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Paola

PALLING, NORFOLK.—During a fresh breeze from the N.W. on the 3rd November, a steamer was observed on the Hasborough Sands showing signals of distress. The British Workman Life-boat was launched at 9 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the Paola, of Hamburg, bound from Shields to Palermo with a cargo of coal. The Life-boatmen boarded her, and after part of the cargo had been thrown overboard she floated off the sands, and was taken into Yarmouth Eoads. She had a crew of 22 men..