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A CHEUNG CHOW CHRONICLE.

[TROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

October 186

There is something of an old-fashioned Sabbath atmosphere about Sunday on the Island. When night falls it is not long before pac after another the lamps are dimmed and the laland is askiep- except the villagers down below and the veadors of bean soup and "other dain- ties, who cry their wares from little boats around the fishing Best anchored in the harbour.

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BIRTHDAY OF CONFUCIUS.

CELEBRATIONS IN HONGKONG.

TESTERDAY'S, REJOICINGS,

Excepting Chinese New Year, perhaps Do celebration is enjoyed so much by the young men and women of the Chinese community of Hongkong as the anniver. Į sary of the birthday of, Confucius. The 2,477th anniversary was made a general festival by many yesterday, October 3rd, or the 27th day of the 8th moon.

But before dawn on Monday morning!

On the eve of the King Sheng Tan, the rain began and the wind suddenly or the birthday of the Holy Confacius, awoke. Then the typhoon pounced upon practically every vernacular school of the us like a tiger, and tremendous wares Colony, held open house" and "the came rolling in, dashing their foam high entertainments do not cease until the next up over the rocks. A tiny fishing boat, night, when & sumptuous feast is pro- which had been anchored all night in the vided. little Southern cove, struggled desperate-

In addition to the illumination of ly to move out before she was crushed school buildings at night and the display against the rocks. A big junk came tear-of British and Chinese national flags by ing along before the wind with a helpless the business houses, the Nam Pak Hong, crew of board-the waves heaved higher the Wing On Kai, and other street com- and higher-aud the wird now and then mittees decorated, their premises with seemed to rush out to meet them and to catch the spray and sweep it up into the air to a wonderful bright.

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MORE TYPHOON

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JUNK SURVIVORS REACH CHEUNG

CHAU.

MANY MEMBERS OF CREWS.

DROWNED.

historic tableaux, and the exhibition of SPECIAL U.S. INVESTIGATOR TO curios and ancient scrolls. Doll shows PHILIPPINES RETURNING and Chinese orchestras added to

· Round about the bungalows the coolies amusements provided for visitors. crept, heads bent to the wind, as they There was a marked absence of the dragged the flower-pots to more' shelter- Kuomintang colour, the red flag with the Fed corners. In one outhouse"a" mother Egomintang insignia of a white sun

hen spread her wings close over a dozen, mounted on blue ground at the upper Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, tho chicks, but when the wind caught the left-hand corner, but every school put out special investigator for the President of door and shook it like a rat until it a five-colour flag of the Chinese Re- the United States, who arrived in More victims of the typhoon of last swung opera wreck of splinters, she public.

Mazila on July 8th, is leaving Manila | week have returned to tell a tale of woe, thought she had had enough of houses i The official celebration of the Confucian to day for Shanghai, according to a distress and disaster. Reports came to made with hands, and she marched out Association took place at the Taiping news item in the Manila Times. He hand yesterday from the police station into the storm, gathered her chicks under Theatre yesterday morning at 10.30 is leaving Mazila - the 11 President at Cheung Chau of survivors" of two her in the open, and faced wind and rain o'clock, one Chinese orchestra and one Jackson, which is due to arrive in Hongjunks who have reached there and made undaunted with her. little brood safe western band rendering appropriate music kong on Wednesday, and will sail from a report their sufferings during the. beneath her wings.

for the occasion. Many student-bodies, here for Shanghai on Thursday after both boys and girls, and their parents, noon.

In one case the wife of the master of including a large number of ladies in Mra. Thompson, Misa Grace Jones, the

a Hongkong junk reported that the junk, European style of dress were present and investigator's private secretary, Mr. which had a crew all told of twenty, in- the audience was exceptionally large, James L. E. Jappe, his executive secrecluding herself and her husbaod, was hundreds. being unable to gain entrance.

tary, and Mr. Russel B. Porter, corre wrecked while sailing off Sai Mei in The officers of the Association, includ. spondent of the Neis Fork Times, will ing many of the leading Chinese mer. chants, were present on the platform to make obeisance before the image of the Great Teacher. All wore Chinese full dress, a black jacket over a silk gown

Towards noon the storm began to abate and we opened doors and crept out to view the devastation. Down the valley where the wind had swept in from the East, trees and shrubs were withered and blackened as if by a prairie fire.} Some trees stood almost leafless here and there a pine top was stripped of its needles as though they had been cut off with a knife. But next to a blackened, withered fame-of-the-forest, you might see a jolly bottled-brash looking as of plain colour. fresh as on a Spring day, utterly uncon- cerned at the past few hours' experiences. But alamandas and bibiscus and Persian lilacs have suffered heavily, and many eucalyptus trees lies snapped in two.

Outside the cove a piece of wreckage bobbed and swayed on the swell of the The morning of Tuesday brought

Leading Chinese firms in the City made some sorry sights. Two junks came the Confucian Birthday a holiday." The creeping past, with their main masts Sincere Company and others decorated chopped down and only a few rags of sail to help them along. A man came their shops for the occasion, and the ashore and reported that he was the sole manager of Wing On gave a dinner to survivor of fourteen and had spent his 400 or marë fokis, eighteen hours in the ses clinging to a

Waves.

spar.

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leave Manila with him.

After staying for a few days in Shang hai, the party will proceed to Yokohama on the us. President McKinley, and from scheduled to arrive in the latter port on there by the as President Jefferson,

November 19th.

President.

There were 14 items on the programme. The tore to the Great Teacher was

Col. Thompson has been in Baguio preceded by the singing of the Chinese collecting and compiling the data he has national anthem, the audience rising, but obtained or conditions in the Philip

orchestra, provided the music. the western band, instead of the Chinese Pines and preparing his report to the

ME Paul Wright, correspondent of the Chicago Daily News with the Thompson mission to the Philippines, sailed last week for China on the President Madison, accompanied by his wife

ANOTHER PIRACY REPORTED.

The Li Garden at Wanchai, the Ming Yuan at North Point, and several Chinese theatres in Hongkong were taken over PASSENGER JUNK WITH VALUABLE by Chinese school pupils for celebration

CARGO VICTIMISED.

typhoon,

Chinese waters. She and her husband lung to a sail, which broke away from the junk, for a considerable time, but her husband eventually lost his hold and was drowned. She continued to cling for washed ashore on a Chinese island and a day to the sail, and was eventually

cared for by a Chinese' there, until the scas abated sufficiently for her to reach Cheung Chau. The remaining eighteen » of the crew she cannot account for. but believes them to be drowned, as they were in the hold of the junk, when last

seen.

In the other case, there was a crew of

3 on board the junk, of which number thirteen are still missing. This junk « was sailing of Lin Tin in Chinese terri- tory, when it capsized. The survivors

as the woman mentioned in the ense were washed ashore on the same island

Chinese, but were unable to report to above. They were cared for by the same

Cheung Chau until this week-end owing to the high seas, running.

For the first time this summer the sea seemed a cruel monster, something to be shunned at least for a time. Not so thought the fishermen. The waves still foamed high against the rocks at dawn purposes. At the concerts given by these the next day, but some little fishing pupils exhibition of Chinese methods of boats were out again at work, and it boring which are now regaining popular-Eaturday night to the effect that another members of the crew, which included was not long before a mahogany-brown Asher lad was up the path with a big ity in all parts of China, and Chinese piracy had been carried out. From the ish for sale, lashing and plunging in dancing had a prominent" place. captivity in the wooden pail upon his

ATEN.

Many street committees in the Chinese business section of the City also held ceremonial worship, after which presents THE GLOBE-TROTTERS AT THE consisting of elices of roast pork with

several pieces of bun were distributed. STAR.

RUSSIAN BALALAIKA. PLAYER 8

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BRILLIANCE.

A SPARKLING SHOW.

OBITUARY.

THE HON. MR. J. E. TESSENSOHN.

of

A report reached Hongkong late on

They think that the thirteen inising...

report it appears that the piracy was some women, may have been picked up, carried out in the early hours of Saturas when last seen they were hanging to day morning in the vicinity of Tai Shekļ barrier, a large passenger junk with a

an evertumed dinghy." number of travellers and valuaole cargo on board being the prey of the pirates.

It is stated that the piracy was carried THE LATE MR. JAMES OXBERRY, out by a large steam launch with one mast and a large funnel,, the bull being painted blue or grey.

When last seen, the launch and the direction of Kongmoon. captured junk were proceeding in the

day We

were informed

"THE FATHER OF BUFFALOEISM *IN FAR EAST."

R.A.O.E. MEMORIAL TO BE

- UNVEILED,

Dick Norton and his Globe-trotters

A report became current that HM.S. opened their season at the Star Theatre After undergoing treatment for some Faulkner had set out in search of the on Saturday night and scored a distinct weeks in the General Hospital, the Hon. junk and the pirate launch, but on en- success. Since leaving Hongkong Mr. Mr. J E. Tessensohn, head of the quiry from the Naval authorities yester- Norton has added to his company M. Eurasian Community Dmitry Dimoff, & Russian balalaika passed away yesterday, states the Straits left for Canton, she was engaged in

Singapore, it was correct that H.M.S. Faulkner had the late Mr. James Oxberry, "The that while A memorial tablet to the memory of player, Mr. Ralp Lynne and Miss Gladys Times of September 27th. He was uni- convoy duties. She was not due to arrive Father of Buffaloeism in the Fur not have Cathic. Each of them is a welcome verzally respected, and his death will at Canton until yesterday morning, and East," who died last year, happened acquisition

With the exception perhaps of Dick of which he was the head. He put in proceed in search of the pirate craft Daddell Street, on the occasion of an mean a particular loss to the community ro instructions had been given her to be unveiled at the RAO.B. Institute; is to if they

Norton himself, whose wit is always much useful work on behalf of his com- or junk. We were informed that the had been original and laughter-evoking, the great mucity as a member of the Kunicipal patrol would naturally keep a look-out

est success was that of the Bussian Commission, and, later, of the Legis for the craft concerned in the ordinary Thursday evening.

"Open Night to be held there next player. An apdience is the judge of anlative Council, when that body was in- artiste, it never tires of one who pleases, creased in size. Quite recently his public could be gathered, no special instructions course of their duties, but, so far as it quickly vents its disapproval if it is activities were officially recognised by the had been issued to any particular British Oxberry, as he was knows to the local The late Mr. Oxberry, or "Bir" James bored. Dimoff pleased his audience, conferment upon him of the Order of the gunboat to take up the search. thrilling every single member. He is British Empire. master of his instrument, the great music

Mr. Tessensohn was born in Malacen of the occurrence, and it cannot be as

The local police have received no report rank in the Order of Knight (and there Buffaloes, he having attained the highest of the masters comes natural to him, he in 1855, and was, therefore, 71 years of certained whether the pirated junk is a is in existence the Sir James. Oxberry follows on from one to the other with no the age when he died. He served in the local vessel or not. No further partieu Lodge," named after him), was prac aid save that of his memory. As he shipping department of Messrs. Boustead lars were available up to last night tically the founder of Buffalocism in the played there was a hush, and as he & Co., Singapore, for about forty years, regarding her passengers, her cargo or finished a storm of applauso broke out having joined them at an early age. He what has actually occurred. It is prob- Far East. He worked hard in the In- The audience were in a mood to listen retired about five years ago, and went able that by now the junk has been taken terest of the Order and was responsible his balalaika all night. Truly, Dimoff is into business on his own account. He into some creek and concealed the cargo for starting it in Hongkong. He also * great artiste.

wal & member of the Volunteer Corps looted and the passengers robbed. Dick Norton was never greater. In in 1874-1875. As a result of his efforts, "The Midnight Train to Alabamy" he the present Eurasian Co of 8.V.O. was kept the audience langhing throughout. forraed ten years ago. He was He is a master comedian.

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Mr. Ralph Lynae and Miss Gladys Cathie were at their best in dancing, and in, a female impersonation the former brought the house down." Miss Billie Conway and Miss Peggy James were as usual well received, as was also Mr. Brooker, whilst Mr. Norris made a fine accompanist..

authorities will receive a further report It is possible that the local Naval member by to-day regarding the incident,

The funeral took place at Bidadari Cemetery last Monday morning and was very largely attended by a representative

SEPTEMBER RAINFALL. gathering. Numerous floral tributes Following is the record in inches of were sent from all sections of the.com- rainfall during September, as registered munity, including wreaths from H. E. at the Botanic Gardens Sir Laurence and Lady Guillemard,

Institute, but, unfortunately, he died, did touch toward promoting the R.A.0.B.

about two months before it was opened. The memorial tablet sets forth in simple terms the fact of the late Mr.

Order, and describes him as The Father. Oxberry's interest and work. for the

of Buffaloeim in the Far East." There is also a miitable inscription on the

The Company added to their success Hon. Mr. Hayes Marriott and Mrs. 9th, .03; 12th, 1.41 18th, 2.07; 14th, 0.1; tablet.

lat, 3rd, 11; 5th, 02; 8th, .03; at last night's entertainment. They are Hayes Marriott thembers of the Exccu- 18th, 1.63; 17th, 22; 20th, 2.17; 1st, 106 appearing again to-night, and to-morrow tire and Legislative Councils, various 24th, 11; 28th, 1.56; 27th, 1.12; 18th, 13ed by a concert, which is being arranged. The unveiling ceremony will be fulfow- night there will be a complete change other leading residents of Singapore 29th, 240 30th, 2.52. of programme.

and business firms, clubs, etc.

by Mr. Jack Greenham

Total: 17.82.