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fie wharf to the Borneo Company's premises, some ten houses were knocked down. The ship Lizzie & Rosa lies off the Pig Lan well filled with water, having struck, and injured her bot- tom. Outside of her, and bottom upwards, lag the Borneo Company's barque Courier. In front of the same company's offices also lies their vessel the Imogen, a total wreck, but we bear that the crew
Farther were saved. on lay the Morning Light, a complete wreck, with all her masts gone, and beyond her were several other vessels dismasted and otherwise injured. In addition, we bear that the Maury and the Aldebaran were either The badly dabinged or had been wrecked. steamer Amoy also got badly ashore; and a The Siamese barque, name not known, sunk. M.M. steamer Ava has ridden the storm out
Early this morning abo adwirably. observed steaming to her ordinary anchorage having apparently, during the height of the gale, been forced to the Westward. Wo hear the little tng Sea Bird, belonging to Lane,! Crawford & Co., bas sunk; and among the minor casualties we may meation one of the ferry boats; two Government steam launches sunk the old Hospital ship ashore near the Naval Yard, and all the launches and boats' belonging to that institution either ashore or; broken up. At the extreme West Point were several junks ashore, laden with merchandize, and yesterday morning the Chinese were busily engaged diving for the cargo, A large number of bodies were washed up during the day, and some heartrending scenes occurred where wo men and others recognised their friends and relations. The Praya wall from the Bath House to the extreme West is almost completely washed away, and presented a most desolate appearance. The body of the captain of the Leonor was unexpectedly discovered, some time after the foundering of that vessel, actually half way up the Alley between Messrs. Turner & Cols to Meesrs, Carlowitz, and nearer to the Queen's Road than to the Praya.
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GREEN ISLAND.
We hear that the Therese dollided with the Morning Light, and that the former is now lying bottom up near to Green Island, and that the. latter vessel is lying near the same spot. It is reported that all, except two, men on board the Therese were lost, and if this is correct, the casualty is a very sad one, as the Captain, his wife and all on board would appear to have had no chance of escape. The Belle Sauvage is stated to have been last seen in this neighbourhood. A vessel, name not yet known however, was ob served there yesterday broken up, but she is j supposed to be another ship.
STONE CUTTER'S ISLAND.
This spot, one of the customary places of re- fuge for small craft, was crowded with junke and sampans of all descriptions at an early honr on Tuesday. Many of them however were, not- withstanding this precaution, unable to weather out the gale and were dashed ashore by the waves, where nambers of them lay high and dry bottom upwards yesterday. The loss of life among the Chinese must, it is feared, have been very great.
KOWLOONG,
The gale was felt very severely here, and the damage done to the junks which went over for refuge is also very large many of them having been forced a great distance on sbore. Three foreign vessels are also reported ashore. EASTWARD.
Immense damage, both in the barbour and ashore, was done Eastwards. As usual a nom- ber of native craft sought shelter in the creek, where in an ordinary way they are safe, but so violent was the wind that many of them over bere were severely damaged or broken up. One junk, we hear, was cast ashore as far as 150 yards inland. The Wan Loong stranded and sank in this neighbourhood. In Jardine's Bazaar facing Causeway Bay, all the houses have been blown down. The Hongkong Ice Com- pany's chimney fell, as also that of the Sagar Company. We learn also that the latter sustained great loss in consequence of the water rushing in some three feet deep and in- jaring a large quantity of sugar. Considerable injury was also done by water to one of Jar- dine, Matheson & Cole Godowns. Captain Glover's house was greatly damaged. One of Messrs. Jardine's residences, occupied by Mr. Magniac, was completely unroofed. At th
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-East Point Foundry, the roof of the boiler shed i was completely taken off, and the other parts of the premises sustained considerable damage. We also hear that they have lost two of their steam launches. Returuing Westward, the Houses at Wanchi present almost as desolate an appearance as those in the Western part of the town. Numbers of them are unroofed and uthere have sustained damage more or less serious. Near the Eastern Market about fifteen housea bave been blown cleau down, but we learn that the majority of the immates es- caped. The pier helonging to the Pier and Godown Company has met the expectations of the builders by weathering a typhoon of greater magnitude them could even bave been anticipated. The galvanized sued and other structures upon it have, it is needless to say, been completely blown away. The Bath bouse Was bound to go, and has gone completely-all that remains being one-half of the pier.
A great deal of the wall at the cricket ground bas been washed away.
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, ETC. The loss in the Centre of the town has of. course not been so great as at the Praya, but the injury is nevertheless of a heavy character. The Queen's Road bas escaped_pretty_fairly, the worst injury being to some of the shops in the Queen's Road West. In Wellington Street, Messrs. Schelihase & Co.'s house, abutting on Grabam Street, was unroofed and several of the partition walls blown away, and much injury done į inside. In Bollywood Road, the top stories of several of the smaller bouses are completely blown down while some of the verandahs of the larger were swept away. Trees strewed the road in all directions, rendering it uppassable at several points, and we may note here that the ronds in all directions were strewn with branches and in many instances with whole trees. In Aberdeen-street, the London Mission House received the full force of the galo-sev.ral windows being blown right ont aud parti- tion walls, &c., shattered. The house at the corner of Staunton and Aberdeen Streets has been almost completely stripped of its verandahs; and a number of Chinese houses in the same locality wore auroofed, while others sustained damage of a less serious nature. In Bridges Street about a dozen houses occupied by Portugese fell down, but fortunately not more than one person was injured. He was a Manilaman, who was unfortunately sick and could not be got off his bed in time to prevent his being buried under the rains of the falling house, though his wife made every effort
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get him
taken away. In Rozario street the whole of the voraŭ. data wont, but the houses escaped. Here a very peculiar incident occurred. A daring band of robbers went round and knocked at the doors of the various houses demanding admission, which was of course not accorded, On coming to Mr. Pareira's house they threaten- ed to burst open the door, and to prevent their doing so, be fired at them, after giving them warning, but did not hit any of them. Not- withstandingtbis, however, they continued in the yard till about half past four o'clock. This dar ing act was probably prompted by the fact that the street is most defectively lighted. Along the Caine Road the damage was not so great as might have been expected from the exposed position of many of the houses. On the lower side of the read the injury was most apparent. Mr. Belilios's house " Kings-cleare" "had the vane- tians and railinge damaged; a part of the roof of Sir John Smaale's house was laid-bare, aud considerable damage was done to Forest Lodge, the residence of Dr. Adams. Baxter House was completely blown away at one end, and the Berlin Foundling House also sustained much in- jury. Seen from this locality, China towu present- od a most desolate appearance. Tier after tier of houses were seen rooßess and with their rafters and supports standing bure, Mr. Ede's house at the end of the residences on the Pokfulum road had a portion of the roof carried away. Returning to the Eastward, the first house to notice as much damaged was that occupied by Mr. Loweock, which had a hole blown through the roof. The East part of the Hermitage was riddled, and the inmates bad take refuge in the other portion for the Government night. The damage done at House is very slight indeed, and does not ex- tend beyond injury to a few venetians. A large