THE CHINA MAIL.
There have been other departures from the former abridged project which explain other minor additions to the aggrogato es timate of oret. The most important ol
Mails.
Sir Robert Rawlinson in this cohuestion, the first and most notable change in the carlier designs was one which at once very seriously increased the astiasto of cost by £34,000, and this was the these changes is the revareion to the ori: Occidental & Oriental Steam- enstitution of the earth dam formerly pro-ginal home of a surfaco conduit ruusing posed, by one of granita masonry and con- along the contours of the hills overlooking
Ship Company.
[No. 8966 NoTEMBER 24, 1885.
Aerchant Vessels in Hongkong Barbour.
Vessel Name
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Consignees or agents.
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from the valley above Causeway Bay as far crete. It is vory neegsenry, oven though the Happy Yalloy and Watani, în lise o TARING CARGO AND PASSENGERS-Amigo,
at the risk of prolixity, to follow and the cheaper, but lean desirable expodica capitulate all the changes and improvements of an underground pipe down the Mong which have followed the original design for noich ang Valley and urider the Raco andments and improvements that we had in 1876 only in order to avoid initial there
water-works. It is to those structural Coarse meadows, to which cecourse, Was
owe those marked increases in the estimate expense. of coat which have caused surprise and which but. for this explanation might be unjustly ascribed solely to miscalculation or extravaganco,
THE ITAM WATER WORKS.". Below will be found another portion of Mr Price's report on the Water Sopply
The topographical oxenuation of the island having exhausted the Southern dis. trials, now passed along the northern slope as Mount Parker without any satisfnatory results, and was finally brought to a close in the Tytam Valley, whore the nearest approximation to the required condition was found. The main objection to gravi tion works in the Tytam Valley lay co viously in the fact that the latter was on the wrong side of the island and that in order to bring the water into towa it would be necessary to pierce the dividing of [ridge of mountains by means of a short direct van- nel or to adopt the alternative of following the hill contours along the surface by an unduly long and circuitous route passing round the hill-apura overlooking
Doop Water Bay and Repulse Hay with short tunnek. For the rest, the topography of the
valley ran
ras favourable beyond measure to the construction of
tion of large werke opable
The subject of masonry versus earth reservoir-dams is one which has greatly occupied the attention of the engineering profession during the last fifteen years.
Within this period a consongus of scienti is opinion apposts to have declared in favour of masonry notwithstanding the greatly increased cost, as against earthen and paddied clay dawa, for height of 100
of expansion in the future if desired. The feet or exceeding 100 feet. Lofty earthen Tylam gorge was found to be go nar-structures of this typo are known only in
"England. The French and other Con-
(To be continued)
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OURSE, DISTANCE, AVERAGE SPEED TABLES,
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Glanece RETURN PASSAGEs. Passengers, who
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row as to admit of the formation of a dospincutal engineers kave always rejected VAвious oriteR TABLES AND NOTES, have paid full farc, re-embarking at San Glen you
lake over 28 mares in extant, impounding nearly 300 millions of gallons by means of a dam only about 400 feet long. The gathering ground abovel, comprised 700 statute acres yielding ander a minimum rainfall of 60 inches, 316 million gallons of surfacedrainage, by far the largest water yield in the Colony, and the point of delivery could be kept up as high as 10 foot above level of the cen-an-elevation autoient. by high to serve nine-tenths of the houses
the
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Francisco for China or Japan (or vice verga).
within six months, will be allowed a discount Grafton
Rowin
Dutch str. 1291 Ost
Lesmation
Haiphong
Trieste, &o
Raigon
Amor!
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Dan. str. 298 Nov. Arnhold Karbarg & Co. Ger str. 771 Nov. 24 Wiolor & Co
A-Hun.at. 2486 Nov. 210. Bachrach. Brittr 2077 Nov 12 Adamson, Bell & Co. Brit ste 1300 Nov 23 Melchors & Co
"Ger, str. 780 Oct/
nator Co.
“Matheson & 0% Spa 45 Nov. 23 komedios &
Brit. str. 1030 Nov Arnhold, Karbarg & Co. Geri
674 Nov. 113man & Co. Dutch at 1428 Nov. 1Jline, Matheson & Co. Brik str. 1460 Nov. 22 Melchers & Co Brit:
rit str. 648 Nov. 1R Marty Ger. at 1197 Nov. 178. 3. Tripp Briber 614 Nov, 24 Russell & On Ger, str 166 Col 18 Wieler & Co. Spankestr. 054 Nov. 24 Brands & Co. Dutah str. 1409 Nov 24 Melchers & Co. Balat. 1300 Oct 23 Russell & Do.
17 1801 Nov
Str. 1909 Nov. st. 1995 Oct str. 1410 Nov Gezat 1093 No. Brit. str. 1108 Nor, Brit str. 1014 Nov. Brati stx: 277 Nov
sir 297 No
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Russell & Co, 24Gibb, Tavingston & Co. 22 Douglas Steamship Co
Eduard Schellbass & Co. Wieler & Contr
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Matheson atr. 632 Nov. str. 1095 Nov 20 Tulig Keo & Co
882 Nov. 20 Douglas Stedmship Co. 1785 Nor. 24 Amhold, Harberg & Co str. 761 Nov. 24Siemanen & Co. Br. 3807 Nov. 130: & 0, 8, 8. Co. Span str. 284 Sept. 4 Remedios & Co Brik. str. 1011 Nov. 23 Yuon Fut Hong Bric tug. 161 Jane H. K. & W. Dook Co. Brit, str. 1186 Nor. 223iemasen &
•Co. Spa at 531 Nov 22 Dann, Mulbys & Co. str. 362 Nor. 24. R. Marty Feb.
Beit atr. 1281 Nor 31 Romell & Co.
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of 20 % from Return Fare; if 10-ombarking Gulf of Suez..... within one year, an allowance of 10% wil Hadoong bo mads from Return Fate. Pro-Fail Ko Idana.... & Co. turn Passage Orders, availble for one year, Ingraben,
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in Victorin Tho valley was also found to of the Bradfield reservoir dan nake the China Mail has been printed in PAM destined to porte beyond. San Francisco,
for the
of
'CHINA MAIL' OFFICE Mesara, LANE, CRAWFORD
FALCONER & Ou. Hongkong, September 2, 1884.
TRIAL or THE REPORT or
LOGAN AT CANTON that appeared in PHLET FOUM, and is now on Sale.would bo sent to the Company's Offloce, Ningchow
addressed to the Ocilcctor of Customs, San | Ningpo Prios, 30 Conts.
Fraticazo.
Oceanic Pasig Phrn Chom Klao Pilot Fak Plaioneller Romulus
Hongkony, October 3, 1883.
Insurances.
THE LONDON ASSURANCE
Incorporated (BY ROYAL CEARTES OF His Majesty King George, The First,
a things of chance, and with us, I apprehend thair allurement has been only their comparative economy of cust. They are not of ancient origin in the United To be obtained at the Kingdom, having been borrowed only since our conquest of India, from the practice of the Hindoos, with whom however bunds of earth for the creation of artificial lakes and tanks have acidem as a rule excooded a height of 100 feet. No doubt the bursting nor Shot contain tributary streams amounting cut. field in 1864, did such to modify previous lectively to nearly 150,000 galicus a day and opinions as to the efficacy of lofty dans of and earth. In this case a leak had prostising to make together with the crept into the heart of the bank by pounded water an aggregate storage of cut. foing the outside surface of the large fol. siderably
over 300 million March. icon aapply-pinus that travernd the strug long dry auasun 1
between
ween October The cleanr the capabilities of the site ware
rare ture, and this leak having sncceeded in al compared with those the other Placen
penetrating neroaa the alay heart on en that had been surveyed, the clearer and tho the other sido, the fund bursting of
it became, in spite of the in- the dam hecams simply a matter more uhvicus tervening riche of mountains, that it was momente. Unfortimately this happened in the only locality to which the Colony could the night, and the Bradfield reservoir sud- liberated, was hurled down the valley denly look for the supply of the future, and in
sweeping before it with irresistible fores- this conviction, when there remained other sources to explore, plans for gravita villages, mills and houses, and causing a loss
life and property that has made the es tion works at
Tytam inwinding an earth and puddled clay dam, were elaborated and sub tastrophe historical. But however dooply mitted to the Colonial Government together to be deplored, it has been neversed that with the satininte of the cost which amount this calamity has been productive indirectly ed to $259,000.
of mush good, for it caused many municipal This
original estimate of £250,003, mab-and other water authorities throughout the mitted
far back as 1873, bas sice passed country, to look to the condition and stabi through
many and very considerable ity of sucla of their own reservoir danis as changer, figuring at a much smaller sam vere made of earth and clay. At the pre- and then rising agait, according to the sout time inany of the deeper roservoirs of cortailments or the extensions which at one England are never filled to their proper time and another the original design has hight for fear of necidonis. In order to undergone between the years 1873 and prevent rupture, the greatest caution is ex
rcised in the management of theso dama, below the the water being kept 20 or 30 foot balo
1 originally designed. would seein
It so that in addition to these experie
experiences, the construction of lofty earthen-dams ro-
1883.
as
of
In 1875, a year of unprecedented com- mercial depression in the Colony, notwith-level standing that in addition to a comparative- ly empty Treasury, the Government had before it the heavy prospective patlay ofceived, shortly before his death, the con
a new Praya wall to replace that destroyed in the memorable typhoon of the prorious the Legislative Council felt that it
who then stood at the head of the civil en- lemnation of Professor Macquorn Rankine,
innering profession of England in
hich he wrote
A. D. 1720.
THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the abure Corporation are prepared to grant Insurances as follows
Marine Department. Policies at current rates, payable eithor hero, in London, or at the principal Ports of India, Obius anil Australia.
Fire Department. Policies sated for long or short periods at
Jurrent cuium.
Life Department. Policion Issued for aums not exceeding £3,000 at reduced ratos.
HOLLIDAY, WISE &-0%. "Hongkong, July 25, 1672.
496
THE STRAITS INSURANCE COM- PANY, LIMITED..
10gger postpone action in respect anal branch. In a paper thich 18 thea- ́HE Uadersigned having been appointed
of the defective water-supply of the town,
Looking however to the Colonial resources as they then stood, the Government were only able to agree to the expedient of ad- opting the Trtam project in a very reduced and modified form The proposed da was not to be so high, and the volume water be impounded was to
of
to
bo le83. The larger conduit was to
in connectioni i with the thea proposed water supply of Bombay, Professor Rankine lail tdown, that it
it was doubtful whether any arthen dam was to be relied on where the depth of water exceeded 100 or 130 feet,
In these cironmetarecs, when in 1882 the old proposition of 1873 for An earthou
AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to GRANT POLICIES OF MARINE RISKS to all parts of the World, at current rates.
·ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, November 5, 1835.
856
For further information as to Freight or Passage, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 601, Quein's Road Coutral,
7.D. HARMAN Acting Aycut Hongkong, November 14, 1886.
NOTICE.
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N TUESDAY, the la: Descobar,
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F. Whitney Emily Above places,
Felor and Specie will be registered for Franklin Cargo and
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Shipping Orders will be granted until
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Lottie Fairfield Agency's Office,) Contants and value of Packages are ro-Lucia
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Nanaimo. For farther particulars, apply at the Nicoya Company's Office
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embankment at Tytani cane again under SINGAPORE INSURANCE COMPANY, be sent on board; they must be left at review, the flood of new fight that had been મેલો i
234
be substituted by a smaller iron pipo; I on this particular branch of reservoir the service reservoir in town was to be construction during the long intervening dispensed with, the subsidiary supply from sleep of nine years, decided me to recon wayside feodors was to be Babed, and bead a masonry dam in spite of the in-“
be relingu
crossed cost. It is true that I had to deal many other minor adjuncts considered in the first scheme indispensable to an effi-
only with a height of ninety feet and might red, were still therefore have adhered to cient water supply, and since revived, were.
earthen to be given up, for the time, the intention fabrid without incurring danger, but I cuucoived that in future yours, as the being to revect to them and add them the sohome later, as means allowed. The cities of the Colony increased with the reduced cost of this very extensive and up-
the increase of the growth of Victoria Aparing abridgement of the original project population, my auccessors in office would be 1.600, called upon to raise the height of the bank was approximately calculated at £122,600, sall of which amount £72,600 represented the in order to impound more water, and that. reduced damn and reservoir, and £50,000 conditio structure should be
the pipes in order to conduct the
water ne
ab initio as one that must even-
the cost of making the tunnel and laying trially be carried up over the 100 feet in far as the town maius at Bowringtons. We height. A lank through the Tytam dana it built of earth and puddled clay, would
have here therefore à contraction of the moan the destruction and total sweeping estimato from £250,000 to £123,000, on th
than half. I should not otait to en-way of the antire structure and the con-
Icss tion, however,
LIMITED.
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against FIRE ou vsual terins at E are prepared to GRANT POLICIES Current Rares.
All Contributors of business, whether-Share- liters or not, are catitled to share in the
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents
Bulites.
- Eungkong, July, 1885.
LANCASHIRE INSURANCE
·COMPANY..
(FIRE AND LIFE)
1230
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP -
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Agent. Hongkong, November 19, 1885.
2003
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matters of detail which brought it up to / fasɛn only affect its safety. In Colonial Vessels in Harbour, at the usual Termas Japan, the United States, and Europe,
8. D. Carleton
Three Brothers vives
Tobago Two Boya Villa de Rivadavia
Freeman
M. de Camus
078 Nov. 22 Melchers & Co str. 873 Nov. 18 Arnheld, Karberg & Co. Ger. str. 818 Nov. 28 Wieler Co
str.
Brit
Brit
313 Nov. 23 Chinese
Fit. th 166 Dec 2 Prútau & Co.
22
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24 Wieler & Co.
Brit boe 444 Nov. 24 Chinese
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der bae 123 Oct. 31 Wieler & Co. Brit boe, 977 Oct 30 Alessageries Maritimas
Nor 10 Siemason & Co. Gerbg 235 Aug. 4 Melchers & Co.. Span. sh 746 Nov. 18 Omler
Colonies
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Philippines
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296 Nor Amer. sh. 120 1240
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9 770 Aug
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18 Siemsson & Co.
10 Pustan & Co.
barnhold, Karberg & Co,
8ya Woo Long 13 Wieler. Ce 30 Wieler & Co.
16 Puntau & Co.
18 Russell & Co.
19 Knivell & Co.
Bussell & Co.
18 Arnhold
Amer. ab Lech 39 Lane, Crawford & Co.
ab. 1116 Oct 22 Order, Karberg & Co.
626 Oct 29
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Amer. 1881
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Amer. sch, 164 Rupt. 11Blackhead & Co. Span. by 274 Nov. 19 Braudao & Co.
Philippines
Bangkok
London, &o Victoria, BC,
Sangapore
K'loon Dook
San Francisco:
London, do."
Corton Dook"
New York
New York
Now York
Her Britannic Majesty's Ships in the China Squadron.
Name
Agamemnon
THROUGH NEW YORK, A Titan OVERLAND RAILWAYS, AND TOUCHING AT YOKOHAMA, AND SAN FANCISCO.
THE U. 8. Mail Steamship CITY OF. that the £122,600 underwent auquent loss of the capital sunk in its con- THE Undersigned are prepared to grant
RIO DE JANEIRO will bo-dos- a alight revision almost immediately after-
struction. Alsa throngh the same dam
POLICIES against the Eisk of FIRE on patched. for San Francisco, via Yokohama, warda in oponection with some small if made of masonry or cement-coucreto, Buildings or on Goods stored thoroin, on ou WEDNESDAY, the 9th December, as
And --so much loss of water does
Goods on board Vessels and on Hulls of 3 pm, taking Passengers and Freight for wurka, unavoidably Bubject
and Conditions.
Through Bills of Lading issued for trans
to Yokohama and ether Japan Albatrose Perts, to San Francisco, to Atlantis and and transmitted to the Directora
Uhampion If required, protection will be granted on: Railways, to Hasina, Trinidad, and dieopatin
Central Cookonfer and South America, by the connecting Steamers.
France Tickets om
$124,000.-
not in any way
At this time it was also conacived that
while
to
other risks and difficulties adfesting ultimate or to imparfuct supervision and to
unquestionably
aisals for Life Assurances will be c
menting the supply, it would avert any unstability unknown to auginaers at home, it for their decisioni, A. Gulana Cities of the United States, IN Over-
it would be of material help in ag- due straining of the alender resources of the Colony, if for the stream only were diverted the Trtamina
ef
ázdacious*.
Victoria Paving the man important and the safest methods of construction every frst class Lives up to £1000 on a Single Demerara, and to ports inpany 3 But Ouraçao
expensive
and
future
haring
to some also would appear to have been the views a storage reservoir to some Mr. Chadwick, who in his preliminary, Pasais or any other information, apply so. eriod when the new Prays wall
been finished and paid
if there
nd brought t
ia to be any venturing
to adopt
Life.
undertaking of
of building the dam
dam though involving increased cost,
There
For Rates of Fremiums, forms of pro-
OF
ARNHOLD, KALBENO & Co.y Agents, Hongkong & Canton, Hongkong, January 4, 1867.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
I
for, put to the Imperial Government, written
water supply, advocated
the Government would be in a better posi- from Hongkong, on the subject of the
tion to zapet new liabilities, and this view
osatod independently of of the matter having been put before the in lien of the earthen m
the anything I had advanced, a masonry dam Secretary of State in 1876, by Mr. Gardiner in 1873, and the point raised by Mr. Olad- mbankment proposed Austin, then administering Govern ment, the Earl of Carnarvon, who at that wick having been referred hy the Earl
Robert Rawlinson replied that Kimberley to the Consulting Engineer, Sir
GILMAN & Jo. Hongkong, January 1, 1882.
Daring
and
granted to Balk Germany
lines of Steamers.
by
all Expoir RETURN PASSAGES-Passergers, who
Firebrand Flying Fish have paid full fare, re-embarking at Ban Linnet have Francisco for China or Japan (or vice versa) Merlin within six mouths, will be allowed a discount Midge of 20% front Keturn if re-embarking Pegasus
with one your 10-
be made from Return
Rambler
Pre-Paid Re- Sapphire
THE Undersigned, AGENTS of the above turn Fassaga Ortlers, available for one year; far as he
Dompany, aro authorized to Insura will be issued at a Discount of 28% fro
Tweed Retura Fare. These allowances do not a against FIRE at Current Rates.
apply Victor Emanuel From China
China and Japan to Vigilant 14 Buy Jares
Wanderer Freight will be received on board until 4
Wivern day previous to sailing. Parcel
Zephyr Packages will be received at the office until
Pm same day; all Parcel
NOTICE
QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COM. PANY.
time hel3 the Seals of the Colonial Depart ment, assented to this arrangement of dividing the work into two separate instal was concerned, it would not be possible ments, and in the following year sauctioned for him to recommend to the Government The expenditure, of £50,000 for bringing any ambukment for the Tytam Valley that
w not a atone or cement concrete one, Bowrington. At this the Tytream.to.
This point finally decided in favvur of point the dam and reservoir worke having
thus been definitely postponed the estimate meaty and absolute security
guaranteed, the following natural question bed another £74,000, and stood at the
motioned by the Secretary of new tain is now to be of
arose out of the decision, If the proposed be of masonry and however, no action was taken therefore capable of being increased to any
jeopardy
to its stability rasped the proposed now water works height without
10. In 1889 the urgent require why not raise it at once by another twenty mond the Chinese population and the ao fast, and thus enable it to impound an.
mands of the Public Health areaad volume of water, one sufficiently per Government seriously to co-palation of 125,000, to which number the large to yield 10 gallons day for n po- dom of reverting, not to the but to the original project in increming water consumers of Victoria are course now rendered feasible rapidly attaining! This proposition was ored Susncial Tuition of the to be commended not alone on the ground by its consequently improved of public sanitation and
convenience, bot the event of its electing to carry on the core of economy, since it would the work with borrowed money and cost less to superpass the extra height
pa successive relays of future twenty feet now that a working Most the barben of the payment. At out was to be opened on the spot, th
stage also matters were quickened by later when all the expense of
incebanica from England and othe official report addressed to Her Majes-ch Government by the Sanitary Cummis penses of install tion
·
Undersigned aro prepared to nosept Risks on First Class Godowns at 3 cent, not premium per annum.
NORTON & Co., Agenta. Hongkong, May 19, 1881.
WINTER TIME TABLE.
THE KOWLOON FERRY,
STEAM-LADACÍ MORNING STAR Bains DAY sw Femmy Har between other CXPedilar's Wharf saf (n-Tsa-"[ou at the
Establ
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Consular
should be marked to arcel Packages
• didrese i rull value of samo 1 to destined to posts beyond Ban Francisco should be sent to the Company's Offices in Scaled Envelopes, addressed to the Collector
Customs at San Franosen
Rig
d. s. turret ironclad
Tons Guris. 18LP%
Captains
Commander Chas. Hinke
Captain A. Rowlett
Captain H. N. Hippisley
Boteler
Lisul, Com. H. H
Captain J. G. J, Magmar
Commander Davis
Lieu Commander Cochrane -Com 2. R. Adaros --- Leux Com. D. 1. Dickson Usprain J. P. Maclear.
Commander Geo. W.
8010
6330
Captain Samuel Long
composite screw noop
940
double-screw iron frigate
*6010.
4390
Captain Hugo L-Pearson
Corvette,
2580
2310
corvette
2880
2010
470
corvette
2389
2540
composite sloop
940
920
double-scrow gunbost
360
340
gunboat sloop
(400)
double-screw gun-Vessel
1050
gimboat
430
430
430
double-screw gun-vessal composite screw sloop
1190
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Corvette
830 1970
12
2330
double-screw gaz-Temel
1010
double-screw ganbest
3603
receiving ship
paddle despatch-vessel
8351
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gunboat
Larret-ship
925 1800
1460
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530
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Commander H. T Grenfell
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Apolo C. D. HARMAN,
Champlain Cornets Acting Agent..
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Hongkong, November 14, 1885,
FREDERIC ALGAR,
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