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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 176, 26 July 1881, Page 1

The London « Times " says:~The British barque Ella Beatrice, owned in London, was wrecked on the northern coast of Japan on the 7th of February last, as already reported by telegraph through Lloyd's agency. The vessel, prior to being lost, had experienced gales of great violence and intensely cold weather. The seas that she took on board froze in five minutes on the deck, and several of the crew were frost-bitten. The shore on which she struck was a sandy beach on the mainland, about fifty miles from Hakododi, where she soon became a wreck. The following interesting particulars of the behaviour of the natives towards the shipwrecked crew are furnished -by Lloyd's agent at Yokohama : — " About 300 natives were seen on the shore, two of whom bravely swam through the surf with a small rope, and climbed up the ship's side. One end of a heavy rope was then made fast to the ship, and the other end given to the two Japanese, who swam ashore with it. The. marinerg were eventually landed in safety, but all they had on* board was lost. The Japanese, as soon as the wrecked barque was discovered, made a large shed of mats, in: which was lighted an immense fire, and as soon, as each of the shipwrecked mariners was hauled through the surf he was carried to the fire. The shipwrecked crew having been all well warmed, were conducted by an officer to a Japanese house, where a repast of fish and rice awaited them. They had not had a full meal for a couple of days. The locnl government immediately cent word to Hakodadi, and on the sixth day after the wreck, Mr Thompson, shipbuilder at Hakodadi, who had been despatched by Mr Consul Quin to the scene of the wreck, arrived with two Japaneso officials. A couple of days afterwards the captain and crew of the Ella Beatrice took their leave of the hospitable people among whom fate had cast them, and proceeded to Hakodadi." A man in Alabama, having published another as " a liar, a scoundrel and a poltroun," the latter complains that he does not spell poltroon correctly. In proportion to population the taxation is higher in France than in England, and the interest on the. French; debt now exceeds that of the'English { debt, .' ; '" •: "V . ;' ; . '■ "'' : y[ ' ' : \