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{SHIPPING DISASTER OFF.İ IWOSHIMAIS.
A terrible shipping disaster occurred at the mouth of the Nagasaki harbour on the morning of the 1st instant, when the Ise-maru collided with the Norweigan steamer Calanda off Iwoshima, resulting in the sinking of the lat. ter vessel, with a loss of 33 lives, 19 of whom were those of foreigners. The circum stances attending the disaster are given in a statement made by a passenger on the Calanda to a representative of the Nagasaki Press, who
The Calanda left the harbour at a few minutės past seven, and steered for the Two shima light. Shortly, after the lights of a steamer, were seen some distance ahead. The whistle was blown to warn the other vessel, and the Culanda continued her course, which, was a southerly one. As no notice was taken of the first warning, another blast of long duration was given and this was answered in a similar method by the incoming steamer. By this time the two boats had approached each other so closely that it was at once seen that a collie Bion would be unavoidable. The lifeboats of. the Calanda were got ready for lowering, life- belts were issued to the passengers, and every thing possible was done to save the lives of all on board. The engines were ordered to go full speed astern, but before any appreciable ressult of this action were felt, the other steamer: crashed into the Calanda, striking her just abaft the starboard bow. The Calanda re- mained impaled for some minutes on the bows of the Japanese steamer, but the latter, which was also going full speed astern, released her self and the Calanda drifted away. After the separation of the two vessels, Captain Jensen turned his vessel round with the idea of beach ing hor, but she had not proceeded far before she filled and began to settle down. The captain. and second officer remained on the bridge until the water had reached their waists. Finding that their efforts to beach the vessel were futile, they endeavoured to save themselves by jumping into one of the lifeboats. They missed the boat, and were drawn down by the sinking vessel. On coming to the surface they were picked up by one of the boats of the Ise. From the time of the collision to the sinking of the steamer twelve minutes only are said to have elapsed."
The following is a list of the foreigners saved and drowned
SAVED,
Mrs. Krell and daughter, Mr. Dechanel and Mrs. Urchensky; Captain Rodionoff, Lieut.. Zelgheim, Messrs. Shidlovsky, Sredinsky, Nau- moff, Butin, Yaroslavsky, and Parfenieff.
DROWNED,
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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men leaped into the bay, but soon the collier | Canton, There wer swung - around, and, while boats were pick some cargo on ing up the struggling men the May Flint | former turned
The May Flist was the third largest sailing came up sank - bow first in ten fathoms of water, de 1 | until she reache vessel in the world and the longest that ever en revolvers, overawed
The tered this port. She was formerly the Persian and ransacked their lugge Monarch, an Atlantic liner, and made her removing the spoil into the maiden voyage after being rechristened from away whatever valuables they Baltimore to San Francisco in 1895 with 5,000 hands upon, they left. tons of coal. Her voyage was perilous and she entered port badly damaged by storms. She spread over 10,000 yards of canvas. Her gross tonnage was 3,576. She was built in 1880 at Flint was 351.8 feet, width 42.9 feet and depth Dumbarton, Scotland. The length of the May 16.2 feet. W. E. Mighell was managing own er and her home port was San Francisco. and carrying passengers and freight from Lon. While still known as the Persian Monarch don to New York, she ran aground on the night of May 3, 1894, on the sandy shore at Shinne off on a tag. On her first trip she was badly cook Hight, Long island. All hands were taken damaged in a storm. While on the return trip taken back to New York by a sister ahip, the she began leaking badly in mid-ocean and was Assyrian Monarch, and she had various other harbour, which fortunately did little damage mishaps. Two years ago she was a fire in Kobe She was to have made her next passage to New York to load to Hongkong.
believed that ther captain was in collusion with them,
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THR › VICEROYALTY OF THE TWO KWANG, It is now said that Tao Ma, the Manchu Viceroy of Shen-Kan, who was transferred to the Two Kwang, is not coming to Canton, hav ing resigned on socount of ill-health. As a rule to Cantonese, as he is apt to say that the latter a Manchu is neither friendly to foreigners nor
are tainted with Christianity and have had a good deal to do with foreigners.
STHE FOREIGN FLEET OFF SHAMEEN. Canton river, lying opposite Shameen,iz. the There are at present eight gunboats in the
I reported in my letter of the 20th September the case of some servants of a house of ill-fame panied two girls to a restaurant to sing and in San Tin Tee, opposite Shameen, who accom- drink, and how on account of a Chinaman tread- ing on the foot of one of the girls 'a, quarrel The relatives of the deceased had the, dead arose, resulting in four men being shot dead- bodies carried in their coffins and placed in the house where the girls stay, and demanded. * the demand, had walls built round and enclosed squeeze: The mistress of the house, resisting the coffins instead of removing them. A curious and their guests were singing and drinking scene i resulted therefrom, for while the girls upstairs; the relatives of the deceased were below. mournfully crying and making lamentations
2. 3) {Canton, 10th October;
BIWAICHOW.
・⠀ TROUBLE AT WUCHOW AND
News has reached Canton that there have been local disturbances in Wuchow and Wai-
argent telegram to the Viceroy here, asking for chow, The Magistrate of Waichow sent an the immediate despatch of a large body of troops to suppress the rioting, et
MORE FRENCH ASSISTANCE TO THE OFFICIALS. - There were also anti-Christian riots in Chung Luk, Tung Kun, and Ka Hing Chow, fiye mis- sion houses in the latter place being looted and destroyed A French gunbcat has gone to the scene of disturbance to co-operate with the Chinese officials in suppressing it. It seems strange that at the present epoch, when military forces are quite necessary for the suppression of local risings, the military never can agree with the civil mandarins, and whatever order the latter give the former always refuse to carry ont; so it was by an arrangement for co-opera- tion made between the Viceroy Tak and the French Consul M. Hardouin that the French gunboat was despatched to co-operate with the Chinese officials. As the Avalanche has done such good work in Shon Tak it is to be hoped that the Argus will follow her example.
THE REFORMERS THREATENING, A few days ago one of the Consula, ceived a letter signed by a few Reformers," saying that they will shortly start a rebellion precaution for all Congals and other foreigners in Canton, and that it would be beffòr as a
Mrs. de Camille, Mrs. Mack, Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Naumoff, Mrs. Zaborovsky, Mrs. Vaviloff, and Mrs. Krell & infant child, Messrs. Rosen: French Vigilant, Arqué, Avalanche, and Cómèté, | to clear out of Shameen.s thal, Richardson, de Vercours, Zaborovsky, the German Tiger and Luchs, the EnglishOMAN | NEW TAŬTAI FOR SWATOW Chermy, Shestopaltoff, and Herbstein.
Britomart, and American Don Juan d Austria, The Taotai of Swatow being degraded and The Luchs' and Don Juan d'Austria will soon removed from his post on account of his anti- leave, and other ships will come to take their foreign policy, which had caused disturbances places: This is a pretty strong fleet and would there, the Superintendent of the Canton lekin be quite able to reduce the whole city within Bureau is appointed in his stead. A few days three hours in case of disturbance.
before his departure for Swatow he made official calls upon the Consuls in Shameen, and reiter- ated his assurances of friendly feeling to them, declaring that he would do his best to take care of the interests of the foreign residents and to protect the missionaries there, t
WRECK OF THE “MAY FLINT"
The four-masted barque May Flint, which left Hongkong on February 28th last for Port Nesh, and arrived at that port after a passage of 107 days, and after her delay having given rise to speculation in re-insurance that netted $50,000 to her owners, has been wrecked in the Bay at San Francisco with a loss of four of her crew. It appears that the Flint laden with coal on September 8th came up the bay under full saif and without a pilot In contending against a strong tide and the danger of collision with the multitude of craft taking part in naval parade, the captain of the collier kept his vessel well in the shore, but the flood caught the Flint and carried her out toward the battleship Iowa. Then came a desperate attempt to clear thề battleship, but the collier refused to answer to her helm, and crashed against the Iowa's bow, The Flint's topsail yards were carried away in the collision, and the crippled collier in drawing away struck the ram of the Iowa. With a hole in her bow and the water pouring in the Flint cleared herself of the ram and drove , only to meet with another disaster: «Before
loomed the lumber laden
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dette the Flint c shed: The of the ships became entangled land for
seemed doomed and some of the
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HENDADA MING ANNIVERSARY. ⠀⠀ The 15th day of the intercalary 8th moon was not observed by the Chinese here as the moon festival as it was last month, because the Ming dynasty lost its empire on this same day to the Manchus. As for the last month or so there have been rumours that on this anniver sary there would be disturbances, the Acting Viceroy ordered strict watch to be kept, and mounted patrols were to be seen going about the street during the day, preceded by a pair of trumpeters blowing vigorously! tiled TAKE ABOOT-TRADE QUARRELS MIEGE
The division of labour here is so much more strictly observed than it is elsewhere that it has led recently to a serious affray, which resulted in the murder of four men. “A shoemaker is not permitted to make a whole pair of shoes; he to another shop to be healed and soled, Between makes the upper part of them, and sends them
these two branches of the boot trade there was » quarrel the other day, followed by a shooting affray, four men being killed.
ANOTHER PIRACY CASE
Shot
Shou Shan, the Tartar General of Heilung) chiang (North Manchuria), whose defe Russians at: Kirin is reported from Chinese sources, had already been ordered to resign to prepare for investigation into- Yen Mow being lappointed to Shan was the first Tartar General in Ma to begin sotive operations against going so far as to bombard the Russian side of the Ai He and Chin Chang, his post, it seems Governor of Moukden,
of
On the 1st of October a stem-launch, the Fuk Sang, left Bankong in the Namhoi district for: the enemy sont
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