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I will not attoupt, totheorize on these stails;
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I have some particulars to add to the list of after balling, administered to his mother who however admirable snob descriptions may he
pictorial effect. I ans, Sir, seats faithfully,
THEGS, BAMPSON, Canton, April 14th, 1878,
CHINA FAMINE RELIES FUND.
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A LONDON-MISSION,
* GRANGEAT, 4 April. 1878.
To His roellency Grotertior Pure Hennessy,
eat bank of the ritor. Suddenly it changed - The Chinese-account of the origin of theap its souria to about NN.W., ad awesping evor tornados or wbicwinds is curious though absurd North The Hongkong, Canton, and Macao So the hip, carried are awnings, stanchions, and I will give it is explained to me by a native, but In the centry road, which is 100 Font weldo Cuves which is boat Company's steamer Asukiang left Hongkong several lengths of main rail. In the midst of carrot be responsible for any errors in this some uniformity pravalls in the genom firesticu country. In this morning willi a large number of exour the tornado, the buoy to which the vessel was dragorian story, cortions incur on the south side of the road, that the Corende storiate for Canton-ever a biedred European marks fast lifted her moorings, which sent In A pond on the top of a mountain at Su Ulah may have been caused by the oddying of and between five and a hundred Chinese drifting It was with dillonity that the second distance of some eighty miles from Canton, the wind round the buildings agar whinh tha to be hoped
treas there were "nituted. From the westers to do the devastation worked by the scorse go the anchor. The wind at the time, was afunted tall, who is popularly supposed to ride. (h pet behind but rather to the eastward, nf vernment of Poking will not triumph over of Thoradny, a wuil an by enjoy the Trosh, wise counsels and even the apparent need of air and the scenery of the lip Many of the boring with great fary and sending the vesist apo the shade and to rule the whirlwind Once Jordan's) Llig trees have mos-ly fallon; to the the work. The unportance of the question Chiness also read up to inquate altor their frients 10 for over that a quantity of water came into upon the time, more than a hundred years ago, cat, eonth assterly dircation preysiling in the with some regularity, to the rantral point men- is to great that it cannot be the strongly the reports received of the calamity ascesarily the cargo ports, Comaging a quality of cargo, a school boy named A Tepung, at den Ui, when west portion, changing to but snd north-east urged upor the attention of the Chiness causing great anonducta amongst the native onu apsteing several cargo-hente that were along rambling on the hill side picked upon egg which tioned; from that want to the water verge the days a creature resemblingeerpent came out of the west changing to earth weet as the casterz WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIS'S officials. What is being undertaken in manity of Hongkong, sical of whom have friends side. The buildings on eliori appear a mass of he took back to school and kept After's fow trees have fallen so with some xerarity to the egg The fad kept the creature in bis dg of the storm's sourse is approached Thos Hosglong for climatic and wethetic cons in Canton. One well known Chinese gentlemonaire, and the river is covered with wrsokags,
thase frees have, mostly follon towards and ab. drawor at school for some months until one day right angles to o medial line of the stown's derations ought surely to be commenced ou went up to look after the body of his brother, grand see in the provinces of Shantung he had been reported kil ed, but he returned in
CANTON, Saturday Morning the aberaster noticed it and ordered him to course. The exceptions referred to in the ponth better spirit than he wont having found his Chilib, Shansi, Add Honan as a matter of
Sinos writing yostering I have been able to take it away. Ho sccordingly covered the side of the road, Dases of a few trace which brother alive and well. Many, however, it is fo
driven against the back of the house, the tross on" necessity to keep the country habitable.
be feared, were not so fortunesta. The steamer ather some further partlealars of this unpro-corpent (now several feet long) to the mountain have gone quarly due sath one of them is lult, bere af seven o'clock and arrived at Cantan edented calamity which has overtaken the City and putitina seotusled hole, where ba often visited the front (south side) of which have fallon to the at ball-past one. She left again at half-past five, of Esms and the district surrounding it. The and fed it. Sometimes when thỏ boy could west arriving at Hongkong again at half-past twelve, lors of life would appear to be very much greater not go to see bis strange pet came the Bhool On the north road there is considerable ir. Four hours were thus allowed the creursionists to than I first imagine, and it is still very diffeck to see him, but the other baya were frightened traktity though is genoml topcency of my spout therein. Shameen prenanted a most da to form a fair estimate, but many hundreds of of it, and told their cobocfellow not to let it also fell to the north, and thoro to the west foll solato, preci, notwithstanding the tightness dead bodies have been recovered from the Uanal, many more The orestaro, new grown into in directions between south and west. of the Ent and gress of the verdar The the yanks in the river and from underneath the monster, was then kept away by the young The direction taken by the tiles from the roofs The British stauner Hintshire, Captain tornado, or whirlwind, come to listo travelled in rutus in the City. Most of those who were filled patron, who began to minglast visiting it. Several of the houser does not appear to wait with generally taken deursnarly parallel to the. Thomas, arrived at Sagapore on the 3rd instanse dication genqually frock youth-west to north. mai their death through the infliction of a saddon watha clapsed and the boy's motuar fell sick, that of the adjacent trees; they appear to have From Ewatow with 780 cpolios on board oast, but making moby deviations from the first blow by failing timber, flying bricks, or bug and it was said that she evill not be cured unless core of the storm, namely, to S. W. to N.E.
It is notified in the Guralle that Easter line. It frst Banght Moss Bassell's house, upset in boats Many, as I told you before, fell some sopouts liver could bo obtained. The Monday will be observed as a folkday throng ay lately-oupied the fleeman "Consulata vietime to the great Bres in the Western Suburb, bay remombered this serpont, what to see him, it the Public Departments of this salong... taking off the roof, and greatly desaging Another, fra, Lanet tall you, broke out yester and asked the oreature to allow him to sater its The dopo ture of the Ouvilattal and Oriental the walls. The fag staff was blown, down, day morning in Tei. Lan street, in the Western stomach and out some of its liver. The serpent take a piece of its liver, which bo took home and, Company's steamer Occante from Yokohama has and furnished an indication of the encriners Suburb, and was not extinguished until nors standed its jawa auil let the boy arsed in and boon portpored until to-morrow afternoon, strength of the wind. The stall, which could than ten houses had beba barged down,
offer comparatively Kittle resistance to the wind, The meeting of the Hongkong and Chine was stayed in the usual way to ring bolts saut duages done in the settlement of Shameon immediately derived much benefit from the dose Bakery Company which was to bare becu hold into granite stones set in the ground. It was The Gorman Consulate has suffered considerably, shu pereaded har som to ro and try for somo en Baturday, was further adjourned until to-day blows down almost to the ground (resting and the British Conunlate has not quite escaped more, tad the compliant, serpent again allowed. The M. M. Carapany's steamer Trunaddy, only on the branches of à treo) and it had torn. The fine hanyan trees, the pride sad glory of him to enter its mouth, but this time the boy with tih next French mail, left Saigon on Satur- up from the ground, the granitestering into which Shamoen, beneath whose planesat shade the et too much and the monster was compelled to day morning for this port und passed Capo St. the ring-halla were set. The next honas caught rustenta wars wont to take their constitutional, but its mouth and swallow the boy. For having Jatoes at noon the same day."
was Musers, Grepp. Here also the roof was aro sadly thimmel, and damage has been done eaten a man the God of Heaven decreed this- sor- We understand that the Choral Society will taken off the west wall fell outwards, and the which cannot be repaired in ten years, many of peat could not sound to heater Avesrdingly information in the Grzito repeat their performance of "Trial by Jury" greater part of the farriture was destroyed. A the sprouted troos boasting nearly double that the serpent, rogol of being shut ent of heaven, in the Lusitano Theatre on Wednesday, the 24th tres trenty-two inches in diameter, standing some age. Some large trees were carried by the semes out every two or three years to disturb instant. The operatis will be preseded by the twenty yards in front of the house, was brists fornais a distance of thirty or forty yards the people of the world. The inhabitants of the comedieta "A Cup of Tes.
all a foot or two about the ground and thrown The granite sonte along the Bund have bood lages i Son Ul are afraid to go near the On Saturday afternoon, the sixteen Bikh con- like a battering rain against the verandah. displaced, but that is a loss easily repairable, as mountain ropated to be the serpent's basnt stables who were discharged on Friday with From Mosers. Gapp & Co's the devastating forer is the destruction of most of the lamps by which do runs the logend, and it is very much on a pension, feft here by the British steamer Arya traveled to Mestra. Jardine's house. Here again the settlement is, or rather was, lighted. The pay with those nursery tales which delighted us toos Apcar. A great many of their comrades su the roof was taken off and the west wall blown houses and godowns which have been laid in in childhood, such as Jack in the Bosstalk, o. down. The next premises struck were thess of whole or partial rain will furnish employment The only real marvel abant it is that there are the farea went on board to sea thom off.
The maximum temperature at the Peak during Messs. Arthold, Karberg & Co. The honse was for the builders for months, and it will be a long people silly enough to believe in such a tran the past week, ad rccrued in Satirday's Gazette much damaged and the silk godown betina was time ingood before the one pretty little island sparent fabla
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRES3, | School by Dr. BizEL, Acting Inspector of was 71, the minimam £16, at the Harbour totally demolished Toaru were six Chinese in of arsen rosu nes the semblance of ita fermor
Master's Olico, Prayn West, the maximum was
DEAR CIA pousal of the graphie accounts Though the foreign residents escaped without given of the terrible stormy which pasted over Schools, and Mr. A. FALCONER, Acting 78.0 and the minimum 65.0. Dad isch of rain the place at the time, three of whom were killed appocrones
en the spot, and three were got out alive, but one
Her Majesty's Conant at Tienfain, who te me Headmaster, before whom aaren candidatos,feli-during the wook. S
of them died in hospital shortly afterwards. The any loss of life or serious accident, there were Bamion sad through the Western Subarba, of all present or former pupils of the institu-
Amongst the passengers by the O. and O, roof of Messrs. Pastat's house was taken off some low fatalities in Shamen. In the 'gedown Canton, suggests to me that a more useful record of the Chairmen in our Committee there, kas would be afforded if the various crepondents, is worse than ospe, the spring croin are totally tion, appeared. A class of fifty boys was put steamer Gaelic, was Captain J. C. Abbott, late and the geotra bebind was levelled with the holonging to Myases, Arnhold, Karberg and Co. of the occurrence from a sisutifle point of view just written no that the appesesuse of things through Eriglish reading and dictation exer- commander of the British steamer Zaloong.
He has spent many years in Chira, and a great ground: Measca. Siemssen's godown was also somo onolios were angaged in unpacking gonds laying aside for the time their preconceived: destroyed, and nothing but the most glory cises by the candidates, who were themselves number of his friends went on Saturday, to wish completely demolisher, but their house did not when the tornado laid the building in rains over theories of whirlwinds and watersponta, would prospects are before the starring millions. There safer so severely as some the others. This their heads. When extricaten only two out seven communionts to the Hongkong journals what are rumours also of a socious rising in Stauxi examined in reading, writing from dictation, him a safe und pleasant vegage.
Crowd Hose and Homan, which is only to be expected in the grammar, and goography, in addition to va-
Britisk Consular premises stood in the dior eight were found alive, and one of these war they actually sa
For islands Ietheraanyevidence of a water cironmstances, and the Govenment is uiterly Au. Imperial Degree to the Peking Gaselle raition in which the storm travelled, and vivers died shortly afterwarils. There may be spout having burst over Canton? Indeed, it paralyzed by the condition of things Large rious Chinese subjects, Tae lixammers report safors on Dr. Doung's the decoration of the farnish a striking instance of the sharply some farther casualties, but I have not heard of there any evidence of there having been a water supplies of food un at their command that ar that all the crudidates, without exception, Dragon for his services some nine years ago in
spout, af UP The popular theory of water gether inadegnats to not the wants of the case did remarkably well in English parsing and Coolie trade. This is a what rare mark of Consul's residoneo sustained only some triding
Hongkong towards the suppression of the batso defined coures the storm took while the more
In the Canal more than a hundred dead bodi spouta haing columns of water rapidly gyrat while the means of conveyance are alike unequal
ing still survives, for west of a better to the severity of the situation.. in addition to that nenally found in works of the Englisli dictation. also in Chinese reading distination for a foreigner to obtain in China-damage to the venetians on the westershave been found, and the sights are really sicthoory, in some soientific hooks hut tho Tia Commutees formed at our instancë in:
Strolia Tas.
side, the assistante dwelling had a large ning It appears that about twenty streets theory by no means meets the yes ro Tientsin and Poking are entering vigorously on A private telegrin hans (says the Singapore portion of the roof on the northern and blown of houses have been completely swept away quired by modern sciener, and some meteorolothe work of relief, from the fans we have been were pulled down giste acknowledgetairignorance on the subject.nhle to send them ad eans have boon forwarded Times) beer received in Singapore from London, off. The Louse occupied by Mr. Lynborg, the boxides a number that
sble meteorological plussomeonelectric actions rice is being done stating that the Directors of the Chartered Hatikunipa constable, was completely razed to the to stop the course of the great fire which while others east let that time of inexplic. to Shaul where we hope good and efficient ser In refur Farther-With respect to details which baya All our funds on existed of this point, It should be noted, however, that aque of a dividend for the last half of 1977 at the rate of ground and all the famitur destroyed. Other broke out soon after the storm. the candidates had over before stood in front
proporty was injured more or less, but the abovence to those I may motion that they noro sentific value, it appeared to me that the basing besi eilar sent Nordb by, our tromsaret, is practically the extent of the damage to house curred, the first in Sun Tin Ti, the second at fires which broke out in the subarbs were by nur applied to the Catholio Missionaries here for of a class. The Examiners recommended
property in Shamden, The destruction of troos Saw I-street, fau third at Ha Chun Tong, and TS PUB conflugrations, but rather the re-that parposs in user to their application.
te In fact nothing more that might be ex- In view of this, I take the liberty of writing only one of the candidates (GRAX MAN Yesterday st about oue s'look gem an accident has ben very great. A hundred and fifty-four the fourth in Hung Tay them, all in the Western routed froin house falling suddenly and iho.com- your Excellene i at be conveniently
wore) as tolerably competent to teach cored on board thas Freno hark Cordouan Anglo Chinese Alementary school." He One of the seamen, named Olivier, was walking trees were either torn up by the roots or broken sulurb. None of them were finally astinquent ignition caused by ordinary stores or kindly pased in Honglong can be conveniently by the main batch, when be tripped and fell into off just above the ground, while fifty-two of guished until five o'clock yesterday morning, lamps. That they were the work of incendiaries sent by remittance to our tresaver, F. W. Le- Assumption. In my opinion there is too great a We have repaired froth England nearly Tix: Chromolithograph Plate of the NEW Fussed well in English, very well in Chinese, the aid, a stanca of about fiftoon fest. He was which the trauks were left standing ware and this was partly due to the fast that appears to me to be a grataitone and unwarranted marsharid. Exquire Agra Bank
but indifferently in practical tesebing. It is unable to move, and was upared to his berth and completely denuded of their branches. Fas. many of the thoroughfares were obstracted by tendency amongst us foreignors to sent thieves 30,000, and about an equal sare from other
attended to by Dr. Adams,
About a score and incendiaries when the persons spoken of ato quarters Our hoge was that the so-called Chins to be regretted that the examination did siot
sing over the Shameen settlement the storms the houses that had fallen. have a more successful issue, but, after all,
We regret to chronicis the death of Caplin crossed the canal to the city, carrying away in of the robbers who had gathered together Chinese That the popplation of this great city indemnity in the hands of the US Government, doubt, but do not let as conjura að ‘imaginary with intarest theroon for the last twenty years, Blanchard, well-known and esteemed at Shanghai its course the balustrading of the East to luot the bases were captured and handed includes many bad oteraoters there on ha no or rather the halants of it amounting to $150,000 by his Masunia Bratbrem. As a mark of respect Bridge, native police station opposite was over to the authorities, but the majority evildoers to meet our theories of Chinese ras would be teoorded to us for this onevolent obj to the deceased, the District Grand Master and
let-the salvation of the millious now starring The Directory for 1878 contains several new require more than this to be able to teach it and the members of the other Lodges in the all the houses in its course making a clean response to a request to that effect from the
of this latter. For present purposes Shamien stored dead is large som come into our features and improvements, and will be found with ease to others. They do not learn to Distet, with my friends, attended the funeral sweep of everything for a width of about six British Consul, sont a hundred soldiers to pro. the suggestion contained in the flext paragraph answered to the present time. Should they be font Shameen, a foot. I forgot in my hurry tomay be onnaidered as an island about 100 yard lands, the Loueur, sad credit attaching to it sersloo, which was performed by the Rev. Ehundred feet. The mortality has bora ya complete as possible.
speak it fluently. They never think in it, Davy, yesterday afternoon, at the Protestant riously estimated at from five to ten thousand. mention before. His Excellency deserves praise long by about 250 in width, its lingor dinmeter would be heralded far and wide, and be a means The Chronicle and Diestory is the only they never speak the language save whenia Cemetery.
and protably the latter number is nearer the for the promptitude with which he cared for the being das East and West and traversed by rowls of blessing in a highest souse publicasion of its kind for Chius and Japan, dressing Europeans, and the consequence In China, "Telling teels" ruono "Counting mark Nine thousand houses (speaking in round property and safety of foreigners, not the fast which I will designate as the South, middle, and As it is, we are dependent on the sympathy about 200 yards of the western nil, entirely cs are thankful that those have been granted greatly and it will be found in faluable in all Public, naturally is that few attain such a grasp of money and this gave rise to si serious mistake numbers are known to have been destroyed, and Arves to shew the opatrast to the relations exist. North Roads The eastern half of this space, and and aid of friends at home and abroad, and we Mersatile, and General Offices.
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it as to be able to impart instruction in it to
to each other in it, and to read English books and newspapers constantly. The experience gained by this examination will not be lost, for the Exauners make some most useful
But I will now proofed
the mest popular zovalists, and were in the habit the impending disaster by hearing the noise and thirty-five years ago. But to return to my in the eastern part of the Are Reseribel
The morning had boon fine, bat abudy, till making the arrangements necessary for the trans-
If Your Excellency can meet our request, by their fellow countrymen. They require to mix more in daily life with Europeans, to talk of improvising stories to their customers during used by other houses falling and made their account of the ham effeted in the city, it is hont nos o'clock, when benvy caia accompanied aision of the above vele, oar Committee will
banking hours. This blander arose, of course, escapo, there were other cases in which great said that sheet fifteen hundred house have been with thunder and lightning commeazed and feel greatly obliged on, Your Excelleneyis
Most obedient Servant, from the fact that be was told Chinese bankers rimbors of people were killed by the fall of a destroyed and upwards of a. thousand boats continnen til about Balt-past two. Then it be
WM. MUIRHEAD. themselves tell their taals to their customers over
single house. For instance, there was an eating wrecked. Some of my native friends compate came fair, though heavy thunder olends basered the counters of their banks London Figaro
house in which fifty-two neaistants wore on the loss of life ashore and afloat at more than ten the sky. For aboat ton minutes after the rain Honerary Secretary. China Farins Relief Fund.
ceased large angular bail stones, soma hilly two
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, gaged. In this house there were at the time over thousand, but I sincerely hope that this is ar inches long by one in thickness, fall in small
Horozora, 9th April, 1878. a hundred people taking refreshment and pens, exaggeration. There seems no doubt, however, numbers; probably not more the one stone tő REVEREND AND DEAR SIR-La reply to your ithiresistant or guests, known to have that the dead are to be numbered by this thousand square yard. In another five minutes it was
vident that a storm was coming up the letter of the 4th instant, I have the pleasure of escaped. In another case twenty-four person instead of the hundred as we at first supposed. Macao Fassage From the southward The at-larming you that I have paid $5,000 to the were killed by the destruction of a family house. The scane along the truck of the tornady mosphere in tust, direction bed, a reddish ep. Treasurer of the European Committon in Hong- The destruction pearance, something that of s snow cload), en long for the China Famins Furd, and $1,000 to Thero was also great destruction of boats and is and and disheartening.
Binid of Athens."
Shemus O'Bria" La Soanambula
Fondly Audly Mistake
out,"
POLICE COUNT.
13th Apr
The al fortnightly entertainment at the and practical suggestions, which, if carried Temporance Hall will take place this evening into effect, cisnot fail to aid very materialisticucing at 8 pm Admission free. in preparing boys at the Central School for Pingo Balo.....
following is the programable similar poste. They are of opinion that a Song
Bending rigid continuation of the nawly introduced Violin Sale
life on the water. Allowing, therefore for there has proved most complete along its direct hire was filled with what appeared to be the debris of the freasurer of the Nativa Committee questionnaire system for practical exercises in Song (Comic)
Reading.. colloquial English speaking, and further Song's Sunday sugg
being no one in many of the bones at the time elsewhere, of course, it is partía. Tim violence mat-sheds, but which afterwards proved to ho I am happy to say that both Committees have of their fall, and on the other hand allowing for of the wind for the few minutes it lasted was leaves of trees, flying inwards and grinting in retired considerable sums from munitiosat a most violent manner. I closed my windows and donors in this Colony, ross due in no small & Walsh, Shanghai an increased atat of paid monitors to be Trio (Piano and two Violins) from Lasia." CREFCO and Messrs. Hall & Hot and Holy specially trained in the technicalities of a Song
there being great numbers in some of those grest as that of the severest typhoon: Groite no more till the storm had passed: my house degree to the publication of your former letter & Walsh, Shanghai.
that foll, it is probably below the average to blocks were lifted from their places, and buried is only abcnt 350 yards from the Uns of the in the Hongkong Gaste and car local papers TIENTSIN and Messrs. Hall & Holtz and Kelly schoolmaster's profession are urgently re-
An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon at estimate the loss of life at one to each houses considerable distance, thick tres soapped groutset injury, and yet I experienced nothing and to the other authentic statenate you and PEXING... 3 NAGAKAKI Tho C, and J. Trading Co
Thonghaiquired. It would be necessary, however, that the Magiatmay before Mr. Creagh, ocronor, and that foll, and is theeknd lives on this Wales in brain liks twige, roofs were Efted bodily, and more violent than an ordinary squall: I heard no the Members of the Shanghai Committee have, thunder, and the quintity of rain which fell was from time to time, put before the public. Believe the Head-master of the Central School should a jury earspiked, of Messrs. J. Mercantile, L
J. Poru EisYESSY. set apart, for the purpose of giving these B. C. Jantzean, And H. Garrals, on the body of the estimate of the number of hensos de boats carried for on to the shore. In one case much less than that which usually socompanies me, Reverend Bit. Youre faithfully
Ng. Alow a prisoner who was serving his farm stroyed was furnished by a person who had all boat was satually blown on to the root of a common thunder storm. The wind where I
was was at first from the south, but quickly The Rerend War Muirhead, Hanorary
Secretary, China Femine Bolief Fund, monitors theoretical and practional instrue of imprisonment at the Victoris Gael-Captain the information dircot from the Chinese house in the Touth Ward
veered to east, my own impression is that it
Shinybal tion in the art and methods of teaching, at Dempster produced the gaol register. The de Authorities, and it fally corroborated by a row of houses, all brothels but one, forming lasted about four muntes, but of course its dura Meeses. Malboras, Julion & Co least one hour every day, besides employing case was undergoing a punishment of three the appearance of the city. Much of the do one side of a short late in the City were the seaae tion on er bayond the outer verge of the storm
month imprisonment or breach of con them in practical teaching in the Preparatory ditious pardon. On the 11th instant witasse strnction was, of course, caused by fire, but the of one notable catastrophe. The other side of the may have been much greater than it was in the Class and requiring their attendance at his applied for permission to release the deceased, ides of incendiarista is generally repudiated both lane is formed by the ride wall of the Nam Cheong centre, where other observers mensare its dars- weekly examinations." This would necessitate, term of imprisonment, on pant of his ill houses blown down fice was probably being used wall gave way to the fares of the tornado and from me in that direction soross the Western
who only had a few days mors to complete his by the foreigners and natives. In most of the Temple, which is some thirty feet high. This tion in seconds I then looked to the marit ward, and saw the leafy atmospters, travelling
BEFORE THE HON. CHARLES MAX. the Examiners state, the appointment of au bealth. The charactor of deceased whilst in
THREATENING LANGUAGE. additional English master. If English is to be gaol was very good-Petar Marply said that either for cooking or other purposes, and kero. fell crushing in upon the opposite house, the suburb From the e, it had fason to get be was Hospital Warder at the Vietorin gaol. sine is now so universally burial and stored iz inmates of which, about one hundret in number, there I should say that it was travelling about
Biobart Joues, u memizán; unemployal was taught in all the Government schools, it will He produced the admittance book to the hospital Chinese houses that would have been no wore all killed, most of them being crushed to four twelve miles an hour Birt although
I did not at the time observe the course of brought up on remand charged by Robert be necessary to provide competent masters. The deceded was admitted them on the 11th cause for surprise had the entagrations had death, and the remainder suffocated. There the storm across Shamien, yet that course Bradley, manat, with ning threatening
istant, and witnese saw that to was in a dying. It would be little good to select young, half state. That morning af about twenty minutes much
more extensive than they were no means of exit at the back, and no one is at toc distinctly marked by the fastruction language.US. qualified teachers for the task: In the past nine o'clock he died-Tr.Ayras said that As to the clearing away of the dead bodies, attempted to dig the bodies out of the ruins which it canged. I have said abors that at the On the morning of the 11th instant, the pro- Inside the City a crasry spectacio is to be met. 1,200 yards of the length of Shamien, 600 at the Becutor was a witnes at the Pollos Court, ins suggestions of the Examinars, therefore, we the deceased complained of pains to the chest the Chinese authorities seen to have goted
jury so that two moridianal lines drawn 200 months imprisonment for Lareery, On leaving Particular attention is given at this Establish thank all the friends of education will coin- and difficulty of leathing. He was suffering with most commandable prompitude. Almost in the shape of troops of homeless people wander east end and 200 of the western and sarped us her a European whe sentenced to four
From disease of the valves of the heart. Witness knew thees was no chance of decesul Heling Immediately after the catastrophe orders for four ing in a dejected fashion up and down the streets yards apart would include the whole area of the Court the prisoner used throatoning angange ment to CoDECIAL and GENERAL. JOBcide..
many days, and on the 11th instant he resou-thensand esiting were issued by the Of Tuk craving charity; while kere and taste were to destruction But the width of the storm es in. in the prosecutor, who claimed protection. .
Hio Worship.ortored the prisoner to enter luta TRINTING, every description of which is
mended that the deceased should be released. Tong Hospital (an institution similar to the be seen groups of injured persons lying down diosted by its affeofs, was not so great as that:
jury returbed a verdict of death from Tang Wah Hospital of Hongkong) and up to groaning in their pain. On the shore there has for it traverted Shamsien diagonally between two a pornozal recognisance of Es to keep the peaco für
by S. and NE by N, the medial lino, striking the time the sleaner left yesterday afternoon been much weeping and wailing, paronte be lines about 220 yards part; and ranning S. W three months three thousand bodice had been recovered from monning their loss Little ones, whildren crying the home of Algar Jardins, Matheson & Co the ruins and buried without delay. The work of pitously for their dead parents. The marrow and that of Messrs. Parian & Co. Sonie com blearing away tha débris was proceeding rapidly, creek in still partially shoket up with doors paratively slight fahoots, as it wore panid These limits, but they need not be considered as bas the stono in some places was unmistakeable consisting of broken boats and other risky, affecting the general noturacy of the statement. avidenca that there were dead bodies still to be in which are numbers of dead bodies. In too above made extricated. The Chinem nathurifier also dis- many instances whole families have been eruehed I have taken some pains to ascertain the diroo Chan. Yu Shin said-I am a trader in Chine played great consideration in sending a guard to death in ose beas. The supply of coffins is tion of the wind in various parts of thedestal maufacturail cloth, between Tung koon and area by noting the position of the fallen troos Hongkong. On the d orch. I wont to too to protect Shameen from the raids of louters. nearly orhansted, and the undertakers are now far the direction taken by those which have be Blu La salt fish law and bought, fourteen taals
The estimate of the mortality given shove is I am told, charging double prica.
SANFRANCISCO Mr. L. P. Fisher, 28, Morchants
Exchange. NEW YORK.Meurs. 8. M. Pettingill & Co.,
37. Park Kow.
NOTICE... INTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION PRINTING
"DAILY PREBS" OFFICE."
AA NIE
Oxecuted
IN THE BEST STYLE
And at
SUCH PRICES
As will bear
We notice with sincare regret a statement in
the Yokobama papers to the effect that the harvest in the south of Cores is expected to partially fail again this your The famise Hast past was sory nigh as severe as that
FAVOURABLE COMPARISON which desolated Shantung and Chihli, but
·with
ANY IN THE FAST.
DALLY PRESS" OFFICE; HONGKONG,
HINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT,
the COMMERCIAL JOURNAL for CHINA, JAPAN,
Pablished at the Offes of the Hongkong Daily Prese on the Morning of the Departure of the English Mail,
containe the li
LATEST AND FULLEST TRADE
INTELLIGENCE,
REPORTS OF MEETINGS OF
· COMPANIES,
AN
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS. together with the POLITICAL AND GENERAL NEWS
Coren being so isolated and news from it so difficult to obtain, the extent of the dietress prevailing there was not known until long after the event. The people of Coren have, we believe, like the Chinese, laid their ferosts under such heavy contribution for
untural capsen ve
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
SUPPLIED TO THE DAILY Press,”
BT SOUTHERN ROUTE.]
LONDON, 11th April.
THE SITUATION IN EUROPE.
THE TEST CABE.
Wong Chin Sing, propelidor of the Sia L. No. salt fish lan, Sal Fing Poon, appoarte în ro- maul, summoned by Inspector Orley for solling by rotails guantity of ralt file of less quantity Ihm one pient oontrary to Sections 7 and 8 Or timande No. 9 d. 1855
blown entirely away from the places where they weight of one description of salt fish, for which
of course only an approximation based on the most The villages of Pab Hin Hock and Pah Hook were growing. The number of trous, blown I paid four candareens and nine-li (seven certa), Lord Beaconsfeld's speech on the subijout of reliable information obtainable, but the state Tang, two or three miles to the north outside down, either uprooted or leaving nothing bata and four cattipa whirat of another description of centuries past for firewood without making the Address to the Crown is, regarded with disment of the unmbor at houses, dea-royed and the walls, word cangat in the storm and suffered strap is 194, while Sé ntbara hare big mon or HAI, for which I raid seven pandareena kad less deaded of their brabois Though the six li twenty four and a half carts) Ironsived adequate provision for renewal that the favour at St. Petersburg,
the number of bodies recovered way be takoregat mago, many dwelling-tmuses and other data am abunderd, ref I fear the deductions two bille for the fish from the shopman I the country generally has in some parts be Russian troops are mosting Bucharest.
sabetantially no prate,
buildings being destroyed and mumbors of lives therefrom are not very satisfactory, tated suck presseded on the rond along the Prays, and coine dessicated and is now able to Regarding the proposed Congress, Prince
The tornado, it appears, came from a direction lost. The village across the water opposite to must be the case when we consider the very stood outside the Stamp Agong pinon, and was short time that the storm lasted, the dedictions there engaged in wrapping up the fish, in order to frequent and prolonged droughts. It would Gertschakoff says he can maly repeat his previas quite contrary to that in which the clouds had Shameen sama in for ita share of the disaster caused by the bulliline, the shiling of the wind send it to my home by a friend I had plaved the
alsu, being partially destroyed.
on the same spot (I same a rotatory carnotor, two bills for the fish upon the counter, when a man seem that nearly all thickly populated statement, leaving to the Great Fowers the been travelling immediately, preceding it.
I hear that, though the whirlwind did not and that there must be unch shutang in a storm named Chiu-Akah, who was previously known to eastern countries have been guilty of this liberty to appreciate the action
A LONDON, 12th April, ; By the British steamer Chinlelang, we have affect so much damage at Fatahan se in this of this nature, though I have ne evidence of me asked me if I wanted the two bills for the foolish and improvident use of timber. They have, in a blind, unreasoning sort of waytions is taking place for
da sclire exchange of diplomatle-domanies been favoured with the following report "On port, fi has mane savere havoo. It is stated by oiller) and the consequent question whether any fish. I said I did not, and he took them into bie
particular tree will fall at the meat blast, or with possession. The bills prolas) are the same. Thursday afternoon at about half past three Chinese who have come from there that not loss stand that and succumb to the changed direc. Inipeater Orley informed in Worship that be acted mpok as a man who lives on his capital in England and Russ to o'clock a terrife whitwind passed over the salp, than two hundred houses have been indd prostate,tion of the wind. Nevertheless I think my notes had other wituscses, but they had left the Colony Mr. Wotton, for the defeños, replied that he oblivious of the fact that it must one day come, meka maknal banggislyną mum
The barometer had been standing all day at while about half the boste mi the river, there on this subject worth recording 29.90. The fray fulluation of the Impending have been wrecked 156 kg off the troos on the Bouth Road (in which I thought it was the coolest thing he are knew, Inalies the whole south of Jandias' borne), for is presentacio aosan to: cies and make anch storm cleared on bused was a colond, apparently down at heroral Kundred. A pus bout road to treas bare fallen beatly due north, a report. At the first pateat there were no wat of smoke coming up from the South-east, fol- coming from Patshan to this pity was when at the Astiation therefrom not excooling two points con trought forward, only some receipts,
Trade Report" has a large aiconistien to termination when want will they stares Ports has sent to the Great Powers Bolo in Hongkong, the Parts of Chins and Jim in the face. It is perfectly hopeless to to which it declares its acceptance of the Treaty the Philippines, Biraits Settlements, drade
think that shy mfluence can be brought to: of Ben Brentano, Hong Kong, Sea October, 1877.