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Wonder

HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M.

on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found the brigantine Wonder, of Swansea, dragging her anchors and nearly ashore. Some of the Life-boat men went on board the vessel, got canvas on her, hove up the starboard anchor, slipped the port one, and ran the vessel into the old harbour, mooring her alongside the quay. She was bound to Newcastle-on-Tyne with a cargo of salt, and carried a crew of six men..