The names of the crew, as published at the time of the vessel's disappearance, were:—George F. Tune (master), Itichard Shewring (mate), Robert B. Thompson (engineer), John Fraser (donkeyman), John Fully and Hector V. Dinte (ftromendrivers), Robert Nixon (cook and steward), James Laird, Archi M'Neill, Christian Neilson, William Rowe, und William Nugent (able seamen), and Maurice Giese (0 Ginary seaman). There were also fon board as passengers Mr. and Mes. Willett and their five children, who Joined the ship at Normanton. that the cataclysm which engulfed these continents resulted in the acquisition by the earth of its present moon; and finally in an age to come the moon will plunge to our planet involving mankind catastrophe of unprecedented may nitride and horror; all this is part of an arresting theory recently developed by the European Astronomer, Dr. Hans Herlinger of Vienna.
A lurid account of the final smash when the moon comes into contact with the earth is given in the World Magazine "Closer and closer'
it writes, "will approach the bulging head of the lunar monster, now only some 5,000 miles distant, rushing around our globe seven or eight times in a single day, until its ghastly speed causes it to disintegrate entirely, and all its remaining fragments to plung> headlong into the great equatorial ocean. These fragments, bla: meteor-like on account of the speed Axotitee of Hongkong's oldest Government, servants has retired and is due to leave for Home vei shortly, Ie is Senior Inspr. R. McEwen, axs.t, of the Sanitary Board, whose term of Sd yont service in the Colony came to an fend on the 16th instant.
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