June 7th.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 228, 13 June 1872, Page 5

June 7th.

The s.s. Albion on her passage from Melbourne via the Bluff, with the Suez mails, is announced by telegram to have sailed from the Bluff at 8.30 this morning, and may be expected to arrive at Port Chalmers to-night. The p.s. Wallace arrived from Oamaru last evening ; sails for the same destination to-morrow morning, is due thence on' Saturday, aud sails the san^e evening for the Molyneux.

The Thames and Mersey liner John o'Gaunt, which came into port oh Saturday, has had more than her share of adventure this trip. At one time she was in great peril from the icebergs which- encompassed her. The bergs were first fallen in with on the 7th April, in lat. 43deg. 31min. S., and long. 7deg. 23min. E. At two o'clock on the morning of that date the look- out reported something like a large white cloud ahead, but which was speedily discovered to be an iceberg, and the ship narrowly escaped coming into contact with it. The bodies of ice were very large, and. at noon there had been no fewer than 100 large icebergs passed. There were also quantities of drift ice floating about, and it was not until 5 p.m. that the bhip, which during that time had run 135 miles, had passed the last of the icebergs. There had been no unmually cold weather previous to the falling in with the ice, and its sppearance was therefore as unexpected as unwelcome. Two more large icebergs were sighted and passed on 25th April, but a wide berth was given them. —Melbourne Telegraph, May 14. A Sydney telegram to the Argus, dated May 19, reports as follows : — The barque Alice Cameron has arrived dismasted. She picked up the crew of the barque Bengal, coal laden, for Dunedin. The vessel had sprung a leak, and had 10 feet of water in her hold when abandoned.

A number of the merchants and underwriters of Melbourne met at the Criterion Hotel yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Gaptain King, of (.the Calcutta, as an acknowledgment of the bravery and skill displayed by him in bringing his vessel into Melbourne from a distance of 5000 miles iv circumstances of great difficulty and danger. Mr Alfred Woolley was called to the chair, and said he had great pleasure in congratulating and in presenting Captain King with a purse containing L 95, subscribed by most of the insurauce companies, and a number of the first merchants of the city as a mark of their appreciation of his conduct.