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RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.— A rocket was fired from a vessel near Rhoscolyn Landmark early on the morning of the 7th March. The weather was foggy, and a heavy sea was running, the wind being S.W. The Thomas lAngham Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and found that she had struck on a rock. She was the barque Orient, of Liverpool, bound to that port from San Francisco, with a cargo of wheat. Fortunately the wind shifted to the N., and aided by the advice of the coxswain of the Life-boat, the ship was extricated from her perilous positionand enabled to complete her voyage in safety..