PORT CHALMERS.
This day.
Arrived: ship May Queen, 105 days from London, with 1500 tons of cargo and 24 passengers. She encountered a terrific cyclone in the Bay of Biscay on the 28th of September; lost bulwarks and crotchet yards. The sea tilled the deck and washed away the live stock. Thence she had fine weather and strong breezes till December 7th, when she met a terrific westerly gale and hove to uuder close reefed topsails. A man named Francis Grodolphin Boise, loosing the foretopmast stays, was washed overboard and no traces seen of him. The next day Captain Tatchell, while asleep, was hove out of his bunk and fractured his collar bone. Passed a body in oilskin clothing on the 9th, made the Snares on the 26th ultimo, encountered a heavy northerly gale for 14 hours and lost part of her bulwarks; Detective Dalton, London police, arrested a cabiTi passenger named Jackson, charged with embezzlement of £900, the proporty of the Colney Hatch Company. A bank draft for £540 was found on. him. Jackson was accompanied by his wife.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 2
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180PORT CHALMERS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 2
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