December 4, 1895.]
HONGKONG GOLF CLUB,
The result of the competition for the Decem- ber Captain's Cup is as detailed below. It will be seen that the long-handicap men had matters all their own way. There were a fair number of entries, but fewer returned scores than usual:
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Mr. W. A. Duff.... Dr. J. Bell
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84
85
93
96
Mr. L. Saunderson, R.B. 92
16 77 18. 78 10 .82
Mr. C. H. Grace
97
15 82
Mr. W. J. Saunders
101
18
83
Mr. C. Palmer
95
11
Mr. H. L. Dalrymple
95
10
Major Thomas
107
18
89
-Sir F. Clarke
110 18
92
Mr. G. W. F. Playfair... 114 18
96
SWEEP.
Mr. W. A. Duff
93 16
77
Dr. J. Bell
98
18
80
Mr. C. H. Grace
97
15
82
Mr. C. Palmer
95 11 84 107 18
89 110 18 92 18 96
Major Thomas
Sir. F. Clarke.
Mr. G. W. F. Playfair.. 114
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATI‹ N.
There were nineteen members present on the 26th ult. to compete for the Short Range Cup, and some very good scores were made. The Cup was won by Mr. Stewart, and the Spoons by Mr. McDonald, Mr. Robinson, Private Gigg, and Mr. McLennan. The following
were the best scores :—
W. McDonald
500 600 Handi- To- yards. yards. cap.
tal. 71
32 31
8
W. Stewart..
29
34
4
67
E. Robinson
34
31
65
Private Gigg, R.B.
31
23 10
64
D. McLennan
31
32
63
Sergt.-Mjr. Morrish
33
30
63
29
63
27
4
61
28
Cr.-Sergt. Hopkins. 34 W. Duncan.. Corpl. Wooldrige
30 32
I
60
Only seven members were present on the 2nd inst. to shoot for the Long Range Cup. Mr. Andrew won it very easily. The Spoon was taken by Sergeant-Major Morrish. The follow ing were the best scores :—
J. Andrew Sergt.-Mjr. Morrish
W. Deas
Captain Palmer
Private Gigg, R.B..
800 900 Handi- To. yds. yds. cap tal 39 44 10 93 68
34 34
31 19
18
68
33 31 29
3
21
16
67 66
60000
THE“ EDGAR" ACCIDENT.
A letter from Mr. C. E. Lloyd-Thomas, who is an officer an board H.M.S. Edgar, has been received by his family in Yokohama, and the Japan Herald has kindly been furnished with the following extract. The writer was one of the survivors of the accident. The letter is dated H.M.S. Edgar, Chemulpo, 15th November:-
A fearful accident happened' the day before yesterday. My company and five officers (that includes Mr. Bruen. Rymer, myself, Hobson, and Macworth) were landed on an island for company drill. After finishing drill we marched back to the boat and embarked for the ship; seas began to come in over the bows and she was filling, so we turned round and made for the shore. When about 600 yards off the shore she filled and sank. Nearly everbody jumped overboard at once, but I couldn't. as I was in the bottom of the boat trying to bail out. When she sank I swam clear, and then swam back to get hold of something and found about a foot of the mast sticking up. I held on to that for a short time and then it sank. I then swam about looking for something and saw Hobson with a breaker and joined him, but we found it sinking and TB had to look out for something else, and I was just starting to swim for shore when I saw two men with a breaker, so I joined them, and just put my finger through the becket to keep myself afloat until I was picked up by a Russian steamboat. "We were in the water 15 minutes, temperature
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
LIUKUNGTAO.
429
48, and temp. of air 40 All of the officers | EVACUATION OF LIAUTUNG AND were saved, but only 18 men, making only 23, out of 71. I am afraid the men lost their heads completely, for they seemed to let go of things they had hold of. Our poor little drummer was picked up unconscious and died afterwards.
Tokyo, 23rd November. The evacuation of the island of Liukungtao, at Weihaiwei, by the Japanese garrison com- mences to-day. The artillery who form the garrison of the island will be sent across to Port Arthur, whence they will be sent to Japan with the first contingent of troops from Tiso- tang.
The evacuation of Lioatang will commence almost immediately and ought to be completed, if the weather is favourable, by the new year.
Tokyo; 28th November. According to telegrams received here yes- terday nearly all the Japanese have left New chwang, the Japanese officials having closed up the Custom-house on the 25th instant, em- barking for home the next day. The Custom- house is to be reopened by the Chinese authorities on the 30th, but what the arrangements are in the intervening days we have not heard, though presumably no revenue will be collected.—China. Gazette.
Shanghai, 29th November. The details of the sad disaster which occurred at Chemulpo on the 12th inst., by thesinking of a pinnace of H.M.S. Elgar, and the consequent drowning of forty-eight men. were brought to Shanghai by the Russian gunboat, Gremyastchy this morning. The Gremyastchy was lying off Rose Island when the accident occurred and witnessed the sad affair, the struggles of the sailors trying, many in vain, to swim against a strong current to reach the various men-of-war. Fortunately, the sinking of the boat was also witnessed by those on watch on the other men-of-war, and united efforts were promptly made to assist those sailors struggling in the water. It appears that on the morning of the 13th instant a number of sailors were landed on Hose Island, which lies in front of Chemulpo Point, for gunnery drill. The weather was quite fine at the time, though a strong wind was blowing from the north-west. At half-past one one party of the sailors, num- bering 71 men and six officers, put off in a large THE WRECK OF THE “NANKING.” sixteen-oared open pinnace to return to the Edgar. At this time the water was very rough, the tides meeting, and a strong wind blowing; it was also very cold. the thermometer registering eight degrees. Lying about eight cables length from the point of Rose Island, exactly opposite, was the French cruiser Alger, With a leading wind the men tried to sail the boat, proceeding first in the direction of the Alger, but the wind was too strong, the water too rough, and there was a five knot current running, consequently the sail was dropped. Whilst this was being done the boat edok a quantity of water on board. This im- eoded the progress of the boat, it being so thavily laden, and suddenly a wave broke over the boat and it filled immediately and sank at three cables' distance from the point it had but recently left. The boat sank about six cables north of the Russia gun- boat Koreytz, and at about three cables south of this vessel was the Edgar. Thus the Koreytz was directly in the Edgar's line of sight of the accident and those on board the latter vessel failed to see the boat sink. About midway between the Koreytz and Edgar, a few cables eastward was the Gremyastchy, and three cables south of her was the Yorktown. Thus the sad accident was in view of all the ships but the Edgar. Immediately on the disaster taking place those on watch on the Alger and Gremyastchy raised the alarm, which the other vessels prompt ly took up. The first boat to get to the scene was the steam launch of the Gremyastchy, for tunately lying handy with steam up.. Ensign Alexis Wesselago was in charge of this launch and he succeeded in saving five officers and nine sailors. The officers were floating on the oars, and four sailors were saved whilst clinging to an empty barrel which fortunately had been in the boat. The Alger open launch and picked up an officer and eight sailors, but her steam launch was at Chemulpo. The Yorktown, U S. cruiser, sent a steam launch and the Koreytz sent a boat and assisted in the saving altogether of twenty three men. Sadly enough the Edgar being unable to see the dis- aster was the last to lower a boat, and un- fortunately again her steam launch was on shore. The cause of the accident is attributed to the fact that the boat was too heavily laden considering the sea was so rough. One of the men saved by the Alger afterwards died on board from exposure, as the weather was ex- ceedingly cold. The Edgar sent down divers to recover any bodies, guns, and the launch, but when the Gremyastchy left nothing had been brought up. The boat sank in seven fathoms of water. The officers and crews of the various vessels on the
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A great fire occurred in the native town at Hankow on the night of the 15th inst., when over 2,000 houses belonging to the poorest class of people were destroyed..
Chefoo, 14th November. The " slight snow due, according to the Chinese calendar, on the 22nd of November appeared prematurely yesterday; and we awoke to find the hills and the whole landscape pre- senting a most wintry appearance. The steamer Nanking came to grief early in the morning while trying to get into the harbour by the North entrance, about 4 a.m., while the first now-squall was thickening the air; she missed the proper channel and struck on & reef of rocks close to Liukung tao, the Lighthouse Island. She was bound from Hongkong to Newchwang, and en route lost two of the four blades of her propeller. Being off Port Arthur when the loss of the second blade became ap- parent, the captain sought permission from the Japanese Admiral to put into the harbour and be refitted, but this was refused him. Rebuffed thus, he shaped a course for Chefoo, and had -- the ill-luck to arrive off our harbour before it was light enough for him to enter it without accident. When she struck the sea was fairly calm, but the tide was rising, and very soon a moderate northerly gale was blowing, driving the ship on to the rocks, while the waves sent sheets of foam fly- ing high above her masts, as could be seen clearly enough from the Club verandah.. One of the members of Messrs. Sietas' firm pulled over to the island in a six-oared gig, which was then dragged across and launched on the other side; but some difficulty was experienced in reaching the wreck, owing to the numerous rocks all about her. The ship was then full of water, which rose and fell with that outside, and she speedily became a total wreck. All hands were safely landed on the island, being put up in the lighthouse and adjacent village for the night.
Chefoo, 16th November. About four in the morning of the 13th inst., in a snowstorm, the Norwegian steamer Nan. king drifted ashore amongst a group of rocks on the north or outside of Kutau about two miles west of Kangkungtau or Lighthouse island. She has a hole amidships and six feet of water fore and aft and the cargo is being salved, but is mostly damaged. Mr. Jamieson, manager of Taku Tug and Lighter Co., is the here in the tug Heron and if the weather few days, which is not keeps fine for probable in November, he will float her out. The Nanking was bound from Hongkong to Newchwang direct with a general cargo and steaming up the Gulf of Liaotung got amongst the wreckage of a log junk and broke some blades off her propeller. She managed to go to Port Arthur, where the Japanese behaved in a very, arbitrary manner, refusing all assistance. and ordering her out of the port. She tried to make Chefce, but was driven across the west entrance to her present position. All depends upon the weather, as she is badly exposed to a northerly gale-N. C. Daily News correspon- Ident.