CHINA AND JAPAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 829, 11 February 1868, Page 2

CHINA AND JAPAN.

The Hong Kong China Mail of October 15, has full particulars of the damage done in Hong Kong by the great typhoon. Many houses were damaged, a large portion of the sea r wall was washed away, and roofs, shutters, verandahs, and chimneys, suffered considerably. Even trees were smashed like pipe-stems. Following the late typhoon, there came another storm, which, though not so fierce in its fury, was more destructive to property on shore. We subjoin particulars, compiled from various publications of the Daily China Mail. The gale commenced on the evening of September 30th, and reached its utmost fury shortly after noon on the next day. The results have proved even more disastrous on shore than had been anticipated. Nearly the whole of tho sea-wall from Lapraik’s wharf, as far as the 11.K.C. and M. Steamboat pier, had its coping washed away, and the roadway has suffered severely it being in many places cut up. The casualties among the shipping were less than might reasonably have been expected To commence with the latter the U.S. Rattler was driven high and dry on Stonecutters’ Island, and, strange to say, seems, except in her awkward position, to be but slightly damaged. She has lost anchors, cables, etc., etc., as a matter of course, but made no water during the night, despite the rough usage she encountered. A barque, stated to be the Lancaster, was ashore in Kowloon Bay, and the steamer Achilles, and the Dutch barque Tomla were both injured by other vessels coming into collision with them. An immense number of sampans, cargo-boats, and native junks have come to grief. Bodies of Chinese were seen floating past the naval yard at an. early hour next morning, but it is impossible to arrive at any statistics of the loss of native life.