Ate was received in Hongkong on the 9th inst. from Singapore briefly stating that the fine new steamer Kildare, Captain Johnson, had been abandoned on the 29th September somewhere in the vicinity of the Paracels, with a loss of four lives. The Kildare left Java for Hongkong on the 17th September with a cargo of sugar for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and there can be very little doubt that she encountered the typhoon which swept down the China Sea with such disastrous effect about the 28th and 29h ulto. It seems probable that the crew, with the exception of those lost, were picked up by a passing steamer and taken on to Singapore.
The unfortunate vessel was owned Messrs. R. M. Hudson & Ca. of Sunderland, and had only been engaged for a few months in the China trade. She was 2,27 tons burthen and classed 100 Ai at Lloyds.
We understand that the Kildare's cargo of me fifty thousand piculs of sugar was ured with two local offices for something over $200,000.—Hongkong Telegraph,
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