the total loss of the China Wo-regret very much to have to report
Steam Navig: The Hwai-yuen is a vessel of 984 ton was commanded by Captain 0. Wilson, Her ollicors wore Mr. Jackson and Mr. Buckley, and the Knginoors, Messrs, A. Hamilton, W. P. Glassford and W. Young. Hor crow consisted of about seventy-three persons all told, and it is known that there were 92 Chinese passengers booked when she left Shanghai at 9.30 a.m, on the 28th December, for Hongkong and Canton; but there are supposed to have been nearly in all, as quite a number engaged their passages on hi Two whole families, consisting of nine persons each, are among the mi Her cargo consisted of rice, and she had on board tronsure to the value of Ils. 38,000, which belonged to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. All went well till the morning of Saturday the 29th instant when the Hwaiyuon struck on a rock and sank almost immediately. Up to the time only five persons belonging to the Chinese crow are known to have been saved. Ihe place where the survivors the vou sel struck does not appear to be correct. They state she was lost on South Yii Shan, which is slightly to the south of Cliusan—a position the vessel could hardly avo been in. It is more probable that she struck ona sunken rock to the north of the Haeshing, which are about 134 miles feom the Ligh There is all the more reason to believe this, seeing that the ywten would be at about that spot at the time the accident happened. It 1s known that there is a sunken rock to the north of the Haeshins about four miles distant, with 48 fathoms of water round it, As the steamer's masts showed about 10 feet abore water after the accident, there is little doubt but that the rock referred to is the scene of the wreck.
Among those reported to be lost are a mumber of the Chivand Tong families, who were returning to Canton for the New Year holidays, and one or two of whom were to be married at the beguning of Chinese New Year, Thoson-in-law and daughter of Me. Chu Vu-cheo are also reported amongst the missing. Me. Chi in-law was the son of General Yang, of Yunnan celebrity, and the principal owner of the Pao Yuan Chiang Hose Building Company.
'A lamp-trimmer gives us the following account of the loss of the ye "Wo left Shanghai on the morning of the 28th December, ut half past nine o'clock, and nothing out of the ordinary run took place on that day; we had no fogs and the weather was clear. Onthefollowingmorning, at about a quarter to five o'clock, Tins low and suddenly felt a violent shock as if the vessel had struck arock, Limmediately rushed on deck, as did the rest of the crew, and found that the engines were going astern, I saw the Captain, the officers and engineers on deck, and I heard the Captain and chief officer give orders to lower the boats. The Captain was in his sleeping clothes, as he had gone to bed after midnight. As soon as the order to lower the boats was given, myaclf twenty others, including 8 pas 2 of the compradore's staff, 2 painters, 2 "small" sailors, 2 cooks and 5 others, got into No, 4 boat and we were lowered into the water, but the boat capsized and out of the 21 souls on board 15 were washed away and drowned. The remaining 6 clung to the bottom of the boat, but the weather was so cold that one of our number, a passenger, was frozen to death, We got very woak, but managed to hold on till we were rescued by some fishermen who put off to help us as eoon as they saw us, that is at daylight usted, how. ever, that we had to be helped ashore. the time of the accident it was blowing hard, but Ido not know in what direc: tion.' We were very kindly treated by the fishermen, and we remained nine days onthoisland. We snvr steamers passing but couldnotsuccedin attracting their attention, We then got the fishermen to take us to Sheipoo, and we arrived there in twenty-four jours, "This was on Thursday. Wo stayed at Sheipoo a short time and left again for Ningpo, where we arrived at 2.30 p.m. on Friday.' The ship struck the rock seven hours after we passed a Lighthouse, but I do not know the name of the Lighthouse, When the vessel struck, she was backed off, but went down bow first. I did not see an of the other boats launched, so I om what became of them and the rest of crow. About ten feot of the moste of el were seen above water, and the island we wore on was to the south of the wreck. At Ningpo we were taken on board the Kiangteen and arrived at Shanghai this morning. During the time we were on the island we saw no bodies washed on shore, nor any wreckage.
The C.M.S.N. Ca. on Saturday posted up a notice to fect that any of relations of the go in the Haean to sent 20 coffins and put recovered bodies in, The Haean and ELMS, Cuwgoa left on Sunday for the scone of the disaster.
Neither of the two compradores of the Hwaiyuen was with the ill-fated ship when she went down.. The chief compradore happened to be detained at Hongkong on private business and hence did not to Shanghai on the Hwaiywen's las hile the second compradore happened of departure, and the carousal, being a deep one, stretched to the small hours of the night. "Who sequence was that he got half seas over, and it was with difficulty that ho could be got to go on board his ship. When he and his companions got to the wharf at Inst, they found that the Huwaiyuen had already left, and so escaped the fate of their comrades, How is this for the " 1.0.G..'s?"
The Haean returned to Shanghai on Tuesday morning from the wrecic of the en, She reports as follows:—" Left Shanghai at 11.10 am. on Sunday and arrived at the wreck at Ga.m. on Monday left again at 10.40 a.m. the same day, and arrived at Shanghai at 1.50 a.m., on Tuesday." The wreck, we believe, was found to be near Sha-ho Islands, which are to the north of the Haeshins and about one mile distant, and lying between Mushroom Island and Cheng Rock, distant from the former one and a half miles and_thr quarters of a mile from the latter. Round the wreck there are eighteen fathoms of water, "I'he conjecture is that the Hwai-ten either struck on Mushroom Island and Wont straight ahead till she sank, or that she struck Cheng Rock and backed off, sinking shortly afterwards. The vessel lies on soft mud and is sink Chinese gunboat had visited the wreck and hoisted a danger flag on the only mast that was visible, The Haean sout boats ashore to make enquiries, but no information was elicited. Messre, Jackson and Weir, and Captains Petersen, Tisdall, and McCaslin in the Haean to the wreck. Unless diving operations are quickly commenced, it is thought that nothing can be done to recover the bodies and treasure, We beiovethat the depth of water where the wreck will be no drawback to the operations of the divers, as successful diving has been performed in America in thirty fathoms of water, while at the wreck of the Jap. on the China coast the diver worked in twenty-two and half fathoms, One of the Customs divers lias been down in twenty-two fathoms. While returning to Shanghai the Haean showed her speed, running, from lightship to lightship, a distance sixteen miles, in fifty minutes, Under the sanction of the Brigadier of Formosa (whose peouline authority lies been touched upon in Chinese Notes), the lumber trade of that {sland (curiously styled FRR) is to be seriously advanced. A company is being formed, but one of the conditions 1s that no foreigners are, ander penalty of the Company forfeiting its charter, to be allowed to tuke aliares CRAPS TOBE]. who chiot loonlity is Of BBR.
The chief sih inspector of Messrs, Russell & Ca., by name 4 fg 35R, lias been petitlontag Li Chung-tang on the subdjeot of silkworm dise Hoe shews that the Chinese export has gone down from 80,000 to 30,000 bales, and that the same thing ocourred in France and Italy witl Pastoure made his discoveries, prompted by the Frenchman Courtoine and the Italian Ganolio, The worst disonse is the "pep. por spot," (FAS or HiFR), which with the afd of a GV0 power misoroscope has been shown to be both infectious and hereditarily contagions, M. Pose toute's remedy is known as the TRUS and the lien is imply another name for France and Italy have now almost regained their former position, and would have quite done so had not the ponsants, especially the Frouch ones, in despair, taken to rooting up the mulberries,—Staly now produces 65,000 bales a your, The senso is incurable, but n onrefuul separa tion of the healthy worms will yet enve Chinn, A loss formidable disease called PIR arises from eating damp leaves: it Tmaniiests itself in the stomach before the worm disgorges silk. It is infections, but curable, A milder disease still, onlied ff. does not transmit itself to the eggs. Li Chung-tang commands. that "Parhla" be notified of his approval.
The expression used by a patriot" of the Han Dynasty involves the assumption that the divi prine cipos of China went to Hades, or else that the Heaven they went to was where the other place is popularly supposed to be.
The Turbet Captain-General K'impucha bu forwards an application from a prior (da lama) belonging to the Banner [Ae BE) named Ishtanpa who wishes to take a number of black Jamas [34 Ah to the temple [44] at Kuubum near Baa,
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