: : : 8.2% : : 279 34691 instances reports have been made to both the Hospital and the Police. On the other hand the loss of many boats which went down with everyone interested in them on board has not been and will never be reported. Reports, however, are still coming in and eventually it should be possible to frame a fair estimate of the loss in the different classes of junks, cargo boats and sampans. I trust that this will show that the late Captain Barnes-Lawrence's impression of the 18th September that about half the Chinese craft in the harbour had been destroyed was somewhat pessimistic but comparing the appearance of the harbour before that date with its aspect now I am by no means certain that this will be the case. The number of fishing and other boats frequenting the harbour and bays of Hongkong was estimated in 1905 at 10,000.
age to private buildings.
18. As regards private houses in the Central District of Victoria, 2 Chinese houses in Queen's Road Central, 2 in Gough Street, and 1 in Aberdeen Street suffered some injury and in the Eastern District walls collapsed in 2 adjoining houses in Yu Wo and Fung Un Street near Causeway Bay. On the sea front walls collapsed in 2 Godowns on the East Praya, the Lang Kat Oil Company's Godown