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PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles, outside of the Hipsford buoy, where the "vessel was ashore, was cast off and dropped down to her, being thus enabled to take off her crew of ten men, The Life-boat then returned to the teg and was towed to Barrow, where the rescued men were landed. The barque had tost her main aad mizen masts and became a total wreck..