Saturday.morning.
The very remarkable typhoon from which we suffered for three days seems to have started from a point in the Pacific E. of Luzon in about 133° E. Long., making its way straight north-westward towards Ningpo. The centre seems to have arrived somewhere north of the Chusan Ivlands at about 3 a.m. on Friday, and then to have stopped, the persistence of the wind in the north showing that, as reported by the Sicawei Observatory, it was stationary to the eastward of Shanghai during "the whole of Friday. The rainfall here up to 11 pin. on Friday was 3.39 inches, and this so loosened the ground that the wind which reached force 8 did " large amount of damage in the Settlements and the outside roads. The lowest reading of the barometer in the Settlement was 29.10 at 3a.m. on Fridey. A large number of trees and fences have been blown down in the streets and on the outside roads, the French Bund and the Public Garde! having suffered very severely. Both telephone and electric light wires hwe given way in several places; two of the electric light circuits were put out for couple of hours on Thurwlay night, and telephon was so interrupted that the Father in charge of the Meteorolozical Station at Sicawei had to walk in through the storm on Friday morning to the Semaphore Station to gather and impart infor:. Several of the matsheds eu the Public Recreation Ground were blown down, but Little as the German pavilion is called, stood unharmed through 8 proof of the solidity nf German ction in the Far East. At midnight on Thursday the head resident boy the Swimming Bath warned the other boys there to keep awake and on the look-out for squalls, and at 2.30 the whole structure collapsed and is 8 mere heap of bamboo poles and mat The Dutch Consular flagstaff was nodd to its fall in Hongkew, and seve telephone and electric light posts are bei held up by the wires, one on the Sinza Road being particularly dangerous. There have been, as might be expreted, unusually high tides, but the sampans and cargo-boats generally stowed themselves away in safe places before the vale was at its worst. Not n single vessel arrived fr: outside on Friday, nor did any leave Shai hai during the previous twenty-four hours there were several due, hut it was hoped they ind found places of refuge in good time. The Volunteer Parade called for Friday night had, of course, to be pustponed, while a great part of the matshed Drill Hall on the Soochow Creek has been demolished. We have not heard so far that the typhoon has caused any injury to life or Jimb, and trust that this good record will not be broken.
At 11.30 p.m. on Friday the wind was still from the north, and at midnight the Public Garden was submerged, there being nine inches of water on the gravel path abreast of the red lamp at Garden Point.
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