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TEA CLIPPER DAYS.

Hongkong and Shanghai Forty-Five Years Ago.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ed than to be pointed out as a THE PRINCE'S FAREWELL historic curiosity. The ring of TO THE PHILIPPINES, the chanties has gone from place we hear the familiar Ho Shanghai forever, and in its

bo! He-ho!' of the cooliss as they carry huge packages of ocean

Prior to bis departure on the steamship cargo along the many

Dancea with the Ladies of

Manila

The Prince of Wales

left

Empress of Asia, we had 10 wharves that have sprung up 10Manila at 8. 10 p.m. on the 15th. Interesting chat with Captain T. all directions." A. Mitchell, who has been in! the service of the Indo-China

iast, in the Jolo, the private A Reminiscence.

launch of Governor-Genera}} Captain Mitchell's last visit to Wood, to board H. B. M. S. Steam Navigation Company for Hongkong in the days of the tea Renown, which, a few minutes over 30 years (of which 25 years clippers was in 1892, when he was later, got underway for the were in command) and who may a junior officer, and on that re well be termed one of the "old occasion fellow-apprentice of of Penang.

retara voyage to England by way This who had just finished "I am delighted with the way, his apprenticeship and obtained A certificate was offered

China bands."

Old Hongkong.

As we have already recorded,

Captain Mitchell first came to appointment in one of Douglas fellow and enjoyed himself with

is

everyone received the Prince here: ha is • thoroughly ñias)

China in the 70's as an apprenHe took this job and went away General Wood.

Lapraik's steamers, the Thales absolute freedom," said Governor. tice in the well-known tea

with Captain Pocock (who At the Polo club, where the clippers of the Aberdeen White.

will be remembered by old Prince and Star Line. Of Hongkong. 45)

Governor Wood years ago, be told us that it was residents as the Captain who arrived about 6.30, H.R.H. danced A vastly different port to what it murdered in the Namzo diracy repeatedly and had a jolly time. and rose in the service of the Com Ameng those who danced with to-day. Tastead of the harbour being the scene of ocear-pany to command one of their the Prince were Miss Louise liner activity that it now is," he teamers, eventually taking upan Wood, daughter of the Governor- said, it was speckled with the appointment as pilot in Foochow General, Miss Marjorte, daugb graceful hulls and lofty apars of and known to many of his seafarer of the Major-General and those bistoric craft which opened in friends as Captain Thom. frs. Wright, Miss Rubio and up trade between Chins and the He died a year or two ago at bis Mrs. J. U. Rockwell. British Empire and other nations residence at Pagods Anchorage. THE PRINCE'S FAREWELL. To those who can remember i Mitchell said that when he joined farewell message to the Philip Io coccluding his chat Captain The Prince sent the following it was A never-to-be-forgotten | Fight to see these stately craft as the foreshore of Hongkong bore. I am now returning home

the Indo-China Company in 1891, pines: they sailed into or out of harbour under a cloud of canvas to the no resemblance to what it doet from the third long voyage that cheery ring of the chanties from today. Where the Pex: Office I have undertaken since the war, the crews as they have the now stands were the waters of and in the course of each one, I the harbour and one had only to have had the pleasure of setting anchors up or hoisted the beavy:

walk actosa the yards aloft when making sail. An

street from foot on United States territory. Jardine, Matheson's old offices at the conclusion of my visit down the bank and on to an im to Canada in 1919, the President

ocean steamer in shose days was

nearly as much of a curiosity as a full-rigged sailing ship is at the

present time."

provised landing into a sampan. was good' epoogb to invite

other day

BOARD.

a special

me to the United States, and With regard to the island itself CER. INTER-ALLIED TECHNICAL I shall never forget the wel Captain Mitchell said that, in

comegivenmebothin Washington Under the leadership of the and New York, Then during my those days, viewed from the bar. bour there was little or nothing union of velve Chinese public Australian trip, the following in the way of residences to be organizations, about ten thousand year. I paid two delightful visits seen above the Cxine Road level, students, merchants and others to Honolula, called at San Diego whilst the huge buildings now to ade a demonstration in the and passed twice through the be seen along the waterfront were Principal streets of Harbin the Panama Canal. edifices never dreamt of by the

demanding the "And so my third trip, which residents of those times. The cancellation of the Inter-Allied is so nearly at so end, would not same might be said of the Peak Technical Board and the with have beer complete had I been Tramway and big public works, drawal of the Japanese troops unable to keep up the record. I the improvements that had been along the Chinese Eastern Rail consider it therefore made to the Colony since those **y on the ground that there is pleasure that, by the kindness of days being such as could only be no necessity for the existence of the United States Government, thoroughly appreciated by those these institutions. Further, the it has been possible for roe to in- who can compare the past with Chinese Chamber of Commerce clude a visit to the Philippines in

of Harbin bas memorialized the my homeward journey. President of the C.E.R. urging "It is a matter of considerable that in view of the hard financis regret to me that the shortness of said situation of the railway admin my stay has not enabled me to "apply to istration which prevents the ia pay a visit to your bill station at Shanghai, which in the seven-troduction of effective reforms to Baguio, but I need not say how ties was the scene of great ship-restore the line to its former con much I have enjoyed my few pioz activity. Right from thedition, the Allied and Associated days in Msoils, and have appre Soochow Creek up to Tunks-doo Powers, including Czecho-Slov- cisted the welcome extended to three tiers of sailing ships could akis. should be asked by the me on all sides."

the present.

Sailing Ships at Shanghai.

"The same remarks." Captain Mitchell.

be seen moored in the season. Peking Government to pay their

The joner tiers next the English debts to the railway without any

Bund were reserved for the crack further delay. In the transporta- PROVERBIAL WISDOM IS COURT. packets, the middle for those of tion of their military forces and Asked if a dog barked, in a less importance and the one supplies to Siberia through Man- possession Case at Shoreditch | nearest the Poolong side for the churia, the Powers owed the County Court, witness replied: droghera. Too Old Dock, as it is C.ER the huge sum of about "Yes; what's the good of keeping now known, was in use then and twenty million dollars.

a dog and barking yourself?"

was a most important place, too. Little was to be seen on either back of the Whangpo below the Old Dock, and the few residences in the vicinity of what is now Loown as the Ewo Jetty were looked upon as being away out in the country. This jaky was a landing-place even in the late seventies. Almos: abreast of it on the Pootung side, or uear where the New Dock now is, there was & collection of low white buildings bearing the name of the Commissary Stores. Opposite those buildings the sailing stips used to anchor until they had been duly entered and berth allowed to them in the tiera. where one of the tow boats, such as they were, would make fast under the quarter and manoeuvre the vessel into her berth.

The Bubbling Well. "Not only has Shanghai grown and spread down the river in tbe direction of Woosung since those early days, with the result that houses then regarded ALS country resil- Ancês BIO now in the midst of Chineze district, but the river itself has considerably altered. At Black Point to-day can be seen a small white joss-house right on the bank of the river and almost tumbling into it. In the seventies, this same joss-house was away far back from the river, and a line of trees, which, can be seen on the other side! opposite Black Point, but well back from it, at that time stood right on the bank. Going out from the English Settlement away from the river, the Babbling Well was considered a long drivej out into the country. A small bungalow existed then which was known as 'The Bubbling Well Cottage.' kept by an old Scottish lady, where pleasure- seakers could stop and have tea or whatever their inclinations prompted them to take.

Yes, Shanghai looked very different then to what it does to-day with its palatial residences right out into and miles beyond the Bubbl- ing Well, which is now much more likely to be passed unnotic-

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