A. " 1562 Capt. ll.p. Turner, 65th F. “ 1862 Burning of an Australian Ship. —Advices have just been received from Ascension Island, with intelligence of a marvellous escape of the passengers and crew of the ship Orient, 1236 tons, Captain Lawrence, from Adelaide to London, which put into the Island on the sth January, having been ou fire three days, and it had not been got under up to the morning of the 6th. The Orient had a very valuable cargo on board, and about sixty passengers. Captain Lawrence, in a letter to the owners, states that the fire was observed on the morning of the 2nd Jan., and after making an unsuccessful attempt to get at the lire, they battened down the hatches, and every place was made secure. Scuttles were then cut in the deck, and water poured down in torrents, but it had no effect, and the lire extended rapidly. All that night, the following night, the next day, they continued at the pumps, the passengers rendering great help. The boats were got out the second day, when by accident the cutter and lifeboat got athwart each other, and were smashed to pieces, leaving only the long-boat to take upwards of 100 people, but which could not hold one-half the number. Another night passed, and the fire still raging; the suspense and anxiety of all on board were dreadful, for many parts of the deck were burnt through, and the whole of the cargo appeared to be a live fire. At daybreak on the third day, a sail was seen from aloft on the port beam, and all speed was made to bear down upon it. They succeeded in coming up to the vessel. She proved to be the Dutch barque Van der Heim. All the passengers were without loss of time put on board of her, and the captain agreed to remain by the Orient, which he did. By dint of great exertions, the Orient was got into Ascension on that day, the sth. She was still on fire, and, according to the last accounts, was still burning.— Melbourne Herald. Where to Find Sympathy. —“ My brudders,” said a waggish darkey to a crowd “ in all affliction, in all ob your trubles, dar is one place you can always find sympathy.” “Whar, whar?” shouted several of his auditors. “In de dictionary !” he replied, rolling his eyes skywards. An Accommodating Story-teller. —A Hampshire man told a story about a flock of rooks nine miles long, so thick that you could not see the sun through it. “ Don’t believe it,” was the reply. “ Wal,” said the narrator, “you re a stranger, and I don’t want to qua rel with you. So to please you, I’ll take a quarter of a mile off the thinnest end;” Brown and Smith, two gentlemen well known to every one who walks the street, were out a few days since, when they were met by an overdressed individual, who appeared as if he thought he was somebody important. ‘Do your know that chap, Smith?’ said Brown. ‘Yes, I know him; that is, I know of him.’ * Why, he’s a sculptor ?’ ‘ Such a looking chap as that a sculptor ! Surely you must be mistaken.’ He may not be the kind of sculptor you mean but I know that he chiselled a tailor out of a suit of clothes last week.

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