A private letter to a gentleman here gives an amusing account of sume of the episodes which happened at Hongkong during the typhoon there on Sunday and Monday, the Ist and 2nd instant "A typhoon or something very much like one arrived on Sunday night xd on Monday morning was raging in full force, The tram cars could not run and the top terminus car was lashed to the rails. No Dusiness took place all day and na one could come over from Kowloon, The few people who walked up and down from the Penk had a very bad time of it. From the verandah of the Mount Austin Hotel which was protected by the mountain, the writer of the letter and his friends watched the walkers trying to get across the yap neat the tramway. It was one of the funniest sights to see some one coming along in a jaunty kind of way, perhaps awinging a stick about and possibly whistling under the shelter of the hill. The observers knew what was coming, for as the walker got to 8 certain place. he seemed to hesitate n little; then made a rush, and then down ho was blown on hands and knees and crawled to the corner of the wall by the side of the engine house, where he simply hung on for dear life. After that he sidled down by the side of the wall and took refuge in a godown just under Messrs, A. S. Watson and Co,'a new store, It is believed there were at one time about a dozen waif in there; some of them without hats, One of these left the hotel in ® waterproof cape, as it was raining eats and dogs, and when ho got half-way down from' the hotel to the jap the cape blew over his head and very nearly caused him to roll over the cliff. However he hung on to. the iron rail like grim death and then when somewhat recovered went slowly down hand over hand on the rail, Just then an architect came along, got up in storm costume, knickerbockers, Norfolk jacket and cloth cap tied down with a handkerchief, Ho was swinging a stick and gave the hand over hand man a pitying look as he passed. But the observers in the hotel up above knew perfectly well what was coming, for directly the architect got to the bottom of the path the wind caught him,—and the next moment he was lying down holding to the long grass ut' the lace where the chair coolies' matshed had been standing the night before but which was now blown down, and somewhere near the Pokfolum Reservoir, Another fellow and the writer of the letter walked down Inter on and up again in the evening and beyond little wetting they got on pretty well, considering.
Owing to the sheltered position, the damage dove the hotel was very slight. A few tiles blown off, and netting in the tennis lawns blown down. The partitions on the verandahs were also blown down, but Dr. Cantlie's house at the Peak seems to have suffered the moat while other houses in the vicinity also suffered badly, A window at the Pak Hotel, that kad been screwed up with typhoon bars, was blown right inwards frame and all, and chimney stack was also blown down,"
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