CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. consideration by the Harbour Master. While affording suitable living space on board it will be generally of greater convenience than the present style of lighter.
Preparations were made for another typhoon on Sunday night or Monday morning, but fortunately there WBS no such
visitation although the wind was blowing rather strongly, and the sea was very rough.
LOOTERS STILL ACTIVE.
Notwithstanding the activity of the police looters continue their nefarious work, and daily the number of persons charged at the Magistracy on this count is increasing. It is believed that many unprincipled coolies have made large sums of money from proceeds of the flotsam they have stolen. The police on night duty at Kowloon have surprised numerous gadgs burying stolen treasure at night, and much valuable property has been recovered. Many coolies are leaving companies in which they have been employed, to take a hand at the more lucrative, although illegal, business of looting. Even some of the Indian police are unable to withstand the temptation. Yesterday the magistrates dealt with over eighteen cases. An Indian sergeant from Tsat-tsze-mui, near Quarry Bay, was charged with stealing four bags of sugar and $61 from a ship in distress. The hearing of the case was adjourned. At Kowloon City, two natives were arrested for being in unlawful possession of $1,300 worth of chemicals. They had no defence and were each fined $25. Among the many cases from Kow. loon was one in which a coolie was caught strip- ping copper from the bottom of a lighter on the beach. He was fined $25, and sat in the stocks for six hours at a point from which it was convenient for him to view his ill advised handi- work. A Chinese constable at Yaumati, who attempted to arrest four men with a bag con- taining four thousand odd oeuls in their possession, was severely handled by the looters. Before they could escape with their treasure, however, their arrest was effected. They were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment and six hours' stocks. In other cases which were heard the defendants were fined in amounts ranging from $5 to $25.
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MORE STORIES OF HEROISM.
Although late in the day, stories of heroism in the storm still come to hand. The launch Enoch was among other craft taking shelter in the Naval yard camber when the typhoon was at its height. A number of sampans there were knocked against each other by the fury of the waves, and one containing a woman and three children was smashed to pieces, and the occupants left struggling in the water. Eeeing their predicament, Mr. W. Baker, engineer in charge of the "Enoch" immediately jumped overboard and swam to their assistance. He succeeded in rescuing all four, and it is recorded that when safely landed the woman wrapped twenty cents in a piece of joss paper and handed it to her preserver with the remark "fungshui." Mr. Baker's action was a praiseworthy one, seeing the risk he ran of being hurt by the floating wreckage.
TREACHEROUS HAVENS.
Causeway Bay and Chinwan Bay in the New Territory, are generally supposed to be havens in which lighter craft can find protection from a storm. That they have afforded safety during previous storms is well known, but in the last the vessels lying in these refuges met the same fate as those exposed.
A POLICE LAUNCH THAT SURVIVED.
We are pleased to be able to state that police launch No. 3, in charge of Constable Boulger, which was supposed to have foundered at Taip, rode safely through the storm. With two anchors down, the crew managed to keep her head to the gale, and steamed against it until the wind and sea had spent themselves. "It was au anxious time," said constable Berry who was aboard, "and I wouldn't like to have to go through it again.
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SALVAGE AT KOWLOON.
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the Kowloon foreshore is strewn with the removal of which will not be accom for months. The soldiers have been from the work but gangs of coolies are stil busily engaged. On Sunday the Tung: Wa hospital boats were obliged, owing to the choppy sea, to discontinue their search for the dead. The last raft towed ashore : carried 750×2 corpses. The boats resumed the work yesterday, ».
The boisterous weather of the last few days has considerably delayed the work of salving, and of recovering the dead. A salvare steamer is at work trying to refloat the "Petrarch" while a dredger on which about a thousand coolies are employed is busily engaged cutting a channel by which it is hoped to tow the “Kinshan” into deep water. For miles along,'
Ann WANGBAL
The police are still toiling among the wreckage in the East. At Jardine's Point ten dead bodies were recovered from the debris yesterday. The work, however, is hard, as numerous anchors and a considerable portion of the Praya wall which collapsed have to be
removed at low tide.
· ITALIAN MISSION LOSSES. Four of the Italian mission churches in the New Territory, and a number of schools were completely destroyed. Others were seriously damaged.
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THE OBSERVATORY.
We learn that the Chamber of Commerce has selected Captain A. McD. Sommerville the China Navigation Company's 8.8. "Tean
to serve on the Commission appointed to inquire into the workings of the Hongkong Observatory.
CAPTAIN MBAD FOUND.
The body of Captain Mead, late masier of the steamer "Kwongohow" is believed to have been discovered. It was found on Stonecutters yesterday morning, and was unrecognisable but for certain wearing apparel.
BURIAL OF FRENCH SAILOR.
The body of one of the victims of the typhoon, one of the crew of the ill-fated Fronde, was buried yesterday at the Happy Valley in the Roman Catholic Cemetery. The coffin was brought ashore at Areenal Street and placed on a hearse alongside whic' marched a number of the crew with arms reversed. A large body of men followed, this being joined by a numerous British naval detachment.
SYMPATHY FROM SINGAPORE.
His Excellency the Governor has received a telegram from His Excellency the Governor of Singapore to the following effect:
23/9/06. Legislative Council desire to express deep sympathy with sufferers in recent typhoon
ANDERSON. To which His Excellency has replied as follows:
23/9/06.
Am most grateful to Colony for expression of sympathy which I will communicate to Colony.
CHINESE SYMPATHY.
NATHAN.
His Excellency the Governor received a visit- yesterday morning from Commodore Lin Chiao Chusi conveying a message of sympathy from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang. This message would have been conveyed by telegraph but for the breakdown of communica- tion.
H.E. the Viceroy has also sent a contribution of $3,000 to the Relief Fund and offered the services of two gunboats.
(Daily Press, 26th September.)
THE SAN CHEUNG.”
Contrary to general opinion, the owners of the river steamer "San Cheung" are still in hopes of raising her. A diver has been pat down, and states that she has sunk in about four feet of mud. So far as he could see her hall was sound, but he has decided to make another inspection of the vessel before giving his verdict.
LOOT.
Information has reached the police that large quantities of loot have been hidden on the hillside at East Point. Diligent search has been made, but so far nothing has been found. Detectives, however, are on the lookout.
At the Police Court yesterday there were many charges of unlawful possession. Most of the defendants were fined $5 api-ce.
Two natives who were caught in the not of removing goods from the foundered launch "Taikoo" were each sentenced to three weeks- hard labour.
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