THE LATE BAD WEATHER, Advices from Tai-wan Fu, according to the Amoy Gazette, report that a typhoon raged there, with great fury, on Sunday the 29th ultimo. 'The weather had been very wu settled for some days and on Saturday a heavy sea on the bar indicated the approach of a storm, the wind being strong from the southward. 'The barque Ialter Siegfried, halt loaded with sugar for Shanghai, and' two large junks, anchored in the roxdstend, put tosca. On Sunday morning the wind blew in angry gusts from the south east and by noon a heavy gale had commenced. The barometer fell steadily, and after noon the depression became very rapid. The wind shifted to the south and blew with hurricane force, the glass morkin 29.40 at about half past three. After thi the barometer rose again with remarkable rapidity, but the wind continued with great force until about 5 p.m, when it became evident that the strength of the gale had passed. The bund at Anping was almost entirely destroyed. Many native boats were carried by the wind and an extraorry high tide into paddy fields far inland, ome of them can never expect to be floated again... A considerable quantity. of sugar was lost and damaged. The storm was felt with great force at Takow, where ELMS. Merlin and the barque Wandering Minstrel. collided. The barque Nicoya, anchored outside the bar, went to sea before the wind gained typhoon force, There does not appear to have been many lives lost among the native population.
'The Director of the Siccawei Observatory informed us' on Sunday that a typhoon coming from the south had entered the Formosa Cham most likely have reached th above Amoy on Sunday, than inclining to the, west, The Kungioo from Hankow on Sunday reports fresh souther!; Chin for Shanghai. Phe. Seewo had, on 10th instant, fresh S.E. and E. winds with heavy E.S.8. sea. The weather was very threatening when she left Amoy on the 9th. The Foocki from Newchwang -Haean from Tientain experienced a strong southerly gale with heavy sons.
There were indications at. Wodsung: on Sunday evening and on Monday morning of a typhoon ig to the westward, The lowest reading 6f the barometer was 29.60, The Yangtsze arrived here on Monday from Hongkong -and- reports:—Left Hongkong on the 10t stant and had fine Lepernd up i easel for being 29.38, At Chapel Island, ing very hard till Turnabout, when the 6 wind changed suddenly to S: W.,- blo barometer commenced to rise. From thence experienced moderate southeasterly winds and fine weather.
The Government Astronomer reports today, says the China Mail of the 9th, that the barometer has fallen in Manila and has en along the coast, which is due to the i-cyclonic area of the typhoon having left Manila, but still covering the coast. According to a tele; from 'Haiphong the contre of the typhoon passed there on the 8th inst., at 6.30 p.m. (minimum pressure 29.09). From observations' here it appears to have travelled with a velocity of about 20 miles an hour the disturbance: appears to have been of an elongated shape, and to hi extended 500 miles in front of the contre.
The Hongkong papers contain some counts of a typhoon-on the coast. Douglas steamer Thales arrived at Taiwan Fu on the 28th ult., but the weather being threatening, she put back to Nakung har-hour, where she anchored. During the night of the 28th, there were heavy squalla of wind and rain and from 9a.m. to 7'p.m.
29th a typhoon raged. The Ping-on on the voyage from Pakhoi to Hongkong left Hoihow on the 6th and experienced on the 7tli such a heavy gale and sea that the captaiti anchored the steamer under Kou-lock until the following day, On her passage up from 'Tourane, which she left on Saturday night, the 5th, the Saltee experienced a severe typhoon. She had to go outside th laud of Hainan, and was have to from tive o'clock on' Sunday even until about four o'clock She loft Haiphong for Tourane on the Ist. "On the 7th and 8th had typhoon, bar, 28.9; strong N.E. sea; from 5 p.m. wind turned N., N.W., W. and S.W.; at La.m., on the 8th; Bar, rose, typhoon was in 111° 50 long. Greenwich, and 19°10 lat, There was a heavy gale, but scarcely a typhoon, at Taiwan Fu on Sunday, the 30ch June, which does not seem to have done much damage beyond nearly destroying the bund and sweeping some half-dozen large sugar-laden junks two miles up country. ho Merlin, H.M. gunboat, and the Wandering Minstrel got foul during the gale.
'The following is the report of the Fwshun, A. Croad, Master, fom Hongkong:—9th July, 8 p.m., left' Hongkong, bar, 29,80, fine weather; midnight, fine weather, bar. 29.78, wind N.N.E.: 10th July, at 10 a.m., off Breaker Point, wind N E. by E,, frosh; noon, bar. 29.703 1 p.m., eking passed down; 2.40, off the Lamocl \creasing breezes from N.E., bar. 29.70, no ell, sky milky white to the S.E,; 4 p. wind and sea increasing, bar. 20.62 night, strong breezes and much sea, Chapel Island Light N. W.4 miles, bar. 29.58, 11th Tuly,4.40 a.1n,, abreast of Dodd Island, fresh gales with high sea, bar, 20.51, wind NE, Point, said the a. ewo coming up the coast inshore, ast hi 9.50; at 3 p.m., Ockseu S.E. 4 miles, strong gales with high aoa, taking in much water over all; at 4, wind NE. by E. increasing with high sod, slight haze and threatening, bore up for shelter; at 6 p.m:, anchored under Lam Point in LI fathoms water; ab lit, wind blowing in furious gusts from N.E., bar. 20,24; July 12th, at 2 strong N.E. gales with furious gusto ind, bar. 29.21; at 3a.m., bar, 29.215 at 5 a.m, bar. 29,24, wind deoronsing, wetghod up through the Haitan Strai 8a.m., wind S.E, by E, moderate, bar. 29.40." At times the little squalls felt quite warm. 9 a.m., wind increasing from §.E., hauled up for the White Dogs 9.30, wind shifted: to E.S.E.: blowing furious squalls and blinding rain, soa rising and washing heavy sprays 01 bar. 29.22, hauled out to seavvar alowed down the engines; 10a.m., clearing, Rock, kept away for ite Dogs'; 11, blowing in fun from SE., bar. 29.22, high ip labouring' heavily, slowed' down the engines ena kept the ship's ead East 11.30 more moderate, saw the Tungsha Island, steered tip'for Matson; noon, wind S.E., hard. equalls, blinding rain, bar. 29.41; 1.50 p.m., anchored in 8. WY.' Monsoon Bay at the-N.E. of -Matsou, in 6 fathoms. water; 4 p.uh., bar, 29.46, wind S!E;8 p.m!, wind south, bar. 29.50, hard squalls and blinding rain, © Midnight, wind W.,"bar.' 29.54..°July 18th, 4'a.m., wind' South,'bat. 29.50, the appearance of the weather much improved, weighed' and steamed up the coast; 8a.m., wind S, S.W., bar. 29.61; noon, bar. 29.59;2.20, passed through Ballock. Harbour; 4 p.m., 29.59, wind south; 8 p.m., bar. 29.62, wind sout] midnight, "bar. 29,62, pleasant monsoon weather, slight swell from southward. 14th Tuly, 4:30°a.m:; cleared Stoop Island Pass, ind'S.S.W., Bar. 29.57; 9 nm, off Gut: laff, wind'S.S.W., bar, 29,62. Arrived at Shanghai'at 3 p.m, same day.
The Fuyero, Capt. Barfoot, reports having loft Amoy for Shanghai at 2/30 p.m. ai th 10th inst. It was blowing a gale at the time, and threatening to: get worse 5 glide
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