On Tuesday, a telegram was received by the P. and
0. Com- pany, from their agent in Hong-Kong, giving particulars as to the loss of the steamer Bokhara.' The vessel left Shanghai for Hong-Kong on the 8th inst., and on the 10th encountered a furious gale. The sea ran mountains high, repeatedly sweeping the decks, and finally extinguishing the engine- room fires. After this, the ship drifted helplessly towards Sand Island, one of the Pescadores group, and at midnight struck the rocks, and sank immediately,—all the passengers and crew perishing; except two passengers, three European officers, and two of the European and sixteen of the Native crew. In all, 125 persons were drowned. A pathetic incident of the wreck is the loss of the Hong-Kong cricket eleven, who were returning from Shanghai by the Bokhara,' after a series of matches in the latter port. In spite of the fact that Shanghai and Hong-Kong are eight hundred miles apart, there is great rivalry between the two stations in the matter of cricket, and this was by no means the only occasion on which a Hong-Kong team had visited Shanghai. We shall not know the complete story of the wreck for another five weeks ; but it is clear that the ship would have weathered the storm could her fires have been protected. Even when they were put out, the event showed once again that it is the land, not the water, that ships have to dread.
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