From THe "Nortu-Cuta Darty News," or SEPTEMBER 1, 1878
A correspondent from Foochow writ-Jing on August 26, says that the American schooner Spartan arrived at Quangtow on the 24th from the wreck of the German s. Sedan. She brought two boxes of sycee which she had recovered from the wreck, worth about Tls. 8,000. Captain Vincent shipped the sycee to Hongkong in the s. Yesso, on the 25th. On one or two previous occasions, Captain Vincent. has shipped quantities of sycee solved from the Sedan,. to Hongkong, by Douglas vessels from Haitan Straits. I cannot speak positively as to the amount, but am told on reliable authority that the salvors have recovered in all up to about Tls. 28,000 in sycee alone. Captain Vincent cleared again today at the Custom house and intends to sail again tomorrow for Haitan Straits. One of our tea taipans has left for Old England, and two others have taken their departure for Australia, in order to solicit business for next year's tea season, names.
Mr, Hsu himself would, in' the writer's opinion, have been one of the last men to approve of such a "memorial," and his probable wishes should at least ko given consideration. A suitable memorial to perpetuate his memory is now being considered by a group of his friends, and one in which fall who mourn his loss can participate. Let us remember him by that and not by the cheap device of destroying one noble name and substituting another,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.