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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MARCH
Intimations."
HONGKUNG HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY,
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IN the BOTANIO GARDENS.
TUESDAY, 8 March 17:
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The Prizes will be distributed at 5. P.M.
WEDNESDAY, gib March:
Open 10.30 am, to 3 P.M. Admission jacts,
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+20.11 Children half-price, TBA will be obtainable on the Grounds. By permission of Col. Prior and Officers the Band of the 13th Rajputs will play, on both days from 2.30 10 6 P.M..
• Hongkong, 1st March, 1910,
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THRILLING SCENES ON DODÜED "THIP...
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A thrilling tale of the sea was brought home to London on 17th January by a yonog-English sailor who was one of the 14 survivare from the wreck of the Norwegian barque Haguesund, whleb, after springing a leak in the North Sea, was abandoned in a terrific blizzard on Monday, after adventures reminiscent of one of the most -exciting tales of Stevenson or the entertaining "author of "Lint, ya Landımed!"
The rescued sallor is a Londoner named John Bhort, and to a "Moroing Leader" repre- scutative he told a plais, unvarnished tale of four months' hardship that seems almost Incredible.
With only 18 months' experience of the ser, he sigued on with the Haguesund early last October, 1 e' was the only Englishman on board. The barqua wwe four and Misty years old, and tight enou„h for the summer seas, but a sorry old lady for winter gales at ker vary best.
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The Hagueminds destination was Finland, HONGKONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, trip out the captain (Capt. O. Jeansa) had his where she was to lead up with timber. On the
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the 7th March, the SUPPLY
MONDAY, the March, the and after WATER to the Ridor Main Districts will be capiralled by bringing the "Rider Mains into operatice and that the WATER will be TURNED SE U Round for be chosen, or in loosetion as to the hours of supply to any particular washing covers.
BEDROOM
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A Quantity of full Suites always ready for
property may be obtained on application at the Offices of the Water Authority or Registrar General or at the Tung Wah Hospital. W. CHATHAM,
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Public Works Department,,
Hongkong, 28th February, 1910.
NOTICE.
given that
wife aboard. They were both about sixty, sud on the way home, meeting dirty weather, they| |bath left the skip at Christianlund to spend a merry christmas on dry land; and the captain's 150, a young man of little more than 20,
·look over the charge of the ship.” She was bat- tered hao, and sadly in need of repairs—“with bules lo her you could shove your fist in?"
RUDDERLESS, ..
A day out from Obristiansand a smashing cross-son carried her rudder way, and for many weary hours she tossed about helpless and hopeless, flying siguals of distress. Then, by sheer luck, she rolled into the track of a smail cargo steamer, which towed her into port,
Here the luckless Hagúesund was discover- el to be ipo far' gode to go into dry dock" she had," said Short simply, "her bottom would have dropped out, she was such a rot- ten, measly old carcass."
But they patched her up somehow, fitted in a vew rudder, and after waiting a week forg morib,casterly breeze, "eating her head off,” she weighed anchor for Londod.
The luckless barque was only a day out when a blizzard tearing out of the east
*ruck her with tremendous fury. Heavy sean poured over her, masbing, the rails which held the cargo piled on deck, and washing top of the timber overboard, till the ren won littered with it"fór mítos. The bulwarks were smashed and the ship showed such sigue of settling down that young Jensen strugg ed dowa the bold one alter...oon to sco how things were going there.. ere, indeed,,| was a momentous bogiaping to his first com-
mand. He came up presently with a blanched
face and shouted into the gale that the.
Hagustund was half full of water. She'll ink in an hour," he cried, "Hurry up to leve
ber, my lads!
"Alt hands worn Luzinom oma premagang wika van te
exception of the cook, who was too sick with
fear to do anything but weep and pray as be stumbled fearfully among the clattering crockery. For five dreadful days and nights the crew toiled ipceniantly at the pumpa, with 15 minute.“ breathers." After the second day (318
two of the younger hands crawled across the flooded decks to their banks in the fo'canila' where they lay down atterly miserable and exbausted.
Young Capt Jensen found them there job.
and sou a few breathless seconds too long and missed bis opportunity;
THE OLD BEAMAN'S END,
The Signa's boat was bauled back, hand over band, leaving him dengling there.
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"I'll come back and fetch you," cried young Short. Cling on for a bit longerf Chear up Correctie 15th February 1910, 100 cliper Mex, Snapper Lay Yo
The Haguesund vanished in the mist and the flying spume, and when Short returned on his perilous journey of rescue alone in the that Petersen had been clinging to-bat old trawler's commodious boat, there was the ropa: Carl had dropped into the sea, almost within a hand span of rescue, and was never seen again. Nor was the liated Haguesund Doubtless she sack soon afterwards..
after the needs of the Norwegian sailors, and At Grimsby, the Norwegian Consul·looked yesterday young Short found himself home again, with four months' pay lost, and such a tale to tell that we would imagine bins wafe for ashore billet for the rest of his life. But the glamor of the sea has got its hold upon him., *I'm not born to be drowned," said he. "To morrow I'm going to look for another ship-but "not a Norwegian this time!"
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"SOLIGNUM."
be bauled them out into the merciless dranch of daylight.
Leave us to die in peace," they criad We're done!"
.
-" if you've got to die, die at the pamps like mon," said the capiais, and he lashed them into
ardor once more. With baggard faces and tired
arms, they took their turn again.
The ship kept afloat. The cook, with a lios
lashing him to the galley-post, managed now
and then to dodge the swilling seas and carry. cans of hot coffes and scraps of food to the toilers in the waist of the derelict Haguesund so keeping them alive. But soon that ceased. STEERSKAN SWEPT OVERBOARD.
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was swept overboard with 'the whole tackle, to He was seen for a which he was. lashed. moment in the swirl of a retreating wave, and then he disappeared for ever. All bands crawled aft to succour him, but with such a bea running they could do nothing but stare helplessly into the raging waters,
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No. 39, DES Vœux Road OENTRAL, The only Bhop in Hongkong with this name In the morning, the battered Haguesund was THERE. HIGH-OLASS FORNITURE wallowing with her rail only above water. The of every description can be made to pumps ceased to work, and the crew, blood-arder la any design required. stained, brised, drenched, and weary almost to death, chung on as best they could about the wreckage of the house, waiting with dolled senses for the end. They saw the smoke of a steamer, but it passed them far away and dis. appeared. Surely that was the last strawi
Two hundred miles 'west of Grimsby the Bleach trawler Sigan sighted them, and seeing their distress signali, bore down as pear as it' dare and hove to within shouting distance. PROVIDENT LOAN ANI She dared not come nearer in that bowling gale, "What's amiss?" cried the skipper of the MORTGAGE CO., LD.
trawler.
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"For God's sake, take us off!” replied Short, knee-deep in the green water, "We're sinking fast! He bawled farther details through trumpat made of kis hands. .... ..............
The trawler and the Haguesund both lower. ed their boats, according to an agreed plan. A malicious wave caught the Bagusanude cock- lesbell and flung it across the forecastle, smash- ing it to smithereens,...
But the fisherman of the Signa knew their | business—They paid off their own roomy boat.
on the end of a long line and by marvellous
mancurring steered har, empty along the starboard side of the rolling Haguesund, And one by one the craw of the Norwegian, banging os by their Bogom only, dropped into the bost as it swang by-twelve_men_'and the 'captain The fourteenth, Carl Polersen, a tough old Het samen, and inactive, hung on between sky
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