The Ingo arrived here on Monday and Captain Jesselsen has kindly supplied us with the information in his -p-asession relative to the loss of the Idswmo Mar' Ie appears that while the Jnyo wan proceeding eastwards on Wednesday, omvke was seen ahead and wh proached Crichtor Harbour, west of Port Hamilton, she sav " man-of-war enter, come out again, and signal to the Ingo to atop. Captain Jesselsen did and was boarded by tw" officers from the Japanese gunboat Atago, who informed hin that the Idzumo Mars, Ouptain Minamide, had been lost at Entrance Island near the Sylvin group, ai the previous Monday at uiidnight, while on a voyage from Chemulpo eastward, and that fifty. persons had been drowned, including three Japanese offic The survivors, including the explain,, were then on board the Alago.. The oticers gave Captain Jessolson throe telegrams and letter to forward, While the Ingo wus approaching the Sylvia group, plank be-Tonging to % foreign-built, vessel was seen and although Captain Jesselsen wt that time did not know of the loss of the Tizumo Maru, he gave instructions to keep good look-out in ease there might be some vessel recently lost. At 10 a.m. on, Wednesday the Ingo was off Butrance Island, and the captain looked about t cee if he could find any wreckage, but nothing was to be seev. It is probable, therefore, that te ill-fated vessel sunk in deep water after striking the rocks, The Id: umo Murn wax an iron screw: steamer of 67 tons and 70 b.p. She was built. ut: Paisley. by H, M'lntyre wud: Ca, in 1884, and owned by the Nippon Yusen Knisha, NOWES FROM NATIVE PAPERS, Shénpao.
Amostidisastrous fire took place at Niching on the 4th instant, destroying no less that 2,000 residences and rendering as;.many. families destitute and homeless, A nun-ber of lives are also reported to have been lost LO. Kung, Provincial Treasurer of Szechuan, left this city by the Kiangfoo yesterday muming. H.E. is bound to Nanking to see the Viceroy, and will pro: ceed to Szechuan later on.with his family. suburb of ching was briefly reported in The extensive fire which occurred in the
our paper yesterday. Further particulars have now reached us from our, correspon place in question is 20 distant from dent at Yangchow..He writes. that the
chow and was originally a small and ficant town on the bank of the Yangtze. Since the general salt godown of the Wa (AE) district: was moved to Niching, the town began fo: grow and it hiad become a port. of some im The chief.traffic was in salt aid that mountains of that, article are "stored there. The recent fife was' due t4 some people," who. were cooking their monday meal, carelessly allowing some eparké from
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