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THE FRIEND OF CHINA-AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE,
OBSERVATIONS &c., ON THE LATE TYPHOÒN.
Dale.
Hours,
Position.
Bartr. Shw. Wind
A. M. P.
Lat Long
Augt
30
31 Noon
6
Chusan harbour 20.60 85 Buffaloes nose Quesans
29.80 85
S.S.E. 8. E. E.N.E.
22
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12TC.Montague 55 81 N.E.b.E.
Itanding toS. E.
50
N.E.
Sept
1sit
2
from Quesans!
3
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8
Bore away
50
N.N.E.
S. b. W.
Noon
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20.
2
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4
53
45
» 40
9
11
12
12
30
28.90
- 40.
30
80 90
N.b.W.
N.N.W.
REMARKS IN SHIP WANDERER.
Moderate steady weather, midnight calm. Until noon, calm, and light airs.
Light breeze, hazy atmosphere, cloudy and passing shawers, on opening the sea gates an immense swell from theE. SE. wind increasing.
Strong breaze, hazy, squally, with showels, vivid lighting to the North at intervals, East- erly sea increasing and rendering ship uneasy. Smart squalls, heavy rain and much ligh- tening reduced sail.
Hazy-increasing wind, with dark threatning appearances extra secured anchor, spars and hatches
Wind coming down in heavy short gusts, weather, ugly, and fearfully threatening, sea tremendously, high and very confused; east- erly sea predominating, scudding under close reefed main topsail and foresail,put spare gask- ets round the furled sails.-
Impossible to scud any longer with safety brought the ship to, on larboard tack, under close reefed main topsail the sail flew to rib. bands-laying to, with tarpauling in mizen
rig= ging the tempest increased in violence-vessel laying over with her main deck in the water nothing visible for sen drift.
Blowing a complete hurricane-lost main mast head and main topmast, &c., cut away weather backstays &c., in the hope of disen. W.b.Ngaging the wreck at 5.30 r. M. dipped the lee,
quater boat, obliged to cut her adrift from the w.s.wship; at 6 P.. the fore and main courses got adrift, and shook to pieces, and mizen, top gal- lant mast went,ship labouring very heavy-with tremendous sea. strained the rudder and split the main brace. The heaviest of the Typhoon occurred between 6 P.M. and midnight. 11 P.M. commenced lightning vividly.
S.W.
29.00 85
20.
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8
40
M
NooL
27 52 122.38
60
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South S.E. N.E.
127° 2
121.54
3d. Noor
» 70
2.3J
E.
N.E.
Sept.
1:1
9 Chusan harbou 11.30
29.40
30
20
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60
57
3.90 4
30
22
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4.30 5-
25
$28
N.W.
At 3 A.M. wind subsiding with tremendous cross confused sea, ship labouring very heavy commenced clearing away the wreck.
REMARKS ON BOARD BARK "MASDEU"
CHUSAN HARBOUR.
Heavy gusts of wind and squally, with much rain 10,30 P. M. down top gallant yards and
masts.
From 2-30 to 3--30 A. M. greatest fury with deluge of rain, the violence of the wind surpassing all that ever I experienced: at 4 A.M. calm and light airs.
5A, M. commenced blowing a gale from WNW. began to increasing in strength until 9 A.M.and moderate a little before noon, from this time barometer rose rapidly, every ship W.N.W. in the harbour drove more or less, none less
than three anchors down, some with four "Ina" drove upon a rock off Macclesfield bank. "Moira" went on shore upon Tea Island. Great destruction among the China boats and houses.
INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION,
The 26th of April 1842 is memorable, as the day, when King Kamehameha III., and the Chiefs of these Islands, signed the Total Abstinence
On the morning of the 26th of April 1843 without any pre- vious arrangement, the King and Chiefs belebrated the anniversary of that event in the follo
When the King signed the
brandy, wine, etc. remained
there for a 12 month untouch
a friend several casks, and uur
these intoxicating. forth. The ques them? The sugg
Ead of the Spir That however
for Public Sale. Let those whom it may concern reflect on that fact it is worth more to people who
know how to use it than a dozen of their big blue books, We find that the Queen's officers have seized a quan Eity of American lard na spermacet of Chave but to prova that it is
prodne
of the pig which
dese officers.
would not new
former ires, they
and exclu
dine free tradera
to obstruct im.
manjee-2 Casks and 2 Boxes Hardware to Ebram Mahomed -1 Cask Liquor to Pestonjee Ruttonjee-4 Boxes Cambay Stones to Burgorice Sapoorjee & Cliests Malwa Opium to Dadabhoy Horninsjee D ditto ditto Hormmajee Burjorjee-91 dilin dillo to Munchieren Cursetjce--10 ditto ditto to W. Henderson—4 dito do to D. Nusser Wanjee,
Export Manifest of Ship Chusan " J. Laird, Com. mander, to China, 14th August 1843,
2034 Boles 76 half Cotton, consigned to Messrs J Matheson and Co.-217 baga Gum, to Mahommedbhor 1 box Seeds, to Sir H. Pottinger Bombay Gende
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG KONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1843.
No new cases of the malignant fever (that of late decimated our population) have occurred during the past eleven days. Our Government it is expec ted will soon return hither from Macao.
We have on other occasions pointed out the ne glects and inconsistencies faults alike of omis- sion and commission which have arrested the pro- gress of the Colony in its gigantic infancy.
Compared with what it could, or should have been, all must admit Hongkong as now, is but a notable failure, the death-burth of the most promising settlement ever founded by Brush enterprise.
THE indisposition of the Editor must be his apo- logy for presenting a paper to his readers so made up of Extracts. He would however thank Cap-
tain T. B. Smith of the Ship interesting Meteorological detai phoon as observable on board his
the Masdeu.
For the narrative of the we are indebted to C.
Ben Brace, we sentiments, 88 **
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