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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 18′′ MAY, 1901.
THE STRANDED “SOBRAON." port, but owing to the foggy and wet nature of
LATER DETAILS.
As we stated in our Shipping Extra on the 27th ult., the following information had been telegraphed to the local office of the P. & O. 8. N. | Company:
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Foochow, Friday evening.
Haeshin proceeded Sobraon this morning, French cruiser goes this afternoon with Armit (3rd Officer Sobraon) aboard. Mails in good order."
The following is a summary received by telegraph from Shanghai of passengers and cargo on board the Sobraon :—
Passengers-17 Adults and 5 children (first saloon), 40 Adults and 13 children (second saloon).
Cargo-Treasure $2,000 only, 818 bales fine silk, 51 bales waste silk, 250 tons strawbraid, 150 tons hides, 150 tons sundries.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. Ritchie requested the Telegraph Company to wire to Foochow to ascertain the state of the weather, and a reply came back to the effect that it was still calm. This news was reassuring, as, from the gusty wind and squally appearance of the sky here on Saturday morning, it was feared that a change might have set in, and that, too, from a quarter most inimical to the Sobraon,
The P. & O. Company ou Sunday afternoon received two telegrams from Foochow to the effect that 17 passengers and 89 mail bags had been landed at Foochow from a junk. This is presumably the junk that was reported from Sharp Peak. Passengers and baggage, pro- bably those landed on the island of Tung Yung, were also brought in by the steamer Irene.
The P. & O. Company intend paying the fares of passengers by the stranded steamer from Foochow to this port.
The Foochow agents of the P. & O. S. N. Company have arranged for the remainder of the stranded liner's passengers to come down to Hongkong either by the Fooksang, leaving on Monday, or by the Anping Maru, leaving to day.
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the weather, those on board could make out only the masts and funnels of the unfortunate Sobraon.
Sobraon when she left Shanghai on the 23rd The following is the passenger list of the
alt.:-
For London-Mr. J. Ferrier, Miss and Master Ferrier, Mrs. Southcott, Mrs. J. Huut and infant. Mrs. Phipps and three children, Dr., Mrs., the Misses and Master Alf. ed Hogg, Mrs. Horobin and three children, Mrs. Ogren Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hogg and four children, and two children, Capt., Mrs. and Master Seymour, M. and J. Black, Miss M. E. and Roope, Mrs. Sharman, Misses F. Tandberg, L. Master E. G. Fishe, Comdr. Drummond, R.N., J. West. T. H. Macklin, V. F. Gibbs, N. B. C. Capt. H. W. Hogg, Messrs. J. W. 8. Neeson, Brock, A. A. Godwin, D. M. Robertson, C. McKendrick, H. W. Kenneth. W. McAuslan, J. Grant and M. Ingram and Master T. H. Warmster, For Marseilles-Messrs. W. B. Sloan, H. W. Frost, J. Nasmith and H. Emanuel. For Hongkong-Mr. and Poliakoff, Mrs. Grandelman, Messrs. G. H. May Mrs. and Hiscook, and one Chinese assistant and Naral Details.
DEPUTATION TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR.
We have the honour to be, your Excellen your Excellency's most obedient servants,
YAU KING-SHAM. .HSIAO CHI-NAU.
WOO WAI-U......... WONG MAN-TOO, LAI SHUI-WING. WOO CHI-FIN. TSUE YING YANG. KWAU KING SING. WAU PING MAN, TONG FUO-MAN. TSO U HIM.
LUENG KING CHEONG. WONG YUN SHIU.
To H. E.
Sir A. HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,
Governor of Hongkong, etc., etc., etc. His Excellency then replied as follows:-- very great pleasure to be able to assist you and Gentlemen,-I assure you that it gave me the Cantonese people who found themselves exposed to danger from the Boxer movement in the North, and I congratulate you on your escape from that sorely harassed portion of China. The misguided men who entered upon wicked and foolish was an outbreak of hosti this anti-foreign movement must now see how lities that has already cost China hundreds of thousand of lives, and will cost her hun- dreds of millions of Taels... When you re- tarn to your homes you will be able to appreciate the blessings of peace, so happily. preserved in the Southern provinces, and I hope the day is not far distant when you may able to resume your medical work, for the future of China is in the hands of those young men who are now devoting themselves to An interesting ceremony, and
scientific and economic studies. I am glad to culated to promote Anglo-Chinese good learn from you that you have all been at one feeling in South China, took place at Go-time students of Queen's College, as you give a most agreeable evidence of the usefulness of that vernment House on Monday forenoon, when a deputation of Cantonese medical students of institution. I thank you for your expression of the Tientsin Medical College waited on H.E. good will, which I heartily reciprocate, not alone the Governor to present an address expressing towards you, but towards the Chinese people, in their gratitude to H.E. for the assistance whose welfare the King and the people of Great rendered last year to the Cantonese at Tientsin. Britain have always taken a friendly interest. It will be remembered that H E. guaranteed
The deputation then withdrew. the cost of the passages south of Cantonese desirous of leaving Tientsin (where they were at least in as much danger from the Boxers as were the European residents), while the money was raised by subscription among the leading Chinese merchants here. The deputation on Monday was introduced by Mr. Ts'oi Yeuk-Shan, and after they had been received by His cellency presented the following address :---
Hongkong, 26th April.
CANTONESE gratitude for LAST YEAR'S
ASSISTANCE.
one
cal.
THE VITRIOL OUTRAGE.
The hearing of the charge against George Allen was resunied on the 26th ult. before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy.
There is no definite news so far to hand regarding the steamer, but it is believed that no change has taken place in her position. Monday's advices from the scane of the accident stated that the weather was still calm, with a north-east breeze blowing. The glass was falling, The report of Captain Goddard, who left on the Ballarat on Saturday to survey and report on the position of the Sobraon, is now awaited. { The Ballarat was due to arrive at Tung Yang the Tientsin Medical College, do hereby desire he received a letter from his brother after the Island at five o'clock on Monday morning, and
Captain Goddard has instructions to wire at once all that there is to report. This report, Mr. Ritchie courteously informed us, would be sent in for publication.
On enquiry at the local branch of the P.&O. 8. N. Company yesterday morning, we were informed that there was nothing fresh to re- port with regard to the stranded liner or as to its position, and that no further telegrams had been received from the immediate scene of the accident. Captain Goddard's report was not yet to hand, we
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YOUR EXCELLENCY.
We, the undersigned medical students of
Young Kwan, fitter, employed at the Naval Ex-Yard, was the first witness examined, He said he was the younger brother of Yeung Kun, who is now undergoing a sentence of three years' imprisonment for complicity in the as-- sault upon Mr. Reek. Witness deposed that latter was sent to gaol—on 3rd April, he thought. After reading this letter witness went to see the the same day. Witness told the defendant that defendant, at half past seven on
seven on the evening of
he (the latter) owed Young Kun 880, and that the money was needed to support the convict's family.
to thank Your Excellency for the kind thoughts Tientsin when we were placed in imminent of us and our welfare during the troubles at danger.
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Through your timely despatches and instruc- tions to the British Officers in authority-up the north, we were placed in comparative safety. Indeed, through our own safety we were in a position to render some help to the sufferers, both atives and Europeans. This is due to Your Excellency's endeavours, and not to any thing we dare to boast of.
We humbly wish to place our gratitude on record and sincerely hope that Your Excellency The German mail steamer Trinzess- Irene, will accept not only our own thanks but also passed Tung Yung Island on her way to this that of our families and countrymen.
Witness
lawyered for $100, as he wanted to engage
The defendant, on learning that he proposed to engage Mr. Robinson, advised bim to engage Mr. Francis. The defendant then gave the witness Slut, for which the latter did not sign a receipt not, in fact, being asked to do so.
Mr. Hastings had no questions. Mr. T J Wild, a assistant: analyst, detailed the results of his examination of the stains on the wait of clothing worn by Mr. Reek when the vitriol was thrown over