1826

April 12. — The L Ocean ran on shore on the Eastern 
Spits, and filled with water; crew saved. The pilot, 
Richard Grenfell, received an injury. 

April 13. — The L! Ocean discharged 100 tons logwood 
into Hayle barges. Her repairs at St. Ives, previous 
to her loss, cost £1,249 17s. 6d. The wreck has been 
sold for £205. 

May 12 --The schooner Polmanter began to load alongside St. 
Ives Quay the first cargo of copper-ore ever shipped 
from this port direct from a mine. This cargo is from 
Wheal Trenwith. 

May 27. — Mackerel selling 3d. each ; butter in Pen- 
zance market io^d, and beef 7d. per pound ; barley 16s., 
wheat 27s., potatoes us. per bushel.  

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1822

May 14. — The Captains of the colliers trading to this 
port, Hayle and Portreath, formed a combination not 
to carry copper-ore for less than 5s. per ton, or to sell 
coals from Wales for less than 50s. per way (16s. 8d. 
per ton). 

May 20. — The sailors at Hayle dismantled Captain 
Sargeant's vessel for trading in copper-ore at 4s. per 
ton, on which account the people at Hayle called out 
the Yeoman Cavalry. 

2ft. or 3ft.. which caused cars to be marooned. It was impossible to walk between Penmare and Loggans. Almost the whole of Angarrack was flooded. The road between St. Erth and St. Erth station was flooded and the buses could not get through at one time.

blown in; the globes a petrol pump were blown off and the notice boards of several lodging-houses have been dismantled. At Angarrack, two trees weTe blown down, one in the river and the second one only missed nearby ihonse by a few inches. At Ventonleague

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