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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1701, 31 July 1875, Page 2

Latest Chinese News.

By the arrival of the Namoa from Foo Choo, we (Melbourne Age) have files of Hong Kong papers to July 2.

DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON: OVER

100 LIVES LOST,

The following abridged account is from the Daily Press : " The steamer Poyanfe left Hong Kong for Macao on May 31, and had arrived in Bight of Macao when the typhoon commenced in full force. Finding the violence of the wind too strong to turn back, she brought up off the Nine Islands, about six miles from the harbour, and there experienced the full force of the typhoon. The sea rapidly increased, sweeping the decks. A huge sea was breaking over her and she foundered about eleven o'clock that night. There were about 100 passengers on board also the captain, officers, and crew of the Portugese vessel Santa Sancha, sold at Manilla. Captain Carroll, the, chief mate and purser, along with nearly all the passengers have been lost. The chief engineer, Mr Murphy, was saved by clinging to the walking beam, from which he was picked up and was taken on to Macao, where he found the harborcovered with wreckage. THE TYPHOON AT MACAO. The Macao correspondent of the Daily Press writes :—The destruction at sea amongst the native craft is reported to be very great, and the loss of life serious. A Chinese revenue cruiser is ashore, and great numbers of junks and hundreds of sampans are floating about bottom upwards or broken up. On shore the damage done is also extensive, more especially in the inner harbour. At the Praya Grande the chief sufferer from the fury of the typhoon was the Government House. The greater part of it came down with a frightful crash, burying about eleven persons in its ruins. The aide-de-camp of his Excellency the Governor was much injured, and was carried to the Military Hospital of St. Januario. His Excellency the Governor himself had a very narrow escape from being overwhelmed in the falling mass.