We still have H.M.S. Flora with us.
Itis said that the special freezing appar tatus that as been put into her, as all the other men-of-war on the sta has been completed, and that she wil leave Hongkong in the middle of the week, after certain trials have been made. The Monmouth will then be the only cruiser that remains, and it will be well into uly before she is out of the dockyard hands. The Bramble is here too, undergoing the same treatment. In about three weeks, however, everything will have been finished, and then all the fleet will have left us, except the Tamar which, like the poor, is always with us. We have had more than our share of the cruisers this spring and summer, bat the men do not come ashore in the hot weather as they do in the autumn and winter.
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