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Eliza

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—At about 1.30 p.m. on the 10th October, during a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a high sea, the Arab Life-boat put off to the assistance of a schooner which while running for the harbour, having sprung a leak, had struck on the Doom Bar, the seas breaking clean over her. The Life-boat rescued the crewconsisting of five men, and landed them safely at about 2.10 p.m. The vessel was the Eliza, of and for Penzance, from Porthcawl, with a cargo of coal; she sank and became a total wreck..