THE TYPHOON, AND AMER.
IMMENSE DAMAGE AT SHANGHAI AND WOOSUNG.
EXTRAORD, NARY SPECTACLES. The following interesting account of the recent typhoon in Shanghai and the extensive damages resulting therefrom, is taken from the N. C. D. News of the 4th inst. :—
When we went to press early in Saturday morning the typhoon, which had been gradual ly increasing in force from the previous after noon, was teaching jis climax. The tide was also at its highest, and at highest could not be matched in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The greater part of the Settlement was under water and the streets presented most unfamiliar spectacles. The Huangpu had not only overslawed jis banks in that the water came up to the steps, of the buildings on the Bund but streamed along the streets beyond, turning them into rivers of two or three, and agmetimes four fect, in depth. Two members of our staff found the simplest way of reathing home after the labours of the day was to leave" most of their clothing behind and swim up Kinklang Road; nor was theirs 'an uncommon experience. Sampans yulohed up 'to the Club steps to take home same who had taken refugo there earlier in the evening, and boats were as numerous in the streets as ricshas, The water was not stationary but running al several knots and one of the curious sights was that of scaffolding poles and other building ma- terial harne swiftly along, with enterprising Chinese in chase. Some hundreds of chicken were drowned, many hones and ponies had to Be taken from their stables, but there appear to have been few lives lost in the Settlement itself,
At Pootung ahere were several natives drowned
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1905,
ON THE RIVER
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large matshed was demolished, In the hotel ness reported:--Hongkong and Shangka
At Woosung Forts Station the whole of the Shanghal advices, of 4th inst., state :-Budi- grounds all matsheds and the swimming-bath Banks at $885 at Ex. 71. Yangize Wharts at sheds were carried away, while during Friday. Tls, 190. Farnham, Boyds &t Tis. 145/144 for SPECIAL night the water tose to the level of the Hotel December. Ewas at Tis. sa for October. SPECIAL SALE verandah. The Prince's Fier was completely Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. at Tls. eve; t away and only the piles main at low 7.to B. S. Colonies at Th. 19. Telephones at tide as evidence of the stalwart structure that 8/8. was there three days ago. The new railway. wharf has also gone down considerably. At 2 kew Wharis at Tis. 190.
Business done direct-Shanghai and Hong- Indo-Chinas at p.m. yesterday the register board near where the pier used to be showed a depth of 30 odd 71 67 or September. Lands at 7's, 122. The casualties in the Huangpu must, how feet, and on Friday night the depth must have Langkats at Tls. 170 for September. ever, be considered really small. A coal-laden been nearer forty feet than thirty. Apart from man was drowned. A large junk turned turile suffered little damage, though the risk was Junk was sunk near the P. and O. jetty and one native craft the heavier shipping at Woosung and sank off the Point but the crew got safely great, There does not appear to have been to shore, and a rice junk was overturned near any serious accident, but there were some very the Shanghai rice mill, the crew in the case es narrow escapes, the Agincourt in particular caping alie. In the junk anchorage in the having a very close shave. The beated Empress upper reach, and off the Artenal there were a of Japan arrived outside Woosung about noon number of boats sunk and a lot of lumber got and the incoming German mail steamer Room.] America-Bank T.T.. adrift and floated down the liver on Saturday was well up to time. The embankment along Grmar-link TT giving the Castoms lunches plenty of work, the shore al Wassung Forts withstood the Most of the steamers in harhour were moored storm splendidly, and the top of the sea wall fore and alt, but several dragged their anchors
made a most useful and clean path for the in- and two bumped each other, without, however, numerable sightseers who visited the place consequences of note. The pontoons on the yesterday, as walking on the roads or in the foreshore all held, having been extra lashed.
country was impossible.
they saw a lot of native craft searing up the temporarily landed at Woosung, where they river, and among them what appeared to be a taxed to the utmost the capacity of the hotel, smal steamer. A quarter of 'n hour later a whose proprietor had his own difficulties to thr e-masted junk came tearing along and her deal with in the way of flooded rooms. cable caught the moorings of th Thistle, The as. Lobsang, which arrived here yester holding her for a few moments. The junk day from Foschow, reported that on the 2nd swung clear but then blew straight on to a dolphin with a crash her stern swung round, at 7am. she passed a derelict junk with decks awash and one mast amidships standing into Mr. Chambers' garden, and the afterpart forwards. The junk was bearing from the made itself comfortable situng on a bamboo Saudan Island, 7 miles south.
bour, which at ordinary times is fully ten feet from the water's ed. e.. Ail this time a number of calls for assistance were heard from the river, but the wind was of such terrific force Fender any aid. About two aclock a large it was impossible for those on shore to Ningpo junk was washed right asbare under the Wharf Office windows and was left by the receding tide with, her inner bilge up to the bunding top. Meantime a lot of dark objects rushing up the river mystified the watchers for some time, but eventually they were found to be logs of timber. There were thousands of them and in some unaccountable way many of them were locked together and standing on end, Hundreds of them were carried right on the wharves; me of them, forty feet long and two feet square, were blown completely across the top of the wharf staging
By morning the water had penetrated all the godowns at the East wharf and all at the West, except a coal godown. The roof of the No. 13
East wharf had blown off, and with the high wind still prevailing impossible to get near the godown as the ioof was lifting and cracking like big guns, and bricks were fulling every few moments. The Chinese houses on the harves were all badly wrecked and both ends of the compradore's house on the west what were blown down. The water was rushing through the property into the country behind like a mill race, destroying all the native huts in its way. The kast whasf staging and jetties were battered by the ourushing timber almost out of recognition. The underneath jetties were reported unsafe and some of the upper jetties were lifted right off the uprights. "
THE TYPHOON AT SEA.
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Of the pleasure craft the Lady Maud yacht was overturned and floated down stream early
on Saturday morning. She war towed ashore badly damaged. The Coronella was also sadly injured.
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The typhoon was felt more severely at Ningpo than at Shanghai and there is little doubt that the typhoon centre pasted very closemantics stebi LC, to the city. The wind on the 1st inst. blew To the unfeigned delight of a large crowd with hurricane force from the N. N. E. with of waiting children, and the relief of eld-heavy squalls. Towards midnight the typhoon ers perhaps more seriously anxious, the wind suddenly changed and blew very hard approached nearer, and just after midnight the 1-C.S. Chaytang came alongside the Ew from the West. The whole of the Ningpo Wharf about half past four yesterday afternoon, after exactly a week's run from Hongkong, and cement was flooded at high tide to a depil experiencing on the way the full force of the done, some of the foreign houses having a fost of three feet, and considerable damage was typhoon. The principal arrivals by the Chop of water over the ground floors. The bridge ang were the members of Messrs. Fitzgerald of boats leading to the native city carried Bark Bros Circus, and as the boat put into its bela, away at six o'clock in the evening when there Soverei amid musical strains from the hand, and the bulky form of the elephant was spied on the was a heavy traffic on it, and many people lower deck, a shout of exaltation went up from down the river carrying a portion of the bridge must have been drowned The boats drifted the children. Mr. Elephant, in his travelling railing, the bridge planking having, of course, though he had relished the trip rather than
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and houses washed away, while on the river and other steamers due to arrive at Shanghai, box, cost a lazy eye and a busy trunk about 35 given way precipitating everything on it into } ...wa New, there was some loss of life among the sampans and perhaps most of all for the ILMS. Empress | otherwise, and in fact the dogs, horse!, capsized, and one launch, a lorcha,' and five
of Jatkan, which was known to be bringing back many local holiday-makers from Japan, and which had been advertised to arrive at
the river. A large number of small boats
large junks were left high and dry on the
river bank when the tide receded and the
and junks, very many of which were wrecked.
At daylight on Saturday Shanghai presented the forlorn a pearance of a city which has un-daybreak on Saturday. The Norwegian steamer caged, all over the vessel, seemed to have weather moderated, which it commenced to do
dergone a bombardment. A sad sight, which appealest to everyone was the destruction among the trees. This was most severe on the French side of the Yangkingpang, where about half of the trees were uprooted. The garden of the French Coagulate was a desola tion. Very many of the trees on the English - Band were overturned, the force of their over throw having frequently broken the cement paving around. The Public Garden looked a wreck, and all about the Bubbling Well, Sinza, and other outlying roads trees were lying prone or far out of the perpendicwar
A FATALITY.
monkeys, and other animals who were subse quently to be seen, fastened, kenpelled, or
weathered the typhoon with the experience of seasoned travellers, while the ladies and gentle spirits, glad to touch terra firma once again, men of the ring were all in the happiest of
but by no means disconcerted by their sea adventures.
Eig was one of the earliest arrivals in port and the feat of bringing her up the Yangtze estemay. She carried a heavy cargo of coat
was, under the circumstances; remarkable, for most of the marks had been destroyed of re- moved from their anchorages by the storm, and
The Chayang, which is a splendid sea-boat Awithout a pilot who had first been. able to as it was Fanning considerable risk to come in
left Hongkong at 5 pet, last Sunday and certain exactly what had transpired.. House arrived in Swatow about 7 am next day, Island beaton and Kiutoa beacon were both Putting out twelve hours later, she encountered down the Tungsha lightship had drifted from so raging a sea that Capt. Selby decided to her anchorage, and there was other disorgan-eturn to the harbour for the night. On Tues
The Eig reported the Empress of isation, Japan safe and at anchor, but waiting for a pilot.
early on the morning of and inst. When the
damage being very extensive to property on all Kangteen left at 4 am, on Saturday, Ningpo presented a very devastated appearance, the
sides. The Kiangteen yesterday morning in quantities of wreckage, and Chinese coffins, in coming up the river to Shanghai met large threes and fours, were floating down the Huangpu.
CABLES INTERRUPTED
As one cons quence of the typhoon Shanghai clay another attempt was made but at noon thelated from the rest of the world. The Eastern came very near to being telegraphically iso- vessel was anchored in Tongsang harbour, the Extension Company's Foochow cable was re barometer then falling. At daylight the Choy ported interrupted early on Saturday morning, Friday shelter was taken in Bullock Harbour ng was again under way, but at noon on
and half an hour later another Express in- Saturday Captain Selby was able to proceed teports simply: Experienced strong North, increasing to heavy gales at times; high sca North-Easterly, and North-Westerly winds, and low barometer.
Some of the telephone and telegraph poles had suffered in, the same way. On Bubbling 4:30 pm. They had experienced a terrible time and he arrived safely yesterday as stated. He North China was cut off. The direct Japanese
Well Road a wire fell on Friday night, and ricsha canlie suffered electrocution. He be came entangled in the wire and incautiously putting his hand on it was pisonered complete ly. The foreigners who were with him ascer tained that a mackintosh coal "would act as a non-conductor and succeed in freeing the
A TEST FOR THE DESTROYERS,
timated that Shanghai Chefeo cable was in- operative and that all communication with cable had already been notified as out of work, and even the round about route via Formosa was unavailable for a time but was restored to on Saturday morning. At present the Great Northern Company's southern cable is our sale means of communication with the outer world.
native who pulled himself together, balted aout the storm. Soon the heavy seas swept the headway. When they arrived eight or nine fati on Friday orning. At 9 p.m. on that day
At 1.5 p.m. the Empress herself arrived at Woosung, and the passengers were brought up to the Bund by the tender Alexandra at Since Saturdaymorning. Nagasaki had been left at the scheduled time on Thursday afternoon in fine weather, but with the barometer falling, and a typhoon threatening. The ship was very full and tapt. Pybus put on all speed in order to make Woosung before the storm should break. He came up with the typhoon, however, while still thirty miles from the Saddles and the only thing possible was to turn round and tide vessel from stem to stern but it was never thought necessary to batten passengers down below. The ship sustained a certain amount of damage; the fare part of the captain's bridge was carried away and the end of the library stove in. The after bridge was also carried away, and one of the ship's boats was Long after the water had subsided from the seriously damaged. Yesterday morning early streets the low-lying Recreation Ground main the Empress was in the river, but waited to be tained its temporary resemblance to `the Welsh brought up as already stated. The passengers Harp. The mat shelter for carriages and ric- resolved to put their appreciation of the man- shas, had tumbled down, and also the mat roofner in which Capt. Puby's had brought them of the swimming bath giving a most dilapidal testimonial. It is also reported that the through a perilous time into the shape of a
ed aspect. Water polo might have been played steamer lost an anchor. on the golf links, but we have not heard of any sport on Saturday.
few yards, an-las the foreigners thought escaped, He fell dead, however, a short distance away. A foreign constable and some Sikhs were sub- sequently put on duty to warn passers-by till the dangerous wire could be removed.
The cellars of Kalee and the Astor House were finoded and on Saturday two fire engines ware requisitioned to pump them dry. The Kalee cellars were flooded again on Saturday night and yesterday afternoon the Delure co- gine was again at work,
THE LOSS OF GOODS.
H. M. destroyers Dee and Ezr, which arrived here yesterday from Weihaiwei, encountered very severe weather on the way down, steam. ing for twenty-four hours without making any men were taken to the sick bay of H.M. Bonaventure suffering from broken ribs and more or less severe cuts and bruises, experience, though an unpleasant one, proves at any rate the seaworthiness of these new style of destroyers, with the high bow.
The
." THE BAROMETER. From the barometric readings it will be noticed that at Sicawei the mercary began to it measured 29 65 inches; at 4 pm, it had fal len to 29 48; at 9 p.m. to 29.38; and at a m. on Saturday, when the typhoon had just passed file under half an inch. Thence it recovered at its height, to 29.29 inches; a mal drop of a
rapidly and at 9 a.m. yesterday the reading was 29.79 inches.
reading at midnight on the 1st of 29 inches.
The C. M. S. Kwangchi recorded the lowest
REMINISCENT.
The last food recorded in Shanghai oc Curred over fifty years ago, but the general, level of the ground and roads was at least two to that food a large
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.- light transforming stations the current had to Owing to the flooding of all the electric be cut off on Friday night, and consequently on Saturday and yesterday there was no power for the fans and light in the Club and several had to be employed. There was an damage feet lower than it is now. other large buildings, and other illuminants sustained at the Electic Light Works beyond From the Mercury we learn that before the water coming up through the concrete floor of quantity of cargo was damaged in godowns,
the pits under the switchboard and some of the machinery, although at one time the high tension cables were working whilst under water All the damage was sustained in the trang forming stations, the water in several caser rising through the floor and when the flood subsided the water had to be pumped out and the transformers dried'; in some cases the latter operation will take several days. The street works, and therefore the lamps were kept a ping lighting current is directly connected with the all the time, though all Saturday they wobbled lights and fans were going again at the Club rather more than usual. By last night the
vessel arrived at Woosung, the passengers drew us the following letter of appreciation of the skillet seamanship of Captain Pybus, bis officers and crew. Mr. Geo. Bayne was select- ed to make the addres, which he did in a few well chosen words:
Ta Commander H. Pybus, R.W.R.
The passengers on the Empress of Jupan having passed through the severe typhoon of last nigle, fully recognising the able services The most serious consequence of the typhoon, desire to record their high appreciation of the of yourself, your officers and crew, hereby however, is the heavy loss caused to foreigners skilful manner in which the ship was handled and Chinese alike in the destruction of property, during what must have been a perig of severe The damage done is variously estimated, but it tension and anxiety.
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and this led to the introduction of the wooden restles on which the cargo was piled to raise it from the floor. The community was very small at that time, and there was a wall run- ning along the Bund northward from Pekin Road, and the late Mr. E. A. Reynalds used to relate how almost the whole community came out and sat on that wall, watching the wreck. age in the river, until the tide went down. HONGKONG YOUNG MEN CHRISTIAN
sixties the water used to come up to where There was no land then where the Public Gar den is, and spring sides even down to the "iemssen & Co.'s entrance gate now stands.
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does not seem too high to pat it at from eight to thanks to all concerned in protecting their Road, and most of the houses on the Bubbling |
They therefore wish to express their warmest and other permises on the Bund, Nanking ANOTHER TYPHOON INCIDENTED for its 4th Session on MONDAY,
safely and their lives. Woasting on the 2nd September, 19 5. (Signed)
H. Hoyd, A. Linien, M. Watson, J. C. losustow, Percy Tilley. J. A. F. Bidwell, M.
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HE NIGHT SCHOUL of the above will Well Road. The people who are likely to suf
The steamship Eastern had an interesting MERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE, SHORT- OCTOBER 2ND). BOOKKEEPING, COM fer worst are those living in Whangpoo Road and the Hangkew District, as these trans experience during the recent typhoon. Cap. HAND, TYPEWRITING, BEGINNERS The damage sustained through the wind was the 29th ult, and called at Moji. On leaving ADVANCED ENGLISH, MAS DARIN formers will probably take several days to dry, tain G. H. Powell, the master, le Kobe on ENGLISH, INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH,
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ten millions of taels. All sections of the com munity have suffered more or less, not the least to be condoled with being the small householders whose private effects have been damaged and the retail storekeepers, some of. Lee, Edmund Lee, Woodward, M.D, A. L. Very slight indeed-only two pales having fal Maji on the 31st August, and when near the CHARACTER, and ANY OTHER SUB-
Penderell Walker, W. W. hacher, Edmund
len in the whole settlement. The staff at the
Electric Light Works are putting forth all their Goto Islands, the falling, glass warned Captain fifty men were ut work outside. It is almost great discretion he turned the Ensters and ran strength to restore order, and yesterday some Powell, that a typhoon was appr aching. With needless to say that the Department bas never for shelter to Tama No-Ura Bay in the Gotos. had to cope with such a condition of affairs The full force of the typhoon was encountered the staffs of some of our contemporaries have style. As an evidence of the character of the Among the results of the breakdown are that but the vessel mode on the storm in excellent enjoyed a panial respite from work, with storm it need only be said that the barometer bathing included, as we understand.
he ore.
AT WOOSUNG.
whom have much damaged stock on hand Ttein, Wm. Geo. Bayne, R. St. George Moore, But in point of amount, of course, the chief Alexander S. Harvey, Fred Clayson, H. Hun destruction was in the godowns, which un-ter, J. Collins and wife, K. McKelvie, Florence luckily as it happened, were very heavily awks Pott. James Ross, Joseph R. Patterson, Boyle, Josephine Graves, Lucy Graves, F. L. stocked. Piece goods, silk, tea, flour, rice, Samuel R. Cale, Wm. Danby, Elizabeth W. stocks of these and other commodities have Graves, Jennie Groundwater, Lucy de 5t. been irretrievably damaged, and the losses to Croix, Carrie Moss, G. T. Shekury, Berry some firms are very serigus indeed. A ques- Skekury, May Chandler, F. Schwyzer, Rd. tion has naturally arisen as to the responsibi. Nissing, Ethel M. Gough, A. L. MacHale, Marjorie MacHaffie, 5. L. Dodson, S. N. Foll,
fell to 29 40. On the afternoon of the 2nd inst., lily of the Wharf und Godown Companies, but D. tactillivary, Edith MacGillivary. Lizzie
the gale moderated a title, and on the morning without venturing into any question of law, it | A. MacGillivary, F. A. Crailshaw, A. E. Algar, Apart from the damage done to cargo in go of the 3rd inst, the voyage was resumed. A is difficult to see how preparations could be Guinevere K. Harris, D. 5. Sweeting, C. 5. downs on both sides of the river the wind and high sea was running, but afterwards the wea made to meet such an unexpected contingency Sparker, Barnes Muss, E. Findley, Edaatide have wright most havec in the low-tying ther calmed and after the first 18 hours the Ross, Mrs. James Foss, Mrs. F. Schwzer, villages and country of Foatung and Woosung, as Friday's flood. Many victims were going Florence E. Ford, Phoebe Gale, Moore, Mrs. On the looting side the embankment failed to captain and officers found the condtions much about on Saturday trying to argue that a Joh. Kolkmeyer, S. A. Ford, Mabel L. Morell, withstand the force of the tide and some houses more favourable to a rapid passage. The typhoon did not come under what in insurance. Kolkmeyer, F. Morgan hillips, W. D. were completely demolished while others were Eastern, which is one of the E. & A. Company's Leitch, E. C. H. Moule, A. Shewan, Cicely flooded up to the second storey. Hundreds of vessels, arrived at Hongkong early yesterday parlance is called an "Act of God.".
R. E. Harris, Marion S. Mitchell, Helena K. lives were lost, and from one house alone six Butler, Lottie Phillips, Jeanette Townshend, dead bodies were removed on Saturday, morning. The wharves on the Pastung side had a Geoladis K, Ling, Katherine Clayson, Throughout the country coffins were floating particularly bad time. The case of the Shang-F. A. Cumming, Y. Takami, K. Matsunagai, of corpses have been seen floating down river Hyderal, E. E. Karwa, Irving S. Boydstun, and many were broken to pieces, and hundreds
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y. Neiva, S. Yamanaka, C. D. V. Huat, Liuting K. Wong, Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Sheldon,
hai and Hongkew Company's Wharves may be
in the vicinity of Woosung. From just below taken as typical. The afternoon tide on Friday
Chiangwan up to Woosung Forts, the water only rose to about eighteen inches from the top
came far pasi the railway line on Saturday' or the wharf decking, and as the 'floors of the Captain Pybus replied in a few neat wards morning and large tracts of land are still under godown are all more than a foor, above the top both his officers, crew and himself great completely washed away, and two tremendous and said that the address just read had given water. The leggars village at Waosung was level of the staging, and the highest tide ever
pleasure. They had only done their duty and junks were carried broadside on against the experienced in Shanghai only rose three inches it was nothing out of the ordinary routine of a embankment bordering the railway-a quarter above the decking, it was thought that the go- sailor's life. Threa loud cheers brought the of a mile inlaid. Another juak was carried right downs would be free from flooding. Such anti-proceedings to a close.
over the high embankment and is now stranded The report of our Northern morning conten there high and dry. Yesterday the crews of cipations allowed, therefore, for a flood lide dur-
porary continues:
these junks were busy getting cargo out ing the night of 24 feet more than the day tide. The M. M. S. Armand Behic with the home. Other small craft were smashed to pieces by The water actually rose about 4 feet higher at going French mail could not be despatched as the force of the current and the buffeting. night, but the exact depth was not ascertain advertised on Friday night and intending In the early stages of the storm upwards of able as it was impossible for anyone to reach passengers who went down to Woosung in two hundred junks took refuge in the Woo
the tender Whangpoo were brought back to sung Creek, but found themselves in a the wharf to measure it. About 6 pm. the Shanghal for the night. Those who intended cul-de-sac. It would have been far better for fences around the property began to be blown to depart by the R.M. S. Tartar for Japan on them and for ather small craft had they re down, and by to p.m. quite a lot of the roof of Saturday had an even more uncomfortable, mained io the open river, for in the creek there thecal manager's house had blown off.
experience. When the tender Alexandra ar- was a tumultuous jamb, and confusion resign. rived at Woosung the sea was running moused supreme, with the result that over one hun- Rekers, Chambers and Marshall went out to tains high and as it was impossible to pat dred fanks were badly damaged-somo sunk— see what was happening, and at about 1 am. I passengers on board the steamer, they were and at least ong hundred and fity lives lost.
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GRAND CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
SATOF DAY, VIC-REGAL NIGHT. Doors Open at 8 P.M. Commence at 9 Sharp. Under the direct patronage of His Excellency the Governor, Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, K.C.M.G.
THE FAMOUS
GAIETY STARS,
POLITE VAUDEVILLE.
Bob. 335 b. ****** 330 b,
85 sa. &c b. as b.
NEW SONGS,
944,
+
Tan Tan 23(K
***
21 1.
3lb.
WAT
+
+
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... 194
*** Icob. ... 127 3. *** 55
+
345 b. ex. div. 11 a. & b, Tls, 516.
$14. 281.
m 14 Di
Kowloon What's... Hongkong Lands... West Points ... Hongkong Hotels. Humphreys, Ewo Cottons... Hongkong Cottons Green Island Cements... fu & Watsons...
NEW DANCES,
NEW PICTURES. ONLY ONE OPINION:
THE BEST SHOW YET SEEN IN HONGKONG. Special late Trams to Feak and elsewhere. Box Plan at the ROBINSON PIANO CO.
Price
$3, $2 and $1. MATINEE: SATURDAY, AT 3.00. Children so Cents all parts.
Adults $1 ditto. Hongkong, 8th September, 1995.
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...... 8.00 Per Dozen Quarter Bottles......... 1.10
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