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SUPPLEMENT
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 8ra MAY, 1877.
Merchant Vessels in Hongkong Harbour. Exclusive of late Arrivals and Departures reported to-day,
To facilitate finding the position of any vessel in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided into eight Sections, commanding at Groon Island. Voels near the Hongkong shore are marked , near the Kowloong shore k., sad those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore are marked c., in conjunction with the figures denoting the sections.
Scolion.
1. From Green Island to the Gas Works.
2 From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Works,
3. From Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour Master's Office.
4. From Harbour Master's to the P. and O. Co.'s Office.
Section.
5. From P. and O. Co.'s Office to Poddar's Wharf,
6. From Peddar's Wharf to the Naval Yardı
7. From Naval Yard to the Pior
8 From Pier to East Point.
Fessel's Name,
Captain.
Flag and Big.
Tuna
Date of Arrival.
Consignees or Agents.
Destination.
Remarks.
Steamers
Ajax
..
eKidd
Brit.
str. 1549 May
Arratoon Apcar
5 b McTavish
Balt.
str. 1392 May
Bombay
*
16 Smith
Brit
Braemar Costie
Ayles
Brit.
4 Spowart
4 b Tanner
A Wood
16
Pitman
6 h Theband
Feronia
Schulta
Gor.
str. 805 May str. 1089 April
Globlyon
o Wallace.
Brit
str. 1378 May
Gunga...
3
Garceau
Foh.
str. 797 April
Killroey
5 cO'Neill
Nelson Nlogpo
5 b Staples
Caaz
Brit. atr.
Per guir Süada
Salvadora Yottung Zamboanga
Exiling Vessels A. T. Stalknecht
Albert Russell
3 c Schütt
5 b Cowell
4 b
Brit, Brit.
894 Apell 761 May str. 1122 May str. 37 Dec
4 h Hormanches
12 b
Spanntz. Brit. etr.
616 May
Cairnsmuir
Candin
City of Paking Orph enes
Douglas Esmoraida
4 h Dumbuck
str. 749 May str. 1424 April Brit, sir. 1120 May Brit. str. 1992 May Amer. str. 5079 Mag Brit. str. 1280 May Brit, str. 80% May Brit,
!Brit str.
Brit. str.
Shanghai.
8 David Sassoon, Sons & Co. S'pore, Calcutta, &c.
3P. & O. S. N. Co. 24 Adamson, Bell & Co. 3Holliday, Wise & Co. 8 Gibb, Livingston & Co. 1P. M. S. S. Co. 4Gibb, Livingaton & Co. 5 Douglas Lapraik & Co." 6A. MGG. Heaton 20 Wa Fustan & Co.
8 Jardine, Matheson & Co. 26 Hop Kes & Cop
600 May 6 Ab Yon
28 Jardine, Matheson & Co.
siemseen & Co.
BJardine, Matheson & Co. 17 P. or D. 5, H. Gọi
7 Brandao & Co,
Hankow
Yokohama & Hiogo
[Y'baros & 8. F'cisco Mafls, 15th
Saigon
Coast Ports Manila
To-day
In Dock
Cooktown & Sydney To-morrow
Cooktown
S'pore, Calcutta, &c.
Amoy
8 Butterfield & Swire
Yokohama
Bankow
Malla
to-day
To-morrow
$24 Juna 9 Kwok Acheong
K'loong Docks
Repairing:
Valanceno
Span. str.
651 April 26 Ah Yon
Ger. bge.
18 cCarver
Amer, bqe
539 April 23 Siemen & Co.
762 April 13 Vogel, Hagedorn & Ob.
Aline
8.cGuilbert
Brit, bqo
299 May
Order
America
2 kHoldt
Gor. sh. 1219 May
1 Sierssen & Co.
Arabolla
18 c Pearson
Brit bye.
665 April
16 Meyer & Co.
(Cooktown
Salgon
New York
Cebu London
Aurora
3 cMilne
Brit.. bqo.
296 May
3 Chinese
Reethoven
18 dBaje
¡Ger. boo.
340 May
7 Melcuera de Co.
Verca
4k Specht
Ger. bge
420 May
6Wm. Pustau & Co.
Channel Queen
8 Lacheur
Brit. sh
609 May
Eduard Sobellhass & Co.
Charité
2 h Hervé
Fch, bqe.
250 May
2 Jarlowitz & Co.
Oliarlotte Andrews
Lalla Rookh
Mary Whitridge
Charles Maureau
Obeng Soon
Cooran Deutschland
Ellen Rickmera
Emma Evening Star Fabius Falcon Fleetwing Glamorganshire Glengaira
Gustav & Marie
Bannah Taw Belena
Hydra
Irene Jan Pater
Leucadia
Loiterer
New Era
Nyassa
Picciola
I_Fran
8 Aebura
2 h Quatresous
Feh. bgo.
368 April 29 Landstein & Co
Newch wang
4 lace
Brit, bqe.
356 May 1 Rozario dr Co.
2 b Chong Sang
Siam, ach.
200 April 30 Jhinese
B Villar
Amer, ach.
230 April 19insurance Company
4 Tiemann
Ger. bqe.
269 May 6 Arnhold, Barberg & Co.
Weydemann
Ger. bqe.
307 April 28 Melchers & Co.
New York
Ger. bae.
340 May 2 Wm. Puatau & Co,
Brit. bge.
371 April 14 Wieler & Co.
Halphong
2 b Holze
Sism. Bb.
635 April 28 Kin-tye-loong
2 h Vio
Brit: bgo.
386 April 23 Tuon fat Hong
8 Guest
Amer, sh,
829 May 7 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.
9 McEachern
Brit bge.!
466 April 30, Kiær & Co..
8 cFinnistos
Brit sh.
895 April 11Wm. Pustau & Co.
Manila
4c Doose
Ger. ali.
2 Greig
Brit. sh. 1299 April
18. c Snow
Amer, bee. 603 May
8 c Dest
4 Hanson
Ger, sch.
4 Ewert
2 Render
8 Moarne
7 h Vincent
8 Cutle
6 Jawyer
18 eGarriock
13. Grafe
Rosetta MoNail
3 Brown
Rosina
8 Hansen
Rurik
4 Burgeland
k Cobada
8
Griffin
St. Joseph.
Terese
Tewksbury. L. Sweat
Thomas Lord
Thoon Kramom
Tulloobgoruna
Villa de Rivadavia W. H. Deite Wealthy Pendleton Woodlark
WHAMPOA
Obristian
Eudoris Adolphine
8 Damont
8 cHall
2 cVorrath
Mason
4 cCarmus 18 cEndicott 8 dBlanchar
8- eLargie
345 May 8 Arnhold, Karberg & Co.
28P. & O. 3. N. Co. 4arahold, Karborg
Ser, bqe.: 785 Mar. 27 šiemssen & Co.
Ger. bqe.
Brit. bqa. Brit. sh Amor. sch amor. ah
265 May
6jCarlowitz & Co. 338 April 26 Siemssen & Co. 814 April 20 Melchers & Co.
890 April 18 Mieyer & Co..
45 Aug 13 Insurance Cos. 862 April 18 Russell & Co. 1060 April 25 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.'
799 April 7 W. Pustau & Co. Ger. bqo.) 238 April 28 Sietussen & Co. |Amer, bro.
Brit. sh. Brit. eh.
611 Mar. 35 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co, Am.3m. ao. 406 Feb. 28 Arnhold, Karborg & Co. Ruas. bqe.
83) Mar. 25 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Fch bge. 289 May 4Carlowitz & Co. Span. boe. 251 Mar. 31 Siómasen & Co. Amer, bqe. 560 May 7 Meyer & Co Amer. h 1316 April 12 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Siaz. bge. 474 Ap: 29 Siemesen & Co. Brit.3m.so. 175 April 20 Wieler & Co. Span. bg. 261 April 28 Brandao & Co. Amer. bqo. 48 April 19rnhold, Karberg & Co. Amer. bqe. SUB April 19 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.
860 May 7 Gibb, Lävingston & Co.
8Eduard Schellhass & Co. 1Carlowitz & Co,
London.
San Francisco›
San Francisco
Haiphong
San Francisco- Keolung,
Brit. eh.
Gastav Adolph
Novelty
Vosta
Stohr Valot Neemann Colliver Dirks
Ger. Sm. sc. 292 May Fch. bg. 254 May Gor. bqe. 300 April Brit. bqe. 375 May Ger. bqe. 302 May
Tientsia
2) Eduard Schellbass & Co,
Tientsin
8 Rozario & Co.
8 Melchora & Co.
CANTON
China Fuyew
Akermann Croad
Gor-str. 648 May JOLL otr. 920 May
30, M. S. N. Co.
· Men-of-war in Hongkong Harbour.
4 Siemssen & Co.
Shanglia Shanghai
P.&O. Wharf
& Ob.
Callao
London
London
Manila
Now York
Mabili
[To-day
Now York
Sands' Slipy
Vessel's Name.
Anchor-
aga.
Flag.
Class
Tons. Grins, H. P.
Date of
Commander..
Arrival.
Charybdio
6 British
corvette
1506:
April 5 T. E. Smith
Corlew
Eart
Luise
6 h British h British 60 German
gan vessel' gun veasel
774
3
160
May 嗟 E. J. Church
165
May 6 H. N. Hood
Corvette
1309
400
May 1
Magpie-
Mecance
Modeste
NASSAU
Patino
Sylvia
Tamar
Tejo
Victor Emanuel
British British Britiab
K.D. Spanish
British
7 c British Novelty Works Portug
At Canton
6 h
gun vessel military hospital corvette
774
May 2
2591
1405 14
360
April 13
7 h British
aurveying vessel
696
4
150.
May 1
transport
1200
Feb. 23
surveying vessel.
693
April 27
troop ship
4867
May 5
gun vossel
444
100
Jen. 8
09
British
Commodore's flag-ship 3087
2
Ashuelot
American
Corvette
1037
700 May 4
Fly
British
gun Vessel
464
4
HONGKONG, MACAO AND CANTON RIVER
Ditmar
Charles Vernon Anson:
Alex. Buller, C.B;"
Kapello
W. Bonham Bax
W. H. Liddell
Commodore Watsons
Geo, H. Perking 120 May 5 John. Bruce
CHINESE GUN-VESSELS IN CANTON. WATERS, &c.
+
R. H. Napier
F. Amaral
STEAMERS.
Name,
Tuns. Captain.
Owners.
Name,
Tons. Guns, E, P.
Commander.
Fame Fei Wan
117 Stopant
Jehang
700❘ Martia
Kia Shan
457
Kiu King
617
Lintin
69
Powan
1890
Sir J. Jo
Spark White Cloud Fotual
EL. & W'poa Dock Co. An-lan B., C. & M. 8.-boat Co. Chen-jul- Butterfield and Swire Ching-po Cary
H., C. & M. S.-boat Co. Ching-sing Bonning, T. H., C. & M. S.-boat Co. | Chun-hai
Kwok Acheong
Peng-chou-bat Benning, A., C. & M. S.-boat Co. Quong-on 701 Hawtins Kwok Acheong 140 Lefevoar 280 Hoyland 180 Browns
431
29
100
J. Godall
E. F. Collins
Wan Lum Wan.
E. Choy
230
600
400
C. H. Palmer
180
80
Li Ping Tys
H., O. & M. S.-boat Co. H., O. & M. S.-boat Co. Kwok Acheong
Shen chi But-tsing Tebing-tsing. Tien-po Wing-po
150
B. Wade
Stewart
150
-6
60
Bessard
1:50
6
C. De Longueville
800
150
Lam Man Wo
FOUCHOW SHIPPING IN PORT, April 28, 1877,
MERORANT ATRAMEES,
MERCHANT STEAMERI
Glenearn
British
Sindh
French
Gleneagles
British
Tabyew
Chinese
Foochow Ninguo
for Swatow
Glenartney
British
Tunsin
British
for Blongkong
SHIPPING IN SHANGHAI HARBOUR,
H. C. Orated Hankwang Hazyang
Danfah
MERCHANT SAILING VESSELS.
Chirene
British
Flying Send
British schooner
Honor
Ühinese
April 28, 1877.
Kiang-chang
Chinese
MENGHANT STEAMERS.
Kiang-wae
Chinese
Anchinda
British
Kiangrung
Chinese
Appin
British
Lombardy
British
Frolic
Chinlung
Chinese
Loudoun Castle
-British
Conquest
British
Nanking
'American
Europe
British
Saikio Mara
Japanese
Fleurs Castle
British
Sobol
Fuslyama
Chinese
* Since left port, or arrived at Hongkong,
Surprise
Por Ardus Ville de Lille
*Curlew
Kestrel
Monocacy Pedos
British barqua
British barque -
MEN-dr-WAR
F. M. gunboat. H. M. gun-vessel H. M.. gunboat U. S. corvette U. S. gunbost Rasalan ganbost French gunboat
No. 4321.-MAY S, 1877.]
The age of the building and the consequent roftenness of the wooden supports are, we
THE CHINA MAIL.
thought to be not an insignificant term of down. He did not go last year, and the shrubs had therefore grown to a considerable labour in a tropical climate.
Lokong was awarded 50 cents,
believe, the causes of the verandah giving We understand that Mr C. F. A. Sangs.size. Fined $1, and the apprehending neck, and each one of the wounds was the Master of the steamor and the Agents of his father; he looked rather like a victim
way; and the adjoining verandah, that of the French Consulate, appears now to be in a dangerous condition.
Tax foul-smelling and badly-kept gully which formerly existed to the west of St. Paul's College has given place to a pleasant piece of green sward, dotted with trees and
ter has undertaken to perform the duties of Deputy Registrar during Mr Huffam's. absence.
THE Loudoun Castle left yesterday (May 2nd) for Hankow, and the Gleneagles and Glenartney were expected to leave at day- light on the 3rd. The Stad Amsterdam arrived in port on the Bad from London, and after discharging her cargo will also proceed to Hankow. She has received im. provements in her engines and machinery, and looks forward to a quick passage home. -N. C. D. News.
bruba Much labour has been expended on the filling-up of the ugly gap and the construction of the conduit or drain, and a large water-tank has been built at the head of the former valley. The works are a The following Reuter's Telegrams, taken decided improvement to the neighbourfrout the Straits Times, contains some hood, as most of. Mr Price's efforts are; additional information to that furnished and we would feel quite at ease, as well as in telegrams already published :- unboundedly grateful, did we but know that the public works department had the "ssored "special fund at its back.
London, April 29.-The Turkish Fleet has commenced bombarding, Potl, Onager and Galatz.
The Russian Troops have ocoupled Guirgevo (or Giorgevo.)
Cape Town, March 17,-It is expected that the Transvaal States will be annexed, and the 13th Regiment of Infantry have been ordered up to Nowcastle...
A CORRESPONDENT aaks whether the prome. nude between the City Hall and the Mili. tary Wharf has been wholly given up to "beach-combers," He says that several Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji, mambers of that class appear to have lived whose salary is £5,000 per annum, has, it is stated in New Zealand papers, volun- on the Cricket Ground or on the Bund tarily, and for the second time, returned seats for the last eight or ten days. There £2,000 of his pay to the Colonial chost. is no reason why oitizens of all classes noble Marquis who rales over Maori land, A New Zealand paper pictures the most should not breathe the fresh air, and theas elevating his eyebrows, on reading the principle that this is "a free country" announcement, and with an emphatic must be kept inviolate; but the Pollos shrug, declaring that Sir Arthur, "always might nevertheless keep their weather-eye- open and occasionally turn it in the direction Indicated, so that peace and good order may bo maintained.
eccentric," has now become mad as a halter,
TIPST.
Tantar, was found drunk in a chair at the Nicholas Willahiro, seaman H. M. S. Parade Ground, and the bearers did not know what to do with him, so he was taken to the Station by the Police. Fined 50
cents,
ANIMAL,
RINGING INTO THE COLONY JA DISEASED. Mak Aching, & farmer, was charged by P. C. George Kae with bringing a calf here which was visibly suffering from prou- monia. The Constable took the animal and tied it in the rear of the Police Stable. A distressing fatal accident occurred on This morning, it became worse and was board the Telegraph Company's steamer hardly able to stand. The defendant sald Edinburgh on Sunday morning last while he bought the animal from Sai hoong and the vessel was opposite Malaosa on her way brought it here on the 4th inst. The calf to this port Two nativo sailors, having was then in good health, but it became bad complained of illness, were ordered Epsom during the voyage, which was a long one salte by the chief officer, and a native boy He was despatched to the store to obtain the wished to sell the animal, and this was why salts. He brought, however, instead, a owing to continuous head winds. he was leading it in the street. Fined $10 bottle of chloral hydrate, which was given or 14 days' hard labour.
to the men, and the mistake was not die covered until five minutes afterwards. Both men died shortly afterwards. An inquest was held yesterday at the Sopoy Linea on a verdict of "Accidental poisoning" was their bodies, and, after hearing the evidence, returned.
13
LARCENY.
Manila.
board,
The remanded case in which Mr W. We (Straits Times) have been shown as in- Wellington Street and D'Aguilar Street, Bendicht, a storekeeper at the corner of genious and perfect a specimen of a forged charged Chun Apew on suspicion of bar bank note sa, wo venture to say, the skill of ing stolen out of his godown near Messrs man could devise. To look at, it is almost Rozario & Co.'s premises, two large tins of batter than a real note. It is one for $500 candied fruit containing 60 lbs. each, came News from Canton mentions another disas-
on the Chartered Bank of India, Australia on again to-day. Mr Bendicht said the ter from the falling of a theatrical mat- and China, Singapore, and dated 1st stores were all right on the 27th April, and thed.
It appears that the members of Jabusty 1874 The signatures of Mr R. I. on the 28th he placed three large chesses the Chinchew Guild wore celebrating the Harper, the Manager, and of Mr Thomas in the store. On the 30th, he went to the Neave, Acting Accountant, are marvellously store and found the staple of the door goue, Natal day of the Tien How Goddess, by like the originals, and indeed the whole and the tins of candied fruit were missing having a theatrical performance for three execution of the forgery is wonderful. Not with the cheeses packed up ready for being days and three nights in front of their one fondead would detect it without carried away. After further evidence the some professional skill and experience in case was again remanded until Monday Club. The number of spectators was very the handling of bank notes. It has thres next. Prisoner was admitted to ball in two great yesterday, so that many got on to the defects; the ink is of darker red than that sureties of $25 each.
of the real note; the paper has no water- stage, This obstructed the view of other mark and is rougher to the feel; and the spectators, and atones were pelted at those name of Britko, Sprague & Co., London, on the stage, causing a great swaying and the manufacturers of the Bank's note paper, which is printed on all real notes, is want- straining, which brought the bamboo edifice ing on the forgery. The note was present- to the ground, presipitating the ocoupantsed, with four other similar forged ones, down a height of some ten feet. At this time over the Bank's counter about noon yester. day, in payment of a draft on Hongkong, it happened to be raining hard, and many and they were detected at onse by the people were taking shelter under the stage, sharp eye and nice feel of the Bank's Inquiries bo when it gave way, those on the platform were at once instituted, which resulted in
cashier, Mr Ho Yiang Moh
fell on the heads of those underneath, doing the finding of another forged note for the longer duration, damage would probably yesterday and five the day before, and the staysail, which led to a pitch by the stern; be finished, we, the undersigned able-
same amount, making five notes for $500 each in all. They were all in the posses sion of a most respectable Chinese houg, which received them in the ordinary course Ma F. S. Huffam, Deputy Registrar of the of business, and active efforts are now being made to trace their origin. A similar Supreme Court, has left the Colony, on six forgery on the Hongkong and Shanghai months' leave of absenous, and in expressing Bank was recently detected in Yokohama,
hope that he will enjoy bis well-earned and the forgers, Europeans, were arrested | $1,055 in Spanish silver coins. The exporta- this be the case, it shows 'neglect somewhere, boards are not a perfect security against Odessa report that, apart from the demo-
son, who examined the body, there were enable her to perform the voyage with it went the wrong. Abdul Hamid's gait and no less than five wounds on the head and safety. It would appear, therefore, that demeanour at the ceremony was exactly that capable of causing doâth. Verdiot of the Owner considered they had done all walking to the scaffold thun a monaroh A TROUBLESOME BERTANT, Oulpable homicide amounting to murder that was possible for the secarity of both walking to his throne; he came tottering
against the prisoner Perroan."
life and property. On the 4th of Nov. into the lull as if the wind were blowing Lee Ayee, amsh to Mra Snelling, was The coals at Tanjong Faggar wharf are ember last she experienced bad weather, him about, and so he stood all the time his charged by her mistress with making a distill burning (April 29th), but a day or two and it was noticed that she had a slight list speech was being read, swaying about like a turbance in her house. The defendant was more will see the fire completely extinto port. On taking off the hatches, it was frail flower on its stem, He clothed his discharged yesterday and was paid her guished. During the whole fortnight that observed that the cargo had not settled face, too, just as his father used on like. wages, less some stoppages. She then has elapsed since the fire began two power down more than from four to sixt inches, occasions, with that expressionless mask made a noise and threatened to summon ful centrifugal pumps have been almost and hence it was concluded that no danger whorein his shyness finds shelter, I presume, the complainant. She made so much noise incessantly at work pumping water to a was apprehended. When at Malta, fifteen but which exhibits him to the utmost dis- that Mrs Selling wat obliged to call the height of some 18 fast, for conveyance in tons of coals were placed in the port and advantage. It makes his pleasant and police. The defendant said all she wanted iron pipes and wooden troughs above the forty-five tong in the starboard bunker, and expressive face almost repulsive in its was her registration ticket. This the com- coal where it has been most needed. In this brought her on an even keel. On the vacuity. Extremo nervousness is the cause plainant promised to return to her, and the addition three tugs and fire-engines have night of the 11th of November, after pas of this metamorphose; but such nervousness care was discharged.
been at work pumping water through hose, sing the Straits of Gibraltar, the wind rose is in itself a calamity, when it deprives a Yet with the coal covering alx or seven to a gale from about W.N.W., and the ship Sovereign on such an occasion of the com-.. sores of ground it has been found impossible was driven against the waves nearly bow mand of word, look, or gesture which might quantity of coal stored on the Company's creased to the force of a hurricano, and between himself and his audience. As a to put the Sre out in a fortnight. The on, for she headed N.W. The wind in have established a current of sympathy premises was 48,000 tons, of which 5 or four men had to be stationed at the wheel,pageant the scene in the hall was striking, 8,000 tons escaped untouched, and a const. At 6. a.m., when the ship was being driven but the soul was chilled out of it by the derable quantity will be salved. About against the clements by full engine power, behaviour of the principal figure. The hali the goal is bolfered to have been the forestaysail broke adrift, and she halberdiers made a great show in their covered with insurance. Already the work pitched heavily by the stern. The sail, searlot uniforms, but their headgear spoils of reconstruction has commenced, and brick very likely by suddenly catching the wind, them and gives them a stagy look. A pillars are rising rapidly on the cleared checked her forward movement, and thus mixture of bluo, black, scarlet, gold, pea- portion of the coal sheds, and corrugated caused her to scend. When her stern went greon, and white requires a bird to carry it iron or zino will replace the old attap roofs, under water the gratings over the rudder-off, and the sturdy forms of the revived which proved so fatally combustive on the head wore smashed, and this impeded the Varangian guards are not light enough for afternoon of 18th April, 1877.
steerage. While the Crew were clearing so delicate a feat; the inverted saucepans of away the wreckage it was discovered that crimson velvet, with their towering foxtail the chain of the steering gear on the plumes of green and white, are offensive starboard side was broken, and that the excrescences out of keeping both in form absin on the port side had got unshackled. and colour with the rest, making the whole The steamer became unmanageable, and, ridiculous. It is Abdul Hamid who created as a consequence fell off in the trough of this corps of gentlemen-at-arms, having the the son and healed over to starboard, and Varangian guard of the Byzantine emperors not to port as before mentioned. The in his eye-the guard which, with their tiller was secured under great difficulties, broad and double-edged battle-axes on their and the ship brought up again to the wind; shoulders, attended the Greek emperor to the but the stanchions to which the gear was temple, the scuate, and the hippodrome. attached gave way, and she took the seas Showy, too, after their own quaint fashion, broadside on as in the first instance. The were. the ulema, the Sheikh-ul-Islam, and huil continued to hool over to starboard the Caziaskers, in their long green gowns, dock. When the upper part of a vessel is broad gold bands round their turbans, and until the water was half-way across the gold-embroidered round the shoulders, with thas presented to the sweep of the waves, the ribbon of the Medjidié across their In our telegraphic summary yesterday, no one can stand on deck, and the boats breasts. Physically the only romarkable (April 30th) there appeared a statement get stove. This occurred to the Genoa,point about this august body-barring its that the French transport Sarthe had got and ended in the drowning of the Master decrepitudo-is the bountiful caprice with on shore on the Gindurah Rocks off Galle and five of the Crew, the rest of the hands which nature has furnished it with noses. Harbour. We learn from the Ceylon having saved themselves by a boat which With bowed heads these greybeards waddled Observer that the M. M. steamers Peiho and expsized, but which they righted. The and tottered to their line in front of the feniam went to her assistance, but the Court of Inquiry came to the conclusion generala of division, of whom be it said that offer was declined, and the Sarthe got off that the forward bulkhead gave way there was not a man that looked like a herself and was able to steam into Galle through the pressure of the 1,800 tons of soldier among them; par contre, there were Harbour. The Sarthe is not an iron steamer, grain behind it when the ship pitched one or two admirals that would have done and that, says the Observer, was a very heavily by the bow, and that the supports eredit to any quarterdeck. Over the other fortunate circumstanes for her, else the would not bear such a strain. bumping on the rock would have hopelessly moves bodily when stowed in bulk, and if a
Grain side of the hall-if we pass over the senators in silence--the quality of the manhood: damaged her, as happened to the Arcturus third of the cargo was in bags that would exhibited was better. The Cabinet Ministara and Orestes. The Sarthe is on her way from make the maize more lively.. If 1,800 tons and civil functionaries showed to advantage. Marseilles to Saigon with 800 troops on weight could be projected against a Edhem, Safvet, Raouf, Djevdet, Carathe- temporary wooden bulkhead by the ship's odory, and Serkis look like gentlemen, not- The heat, drought, and consequent stern being 'raised out of the water, itwithstanding the trying costume of much- official reports and denials, rumours of and on the cargo finding its way into the-Pall Mall Gazette. scarcity of water continue, and, in spite of would account for the partition yielding; begilded coats daubed with stars and garters.” cholera being fatally rife among the natives reserved hold, it would fall to leeward, and are numerona. Here is one we have been give the vessel a strong inclination. Had able to trace and substantiate. We are in-the ship not been pooped by a sea, the formed that in the Malay village on Guthrie's steering gear might have held, and in that land next to Tanjong Pagar the Malays oase the risk would have been lessened. are dying off like files within the last four The primary cause of the ship's loss was, or five days. There were seven deaths in all probability, the blowing out of the have been caused even to the strongest tenant of Parsee Lodge has been obliged to and the damage that followed completed buildings, but fortunately, only a portion of leave, cholera being too close to be pleasant, the chapter of accidents. The lesson to badled men, hereby agree to give a day's the roof of one house fall during the shock. There is little or no water to be got in the be drawn from this catastrophe is, that labor towards commencing this most im The pendulum moved in the direction from village and what there le is exceedingly improvised bulkheads will not withstand portant undertaking, as soon se we know N.E. to S. W.
bad. The deaths are not reported by the the pressure brought upon them by the where to begin." Here follow the names The importation of coins during the se-natives on account of the trouble it would heave of the cargo in a strong sea. If the
of nearly 100 citizena, among whom are cond fortnight of April was, $686 in Spaniah get them into. There are no medicines at hold of a vessel is not full, and kept full,two clergymen and two doctors. gold coins 2,000 in foreign gold coins and the Police Station, we are informed, and if or the grain prevented from rising, wooden
SPECIAL telegrams to the Times from tion nil. The steamer Gloria, from Europe, Chlorodyne has been given by a resident in shifting. We can only repeat what we bilized corps and the corps appointed for the oliday, it may not be out of place to add
has brought a further supply of $50,000 in the neighbourhood and hos saved several have said before, that the Aut of 1876, and defence of Kustondji, the Russian Army of In record of service. With the exception
Spaniah gold coins.
lives. It is furthermore stated that, if the its successor of 1876, however well- the South is 250,000 strong, and possesses A Chinaman has obtained permission wells about and near the village were dug intentioned the promoters may have been, 700 field-guns. All the corps are i Mr C. May, who now stands at the lead
from the Director of the Exchequer for the deeper, a good and plentiful supply of water afford no reliable remedy for the sacrifice perfect war footing. Odessa is stated to be f the list as regards seniority in the service
We have been kindly furnished with re-exportation to Hongkong of $450 in would be found,
of life in grain-laden ships. In 1876 there completely secured ageinst an attack from this Colony, Mr Huffam cau date back from the Assistant Resident at Apjer to
the following telegram dated 19th April Mexican dollars, brought by the Esmeralda. H. M. S. Juno, Captain Wilcox, left for were fourteen ships posted as missing which the sea by about 700 torpedoes which have The register for inscription of vessels to longkong yesterday evening (april 30th) had been loaded with grain, rice, or palm been laid, and a series of fortifications well is entrance further than any other the Consul for the United States of Ame-Covey 35,000 quintales of leaf tobacco to and will be replaced here by 11. M. S. Cha-kernols. Three of them were steamships, planned and admirably armed. The garri- Fovernment servant. He entered the rica. Last night at 11 o'clock tire broke Spain closed on the 3rd May. Only 9,000 rybdis, Captain T. E. Smith, which was one from Memel, and the other two from on of Odessa is about 10,000 strong, and in gat on board the North American three-quintales was allotted to the barque Cosmo stationed here during the greater part of the Black Sea. It would be imprudent, the neighbourhood there are large masses of Colonial service here as 3rd clerk in the masted schooner Wellard G. Patton, J. polite, to be loaded at Iloilo, at 42 reales 1875, and which has since been in China, in the absence of facts, to declare that troops in cantonments. Colonial Secretary's Office in 1855, so that Connor Swanton, from Hongkong to the vellon per quintal. e has had no less than 22 years continuous English Channel and laden with sugar tween the hour of 3 and 10, a band of about The Charybdis is now in Hongkong awaiting were lost in the middle of December, dur On the morning of the 14th April, be- and crow seem to have been very popular, the shifting of their cargoes; but as they principally at Shanghai, where the officers these three large steamers were lost through The fire increased so rapidly that extin- ervice, during which period he has had no gaishing it was impossible, so that the forty desperados on horse-back, and some the troopship Tamar with reliefs, and is to ing the prevalence of bad weather, there is ore than a few weeks leave of absence whole of the crew was soon obliged to on foot, armed with all kinds of arms, at be re-commissioned for the China atation, a presumption that they rolled over and steady and continuous application to duty still floating but will probably soon sink;
abandon the vessel. Hull is mastles and tacked the district of Tayug, Pangasinan..when she will come down here.
Of the two carabiniers in the court house,
went down after they had heeled to one e of any value in governmental eyes or in of the cargo nothing has been salved. one was killed and the other wounded. The from the Pinang Gastle of the 10th inst.swamped by the seas,
We extract the following items of news sido, and that they were, in that position, e eyes of the public, then the Deputy Cause unknown."Batavia Handelsblad, wanted, set fire to the court house, as well ward bound P. & O. steamers, which arriv- to be stowed. Soetion 22 of the Act of The Statute, thieves, after taking away everything they Complaint is made that the last two out- however, does not prescribe how cargo ie egistrar must stand high in public estima 21st April.
The hull of the Wellard G. Patton sunk as to about a dozen houses, the finest laed in Penang on the 17th and 81st March, 1876 merely enacts, that no cargo of which on, Mr Huffam was appointed Judge's last night at 12 o'clock. Trade at present the district.
have repudiated a rule which it was sup- more than one-third consists of grain shall terk in 1856, and Clerk of the Supreme is unusually dull; the high price of rice
posed they were bound to stand by, viz: to be carried on board any British ship unless burt in 1869; he was acting Deputy Re. are the cause of it; a couple of failures
stop six hours of daylight in the barbour it is contained in bags, sacks, or barrels, amongst Chinese, dealers have however strar in 1860, 1861, and 1862; acting been the consequonos; if European traders
before proceeding on to Singapore. For or secured from shifting by boards, CAMPHOR, (Singapore Daily Times.) example, the Lombardy arrived at 4.15 bulkheads, or other means. If, therefore, QUICKSILVER, egistrar from Nov. 1861 to May 1862; go to work with prudence and await the
We are informed that a society, called P.m., on the 31st March; her mails were a cargo of grain is shipped in bags, sacks pointed Registrar of Companies in 1865; Chinese merchants during the coming started by the younger members of the for Singapore closed at & p.to. A reference by the Act of Parliament. Should grain harvest without putting pressure upon the the Mutual Improvement Society, has been delivered only at 5.15 p.m., but the mail or casks. no shifting boards are required
SALTPETRE, d again acted as Registrar from October month, no catastrophe will take place in Eurasian community, the object of which to the Postmaster General, Singapore, for exceed in quantity one-third the cargo of a
Exchange. 75 to April 1877. There can be no doubt the opinion of experts. The small pox is their mutual improvement, and that if a remedy for this grievance has been of no ship, then the Owner, the Master, or the Bank, on demand, at the experience thus gained by Mr requested the inhabitants to place white many of them have already begun to
is prevalent here and the authorities have now numbers about 60 members, and, as avail
Agent, must take measures for preventing Cholera is reported to be raging in the it from shifting. Of course, it must shift
30 days' night, affam would have proved an immense flags before houses where cases of this appreciate the benefits arising from weekly Traus-Kreau District, and making great more or less by the motion of a ship, when Credits,
nonthe' sight, distance to him, as well as the public, had disease sppear."-Ibid.
Osptain Jones of the British ship Lodore, meetings, we hope their number will be havoc among the Malays on both sides of it settles down, if there is space enough Documentary, 6montha'sight,...
the Muda river. Isolated cases have ap-left for such action, but the partitions must Bombay,... been called upon permanently to perform
considerably increased ere long.
The British steamer Columbian has peared in Province Wellesley on the be exceedingly strong to resist the tossing Calcutta, imported from Swatow for the Straita about European and Chinese Estates, and small- about of a vessel in a storm at sea. Boards Shanghai, demand, 1,200 Chinese coolies.
pox was spreading. In Penang itself small that do not prevent cargo from shifting, H. M. S. Tamar with naval reliefs for the pox is said to be very rife, the mortality however skilfully they may be adjusted, Bar Ellver, 17, dwis, B.,
30 days China stations anchored in the roads this among children being laid down on good will not, perhaps, bo hold to be a compliance Mexicans morning (April 27th). The Tamar ra authority at 80 per cent.
with the Statute of such a character as to Gold Leaf, d perts having encountered oppressively bot
The drought in Penang, says the Gurette, exonerate the Shipowner from liability to English Sovereigns, weather during her voyage, during which during the last two mouths has been one of the pensity of 3001, and actions at law for Australian Sovereigns, *** twomen died, one of apoplezy and the other the severest ever experienced, and unless the loss of life and cargo. The question Discount of rheumatism. R. M. 8. Juno will, retain comes soon it is feared the whole fruit should be considered on its liabilities, understand, leave for Hongkong in a fer erop will be lost. The Coocanut, Bugar and Mitchell's Maritime Register. days, and will be succeeded hers by the Taploos plantations were suffering severely Charybdis, which is at present at Hong for want of water. kong.
serious injuries to some, while others barrowly escaped unhurt.
and punished
Tea Straits Nimes furnishes the following extracts from Batavia papers :——
from Liverpool, according to the Java Bode e duties of Registrar: As it is, however, of the 17th April, has reported that bis just possible that his brief holiday vessel had struck upon a rock near the Northwatcher, and that in Gaspar Straits y be the means of bringing into bolder he passed a vessel named the Highlander, of his quiet but effective services. It which circumstance the captain of the latter y be interesting, as showing the manner requested him to report,
which Time is gradually absorbing the
er generations, to note how few of our onial servants can take their Hongkong ord beyond 1800. Mr May (the Nentor,
we have already stated, of our local gnates) entered the service in 1844, so
Police Intelligence, (Before the Hon. C. May.) -
May 8, 1871.
AN UNLUCKY FIND,
Leong Asing, a boatman, was charged he has been a part of Hongkong life with stealing dollar from a Chinese 83 years, or say a generation; Mrupercargo who was superintending the
landing of some rice at the Praya. The fam comes next, in 1855, though he complainant charged the defendant with menced life in the Colony five years stealing it from his bag, but the defendant ciously; and Mr Rozario, interpreter of asserted that he picked it tip among the Supreme Court (a sort of perambulating complainant. Discharged.
rior, and that he had returned it to the
glot) dates back the commencement of career to 1867, which partially explains
(From the Manila Papers) At 1.16 p.m. of the 1st May, a strong shock of earthquake was experienced at Manila, which put the people in an alarmed state. Its movements were ascertained to be oscillation and trepidation. The vio lont shock caused to the buildings is a counted for by the combination of the two different movements; had it been of a
The Straits.
Mr Howick had arrived and taken up Mr Plunket's duties as Superintendent of Police, with Mr Talbot as Assistant.
THE IMPERIAL OTTOMAN PARLIA MENT
THE (NZ) Southern Mercury, of Janu- ary 27, says: The following extraordinary Sir,-Being convinced that if the harbor latter appears in the Taranaki Budget: works are never commenced they will never
Quotations. HONGKONG, May 8, 1877. OPIUM-Now Fatma, cash.... $576
11
2)
Now Benares, carb, 505 Now Malwa, caab, E67
* orodit, 572) Allowance Tools, 8 6.24 Old Malwa, cash, 595 oradit, 600 Allowance Taels,
on &
40 a 80 18,50 a 16.60 59 a 60:
6 & 6:60
*** 3/11
194
9/11
110
prom.
4,98 *** 4.09
Shares. Hongkong Bank, 21 % prem Union Ina. Society of Canton, $780 Chiris Traders' Ins. Co., $3,500 Yangtate Ins. Association, Tia. 736 Chinese Insurance Co., $215
HK Fire Ins. Co., $687)
Yesterday morning (April 27th) a very daring robbery was discovered. It was
A correspondent sends us the following found that the office of Mr M. J. Carapiet
account of the opening of the Ottoman on the land side of Comitterefal Square bad
Parliament Yesterday (March 19) the been entered in the course of the night and an iron safe removed with thirty-nine balls
STOWAGE OF GRAIN CARGOES,
Sultan opened in person the first Turkish China Fire Ins. Co., $148 of opium. Considering, that, in addition
Parliament, and the ceremony was prepared H. W. Dosk Co., 30% dia. The stowage of grain laden ships by with all the pomp that brials little Kiamil EC, M. B.-boat Co., $20 % din. to the regular policemen on the beat, or wooden shifting boards and bulkheads Bay, Grand Master of Ceremonies, could Shanghai Steam Navigation, The. 90 supposed to be there, there are three night received a practical illustration in the muster for the occasion. In fact, the amount Honghong Gan Co., $78 nom. police watchmen at the three banks within foundering at sea of the steamship Genoa. of work be has done the last ten days up Hongkong Hotel Do., 155 per share. ifteen or twenty yards of Bir Carapiei's She was built in 1976 ander special survey, and down the long corridors of the palase Chinese Imperial Lons, £108 office, It does seem a little odd that the classed 100 AI at Lloyd's, was registered has drawn his Excellency sa fine za a grey
Temperatura. ace the unprogressive and crude con
without the noise being heard or any strong and excellent ship. On the voyage I could not help exclaiming, How doth the faken at Mera Faisonar & Co.'s Premises, thieves were able to remote an iron safe 1972 tons gross, and is said to have been a hound, and put such a bloom upon him that on of this department. Sir John Smale
cuspicion arotised.
in which she was lost her cargo consisted little busy Bey improve as he came in Attorney General in 1850) and that
An adjourned in quest was held at the of about 3,200 tons of maize, which made walking delicately before the Sultan (engine witnessed the arrival of Mr Sangster,
A. W. Cotinios, Esq., on body of a Kling feet 10 inches aft, and then leaving a good boots, never making a mistake, notwith- Coroner's office on the 27th instant, by her draw 20 feet 4 inches forward and 21 reversed) on the very points of his shiny of Mr Gerrard, Capt. Thomsett, after
woman named Henny. On the 24th percentage of freeboard. In loading at standing the complication of sword, spurs instant, st 990 a.m. the deceased was Sulica, shifting-boards were supplied, and and a highly polished floor, aggravated by manding the old Princess Charlotte for thres years, became Harbour Master in T OF WORSHIPPING TER roites picking up chips at a house in Killiney the cargo was trimmed up to the beams. the necessity of preserving that peculiar Road, when a Kling man named Perrean As an extra presantion the fore part of the attitude which in the East expresses humility Low Ayes, a hawker, was charged with came up and struck her with a carpenter's hold was divided across by a partition, the and in the Weet stomach ache. If his. digging up and destroyfeg some shrube, ade several times. This was observed by spare thus left empty being 10 feet long Majesty would walk as well forwards as his one of which was a pine, growing at the the poor woman's daughter and two or and 18 feet high The Wreck Com master of ceremonies can backwards, it would Chinese Cemetery at Wong-nei cheong, The three Chinese Carpenters working there, missioner and the Assessors, in their have been worth a king's ransom to him defendant stated that he went to worship They all succeed in arresting the prisoner Official Report, say she was not only a yesterday, for the occasion was one when a the tomb of his wife. He saw shrubs and detained: im till the arrival of the drst rate ship, but admirable equipped, little thing would have turned the conle of service plaimed by others may be growing on the grave, so he tore them polive. From the evidence of De Robert and Bitted with everything decessary to popularity the right way, and I am afreið
; and Me Stewart has been reforming dnsational system overstase the month ecember of that year. But here the
t our Colonial veterans may be sald
ose, although the ifteen or fourteen
HOARDING HOUSE BUNNERS, Chinese boarding-houses, were brought up Lam Atung and two others, runtiers to for having boarded the S, S. Ajax, which arrived here from Singapore this morning, and before the vessel was anthofed. Fined before the Health Officer came on board,
each, or 10 days hard labour.
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