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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, JUNE 28TH, 1881,
SHIPPING INTELLIGENOE,
ARRIVALS:
June 27, Leonidas, British ship, 1326, C. C. Prehn, Cardiff 2nd March, Coal-Captain. June 27, Norden, Danish stoner, 778, T. Rasmussen, Chefoo and Now. chwang, 19th June, Beans and General.--Siemsson & Co. June 27, Duropa, Russian cruiser, 3100, Captain Grippenberg, Yoko-
hama 19th Jane.
June 28, Amoy, British steamer, 814, Drewes, Canton 27th June, Gen eral-Siemissen & Co. June 28, Roderick Hay, British bark, 290, P. H. Nicolson, Bangkok 13th June, General-Turner & -Co.
June 28, Atalinia, Gorman steamer,
784, E. G. Pfaff, Canton. Siemsson & Co.
DEPARTURES.
June 27, Niigata Maru, Japanese
steamer, for Kobe, &c.
June 27, Rajunattianuhar, British str.
for Bankok.
June 27, Nestor, British steamer for
London.
June 27, Atholl, British steamer, for
Singapore.
June 27, Welle, German steamerr, for
Amoy,
June 27, Fu-yeu, Chinese steamer, for
hungbai.
June 28, Wycliffe, British steamer, for
Newchwang
June 28, Pingon, American steamer,
for Hoihow.
Jano 23, Lochiel, British schooner, for
Tientsin..
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVED.
trips hardly differed from each other. The Lancashire Witch is rather smaller in burden than her elder sister, and although measuring three feet longer over all, she is less wide by two feet than the Sunbeam. In horse-power and coal consumption the two ships are about equal, nor do they differ materially in accommodation, which in each case is excellent, or in seagoing qualities, which are again in both instances deserving of commendation. On January 15th, 1879, the Blue Peter of the Lancashire Witch was seen flying at Cowes, and at eight in the evening of that day she sailed, with Sir Thomas Hesketh, the owner, and his friend." Mr. S.,' on board, bound for Madeira. In her voyage across the ocean to the east coast of South Amer. ica, she closely followed the track of her predecessor, the Sunbeam, the only difference being that, while Mr. Brassey made for Rio Janeiro, the bend of the Lancashire Witch was pointed for Monte Video, at the month of the River Plato.
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At Monte Video the Witch was joined by the Marquis of Queensberry, who accompanied his young friend, Sir Thomas Hesketh, to Patagonia. A stirring narrative of her own, her hus band's, and her brother, Lord Queens- berry's, trip * Across Patagonia" bas been given to the world by the graceful and yet vigorous pen. of Lady Florence Dixie, who, not having much to tell, has eked out paucity of material by
however, be doing no injustico to other British owners of yachts when we say that, with one exception, Mr. Brassey aurpasses them all in the length of the voyages which he has successfully made in the Sunbeam and hor predeces sors, and also in the exhaustive and plenary acquaintance with the practice and theory of seamanship which he has acquired by many "a day and night passed upon the stormy deep. It is a fortunate circumstance for those who take delight in reading well-told stories of the sea that in all his yachting voy ages Mr. Brasscy has been accompani- ed by a painstaking and agreeable chronicler in his wife, so that, we are indebted to Mrs. Brassey's pon for a couple of volumes A Voyage Round the Globe in the Sunbeam" and "Storm and Sunshine in the East," which have made thousands of readers familiar with the qualifications of the Sunbeam's owner to be regarded as a fearless and accomplished seaman. It is, indeed, no light task to circum- navigate the globe in a "screw com. posite topsail-yard schner," with a displacement tonnage of five hundred and thirty tons, and Mr. Brassey was long in a position to plame himself upon the unprecedented achievement of traversing in a vessel of this size more than thirty-five thousand miles of ocean in the short period of forty-six weeks, from which must be deducted one hundred and twelve days of well- earned repose in harbour. Without such an auxiliary as steam this perform-skill in dressing it up. While waiting ance would, of course, have been an at Sandy Point in Magellan's Straits impossiblity; but in ber most memorable
the little party on board of the Lan- craise the Sunbeam travlled more than cashire Witch heard of the disaster twenty thousand miles under sail alone; which had befallen the British arms and overy master of a sailing brig at Isandula in South Africa, and will be ready to admit that such a straightway Sir Thomas Hesketh re- record entitles Mr. Brassey to pride solved to make for Natal, lying nearly himself upon his capacity for taking five thousand miles away from Cape command of a craft like the Sunbeam Horn. Lord Queensberry being other
wise engaged, left the Witch in Pata- upon a long-extended voyage
The success, however, with which gonia, and her head was without dely Mr. Brassey circumnavigated the globe pointed eastward. The fleet and elegant in his own yacht has stimulated other little vessel made her way from Stanley, yachtsmen to follow his example. The at the southern extremity of South Sunbeam was built by Messrs Laird of America, to Natal in twenty-three days Birkenhead, upon the design of Mr. and eight hours, during which time St. Clare Byrne, of Liverpool, and she sarmounted four thousand four might be technically defined “a sa screw hundred and eight-two miles, out of composite three-masted topsail-yard which she steamed nine hundred and schooner." Her placement burden is of twelve. On the 16th and 17th of April five hundred and thirty tons; her length she reeled off respectively two hundred over all is one hundred and fifty-seven and eighty-five, and two hundred and feet; her beam rather more than twenty-ninety-five miles, and few before a seven feet; and her auxiliary engines, made also by Messrs. Laird, are of seventy nominal, and three hundred and fifty indicated, horse-power; the aver- ports light winds from S. S. E. to E.four tons, the speed being eight knots The British bark Roderick Hay reage daily consumption of coal being S. E. and fine weather to Paracels, in fine weather, and her bankers being and thence to port light winds from capable of holding altogether eighty tons of coal. On July 1st, 1876, Mr. and Mrs. Brassey took leave of the friends who had gone down with them The following interesting article to Chatham to see them off, and on is from the pages of our namesake the 8th of the same month the Sun- the London Daily Telegraph:- beam, having rounded Cape Ushant, About eight years ago Mr. Thomas had bid Old England farewell. Then Brassey, now one of the Junior Lords ensued a voyage which may be follow of the Admiralty, voluntarily submit- ed in minute detail by the readers of ed himself for examination to the Local Mrs. Brassey's interesting volume, Marine Board of the Port of London, which exhibits her husband as being and had no difficulty in obtaining his generally his own pilot, and as having certificate as a master in the morcan. steered his dainty and elegant craft tile navy of Great Britian. Ever since through the Straits of Magellan," Al- the day when Mr. Brassey left the though, perbapa, I ought not to say so, University of Oxford, nearly five-and-writes Mrs. Brassey, I cannot help twenty years ago, he has devoted him self with much singleness of purpose to yachting, and has also evinced a fixed determination to acquaint himself with all the details necessary for the tor details which have been mastered formation of an accomplished naviga.
by him with a completeness rare indeed On Friday, the 1st July,
among the members of the many Yacht For Manila, per Esmeralda, at 3.30 Squadrons in these nautical islands.
Credits, at 4 months' sight,
3/9
months' sight,
3493
ON PARIS,-
Bank Bills, on demand,
..4.60
4.75
On BOMBAY,---
Bank, 3 days' sight,
225
On CALCUTTA,--
Bank, 3 days' sight, ......................... 225)
On SHANGHAI,-
Bank, sight,
72
Private, 30 days' sight,
728
Hongkong Temperature.
(Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Cols Register, Queen's-road).
HONGKONG, 27th & 28th June, 1881. BAROMETER-1 P.M.
29.998 29.950
Do, 4 P.M.
THERMOMETER-1 PM
....82. .....80.
Do. 4. P.M.. Do. 1 PM (Wet bulḥ) 79. Do.. BAROMETER-9 AM.
Do. 4. P.M.
THERMOMETER-9 & M:
78.
99988
83,
Do. 9. A.M. (Wet bulb) 30. Do. Maximum
82. Do. Minimum (over night) ST.
MAILS.
The following mails will close- To-day, the 28th June,-
For Amoy, per Emay, at 4.30 p.m. For New York, per H. A. Litchfield,
at 2
p.m. To-morrow, the 29th June,
For Swatow, Amoy and Foochow, per Thales, at 11.30 a.m.; in- stead of as previously announc-
ed."
p.m.
Per Danish steamer Norden, from Chefoo and Newchwang. Dek-
gassnye.
Por British bark Roderick from Bangkok,-5 Chinese...
Hay,
SHIPPING REPORTS. The British ship Leonidas reports left Cardiff 2nd March, crossed the line 27 days out. Called off Cape. town for orders 57 days out. Pro- ceeded to Anger again for orders 92 days out. Left Auger, June 3rd, had very light winds and variable weather up the China sea, total 116 days from Cardiff All well on board.
N, E. to East.
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admiring the way in which Tom has piloted his yacht though the Straits, for it would do credit, not only to any amateur, but even to a professional seaman. He has never hesitated or intricate the place or complicated the been at a loss for a moment, however directions; but, having thoroughly studied and mastered the subject be forehand he has been able to go stead. ily at full speed the whole way. has, however been very fatiguing work for him as he has hardly ever way." It is to be hoped that Sir Tho left the bridge while we were under mas Hesketh's beautiful steam-yacht the Lancashire Welch, which returned safely to Liverpool on the 7th of last month, after more than rivalling the tile marine whose practical acquaint Sanbeam's feat, thay bave had on board- ance with the ocean has been gained of her some such agreeable, and capable through their connection with what chronicler as Mrs. Brasey. The Lan Mr. Brassoy calls "our pleasure navy" cashire Witch was built in 1878 by Thus Mr. George W. P. Bentinck, the Messrs. Stoole and Co., of Greenock, senior Member for West Norfolk, has from designs made by Mr. St. Clare often spoken of himself in the House Byrne. It is evident that she was of Cmmous as boing" the oldest cor. fashioned upon a model closely resemb tificated mastor in her Majesty's coming, that of, the Sunbeam, and, in mercial marino," and almost without point of fact the performanosa of the exaggeration Mr. Miluer Gibson might two vessels as we shall prosently employ the same words. We shall, show in their globe-circumnavigating
Mr. Brassey is, in fact, one of the very On Thursday, 7th July,-
few amateur sailors in this or any other For the United Kingdom and country who thoroughly understands Europe, via Brindisi; the Straits observation at sea with an accuracy how to use the sextant and to take an Settlements, Batavia, Burmah,
not inferior to that possossed by the Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt, first officer of avansatlantic steam Malta, Gibraltar and the Maur- ship. There are, it is true, other cer- itius, per Nepaul, printed mattificated masters in the British moren ter at 2 pm letters at 3 p.m. On Friday, 8th July,-
For Nagasaki and Yokohama, per
Malacca, at 5 p.m. For Kobe and Yokohama, per Takasago Mara, at 5
p.m.
The following mails may be ex- pected:
On or about Monday the 4th July: The Calcutta mail of 18th June.
brisk breeze from W.S.W., "as if," in the language of a graphic letter con- tributed to our contemporary the Field, "the girls at Natal had got hold of her been feigned with better reason consi- tow-rope." It might, we imagine have dering the interesting adventure which befell Sir Thomas Hesketh, and supplied him with a fair bride, at a later stage of his long voyage, that it was the girls of San Francisco who had got hold of tho Lancashire Witch's towrope. Be that, however, as it may, the hearty congratulations of all-and their name in these islands is legion-who have a spice of salt in their blood, will be offer ed to the young owner of the Lanca- shire Wilch upon having safely tra- versed fifty-three thousand four hand. red nautical miles during his long and diversified voyage. The Lanca- shire Witch was absent for two years and three months from England, while the cruise of the Sumbeam ex- tended only over forty-six weeks. The Witch steamed twelve thousand seven hundred miles out of the total distance achieved by her; the Sembeam tra- versed only thirty-five thousand four hundred miles, out of which not less than fifteen thousand were performed under steam. The Sumbeam's best run under canvas was two hundred
and ninety-nine miles in twenty-four
hours, while that of the Witch was but four miles less in the like time. Many other points of comparison ang- gest themselves between the two ves sols, which so closely resemble each other as to merit the name of sisters; but the most encouraging reflection occasioned by their two voyages is that while our "pleasure navy" boasts two such amateurs as Mr. Brassey and Sir Thomas Hesketh, the meteor flag" cannot meot much upon the ocean which will make it afraid.
Disgraced the Family.
▲ TRAVELLER- in the State of Illinois- came to a hut on the prairie, near Cairo, and there halted: He went into the house. It was a wretched affair, with
an empty box for a table, while two or three old chairs and disabled stools disgraced the reception room, the dark walls of which were further ornament. ed by dirty tinware and a broken shelf article or two. The woman was cry- ing in one corner, and the man, with tears in his eyes and a pipe in his mouth, sat on a stool, with, his dirty arms rest- ing on his knees, and his sorrowful- looking bead supported by the palms of his hands. Not a word greeted the interloper.
"Well," he said, "you seem to be in awful trouble here; what's up?"
"Ah, we are almost crazed, neigh. bour," said the woman; and we ain't got no patience to soe folks now."
"That's all right," said the visitor, not much taken back by this polite re. buff; "bat can I be of any service to you in all this trouble?"
"Well, we've lost our gal; our Sal's gone off and left us," said the man,
in tones of despai.
"Ah! do you know what induced her to leave you?" remarked the new arrival.
"Well, we can't say, stranger, as how she's so far lost as to be induced, bat then she's gone and disgraced us " marked the afflicted father.
"Yes, neighbour, and-not as I should say it as is hor mother-but there warn't a pootier gal in the West than our Sal. She's gone and brought ruin on us and on her own head now," followed the stricken mother.
"Who has the gone off with ?" in- quired the visitor.
"Well, there's the trouble. The gal could have done well, and might have married Martin Kehoe, a capital shoe- maker, who, although he has got but one eye, plays on the flute in a lively manner, and earus a good living. Then, look, she was surrounded by all the luxury in the country," said the father.
"Yes, who knows what poor Sal will have to eat, drink, or wear now ? " groaned the old woman.
"And who is the fellow that has taken her into auch misery?"
"Why, she's gone off and got married to a critter called an editor, as lives in the village, and the Lord only knows how he airns a living!"-New Yorka Paper.
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