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MONDAY, MAY 28, 1897.
DIRTHS.
At Hongkong, on the 24th Instant, the Wits of J. R. Charm, of a Daughter.
At No. 10, Carter Hoad, Shanghai, on
BLASTING operations on the Onwo were to begin on the *sed instant, The Syren was to be blows up on the same day.
—
THE
THE Chinese Mail (Wah Te Fat Po) has received a telegram from. Canton stuting| that the New Governor, for Cantoo, A. E.
CHINA MAIL.
PLAGUE ON THE 'COPTIC,'
Nagasaki, May 10.
the 20th Instant, Mrs. Mariz Ñoung, di à¦rne Admiralty sult, the owners of the Nor- at Nam Hung, a place in the northern ex-of the Vacuum Oil Compauy in Hongkong, elan ships are not equal to the British in ported that a case of plague had broken out |
Bon.
MARRIAGES.
..
tremity of Kwangtung. He is expected to arrive at Canton in a fortnight.
amount of interest,
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT squadrons, apart altogether from the ques".
THE ALLEGED SPYING CASE AGAINST A COMPANY MANAGER. tion of ofloors and man—and I
ly
The sentoace of three months' imprison- At the Magistracy to-day, before Com. convinced that British seamen are more than On Sunday morning last, upea the arrival ment recasty passed in Bouging on the Hsu Chen Wei, arrived yesterday afternoonmander Hastings, Frank Walker, manager equal to their foreign compears the Rus-at the 8. Cyfle from Hongkong, it was re- Captain and the Destor of the Germa mail steamer Hohenzollern, for trespassing au bourd her. The vessel ufter coming into on the fieldworks at Stonecutters Island, has wse charged with: embezzling, batween the there waters. Neither are the facilities for harbour had turned round and anchored been reduced ta'a fio. That will give much Lat April and 20th May, sums of money coaling and repairing any of the foreign around Megumi Point, where she now Lies, satisfach in Singapore, where the case tsa
It appears that
tbet a ships equal to those of Great Britain, with symptoms resembling bubauio plugue defendants, it was clearly shown, had be
Chinen passenger was ill
à ounaiderable amaz was ill excited
original puntence was excessive. Tho amounting in all to $2,672.76.
Evidence was given by Detective-Surgt, I am not very sure that if Russia bad Ele was immediately rumored to the quaran original intens, and, on it being
mada pulent The padengers and maile will therefore have to he landed and disinfected, while the vessel amateur photographors u
sunaoquinted with the this will have to remain in quarantine until the danger of apprehension that they ran, he
Chipose passengers this trip. 28th instant. She has 33 European and 520
properly reconsidered his deafslou and reduced the
to a mere
mere fine of $100. It is, of course, very necessary that a strict surveillance should be exercised va
THB Kowloon Detachment of the Hong, kong Volunteer Corps held their monthly
The
at the lato George Cheetham, of ❘ tice, at Shanghai on the 19th inst. Capt,ompetition on the 24th insi, for the On Bolt as to the atrast of the defendant in to meet Japan single-handed, Jepan Line station and died at a little after 3 p.m. to the Magistrate that they were simple
wegian steamer Normandie, the owners of At Shanghai, on the 20th May, at H. B.
the British steamer Pekin, en-account of M's Consulate General by Sir Nicholas J. Hansen, Cossul-General, and aftorwords at the collision between thens vemola in the Trinity Cathedral by the Rer. A. C. Hodges, M.A., EDITH MAY, daughter of J. Whangpoo River on the 3rd April lust, was Stewart, of Shanghai, to WILLIAM BAMOR, heard before Sir N. J. Hansen, Chief Jus oldest Focles, near Manchester.
At Bhange, o
on the 20th May, at the London, of the P. and O. steamer Mirzapore Imperial German Consulate General, by was Nautical Assessor. The osidence was Dr. G. Suubel, Coneul-General, and after concluded on the 20th just, wards by Pastor H. Hacks, Theol. Lio., at the Union Church, Caka, third daughter
son of
of A. Kirchner, Esq., Shanghai, to WWE bave to thank an anonymous corres- HELM BOHSAMEIER, Phil. Dr. Interpreter pondent for the interest he takes in our list to the German Consulate-General, Shanghai,
DEATHS.
ał
At 6, Waobang Road, Shanghai, lar¥ Lucy Cantere, infant daughter of William and Elizabeth Martinson; aged 1 year and 6 months,
On May 14, at No. 138, Settlement, Yokohama, A. MINGLED, of Chapelle (Vand) Switzerland, aged 60 yanra.
The publication of this issue commenced at 12.45 p.m.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1896.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Passed Buzz CANAL, (SUPPLIED THROUGH RECTEK),
OUTWARD BOUND :-Ixion, April 17: Pau
Sang, 21; Glenavon, 28; dchilus, Oopack, Nevits, May Benlemond, Fayphemus. Kase Castle, Glamorganshire, Balmoral, Dordogne, Rickmers, 5; Cesar
Woolwich, Pyrrhus, D. Privz
of foreign men-ol-war, but we cannot accept his suggested 'corrections. We have no reason for doubting that our correspondent has corrected the list from many naval books and papers, but as we have verified the particulars for sureolves in the resog. hised official registers we do not care to ec- cept the 'corrections' of an anonymous correspondent. As a matter of fact he is wrong in several detaila, and in some cases, vessels given by him as on the China Station are now elsewhere. The following list of Russian torpedo boats and additional gunboats not shown in our ordinary list may be gives, however, for what it is worth
CRUISERS AND GUNBOATE,
Jermak, Russian const defence ship. 706 tone, 8 guos, 1500 h.p., speed 10.6 Nayezdnik, Rnesian cruíner, 1400, 18, 1790,
knote,
13.6 kacts. Tungus, Russian coset defence ship, 1200, Vastock, Russian ganbcat, 810, 6, 1200,
12.5 knots.
13, 1200, 12,0 knola.
;
The Government has at last made up ite concrete' mind, and has decided to offer the D'Aguilar Lighthouse and appurten- aness for anle. Here is a chance for the Japanese Government, which, according to reports after the war, intends to light the Japanese and Formosa coasto as they have never been lit before.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS
[SUPPLIED TO THE 'Cana Mail']
LONDON, May 22, 1896. RUSSIA-THE APPROACHING
CORONATION.
presented by Mr John Walleca; 7 shots at Queen's Road at nouu on Saturday. Mr would not knesk out the Russians in one 200, 400 and 500 yards. Mr David Gowda Dod for phared for the defendant act. A Yokohama correspondent to | Landon Daily News has been writing won the Cap with a score 76 (21 polate and asked for a remand,
The case was remanded till Friday nox). this subjcot, and is inclined to take up the
Later, added) 97; Mr William Stowart making a
While going to press we learn that the samos position, sat it is interesting to note Rood second with 80 points.
that his estimate of the fighting value of the above is scmewhat incorrect. While ex. persons who employ their camera in dirsa-
umining the
tions where fortifications are within their passengers, the port doctora, Raseian armoured ships is robigher than that Messrs Oteni and Tashiro, had their foous. Hongkong is situated in a peculiarily at your correspondsek * Navy Leaguer. auspicions aroused by the appearance of the favourable manner for the political or mili saya that the Rurik and the Admiral Horan and took bin ashers with them to the tary spy to make his obeervations with a quarantine station where a microsoapio ex. strong appearance of innocent intent. Hong- siloff are the only two ships the Japanesemination revealed the plague bacillus. Be kong is in many places superbly picturesque, nced fear-he alumps the Emperor Nicolai, was at once put under treatment bat expired and the excus of any photographer is, on
the face of it, at a little atter two p.m.-Express.
fairly plausible. Moreover, the forts are not, of course, The state entry of the Czar and Cesting Japan with her limited resources could be THE BRITISH AND RUSSIAN NAVAL of the camera, or, indeed, immediately
Pamit Azota, and Admiral Nakhirnoff. I
very conspt- cuous, and might casily lis within the range beneath it, without the photographers being aware of its proximity. But is always a highly didionit matter to prove. guilty intent, and the authorities in Horg kong hava, therefore, to make no discrimina tions. It is unlucky if, as is the case with the Hohenzollern officers, a photographer, seeking the picturesque, bappone to be near fortifications, but; after alt, the Government must protent itself with severa menguras, The fine of $100 is, porhups, rather a heavy eno, seeing that the defendants aro
aro prao- tically acquitted of any evil designs, but it is smaller thas has been lately inflicted on Americans and Russians who have not been nees-Straits Times, so successful in establishing their guiltless-
THE HOD. Treasurer of the Alice Memorist and Nothomole Hospitals boge to acknow- lodge with thanks the following donations to the fonds of ie Hospitals ;—— Abardeon Paper Mills Co.
H. Fazulally and Co.
H. F. Meyerink
Ohio. T. Kew
S. D. Moonahes
F. Jamaetjoostes
850
10
10
A TELEDRAMA received in Hongkong on Saturday afternoon stating the American schooner John Basel had gono aahors off Montanha Island, about 8 or 10 miles from Macao. A letter was received ister from the captain, F. P. Shepherd, containing confirmatory information and
Bh, Thekia, Tosa Maru, 12; 'Ching. Vaadnik, Russian torpedo destroyer, 500, atsling she was hard and fast on ssud.
wo, Glenfarg, Palawan, Bengise, 16; Glenartney, Melbourne, Monmouthshire, Oolong, Orestes, Dorothea Rickmers, 19; Ernest Simons, Sachsen, Dardanus, Shanghai, Kaisow, 23.
HOMEWARD BOUND:-Merionethshire, Ning.
· 18, 3200, 22.0 knota, Takout, Russian gaubost, 810, 16, 1200,
13.0 kuate.
The un Ling, a Chinese tug boat, went out this morning, with some men, to ber assistance.
into Bosco was a gorgeous pageant.
MATABELELAND,
The Bulawayo Column bas effected a
junction with Rhodes' Colunin at Gwelo.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE TRANSVAAL,
eat up to tackle Rassia, the superior British squadron, with its possibilities of easy re- inforcement, is murely good enough to tackle the Franch and Ituesian ships com bined in the East.
A great deal of attention has been devot. ed during the past week to the unhappy Ur Leyds, in a despatch to Sir Dercules President of the Sanitary Board. I eay Robinson, saka the meaning of the large untrappy,' because I believe that the off- massing of British troops on the frontier.cial who fills that unenviable position is Sir Hercules, in bis reply, regrets that the Transvaal Government chaald attach any credit to any false construction on the mevements of the British and Colonial troops.
more to be pitied than blamed. There is sareely any one in the Colony who is not impressed with the opinion that the Director of Public Works is ons of the most straight
SQUADRONS IN THE FAR EAST,
Shanghai, May 20.
The list which we published ou the 29th of November last of the various foreign pavel equadrons in the Far East made a considerable impression at home, being ro- published in the Times and many other Papers. We showed that the total tonnage under the various dage was as under:
American................18,663 tons British..............£8,408 French.28,060
Geruan....... Russias......
..23,078 ..68,828
11
•
to people at home that the Russian terse It was evidently not a comfortable thought alene should be as large as the British, the much largas, and a serious attempt has been Russies and Froach together being very
this way. The Times of
forward, upright and conscientious offiofaln made of it has an article from an
the Jolony has ever been fortunate enough (Special to the N.-G. Daily News')
to possess, and it is more his misfortune THE DEATH OF COMMANDER
than bia fault that circumstances have ADAIR, K.N.,
pinced him at the bead of the Sanitary Kebe, 10th May. Tieutenant Henry Adair, commanding Board. He is constitutionally unäited for B.M.S. Pgay hot hussulf yesterday the post, and the extraordinary attitude be Gaus, H.P. Tons. Spood Tar members of the Hongkong Volunteer held yesterday afternoon a verdict of tem-has adopted in regard to Mr Danby's com-
morning at Yokohama. At tha inquest
Corps (Fiold Battery) fired off on Saturday | porary insanity was returned. He was plaiats about the whitewash brigade augat afternoon in their match with the Vancou-buried with naval honours at 90.m. to-day to convince the Governor more than any.
BUISTAN SINEBLAN TORPEDO VLOTILLA. Ses going- Ist almen.
chow, March 21; Port Adelaide, 1 Barqu Glenfruín, April 14; Ghazze, Preussen, 21; | Revel Frigga, Maria Teresa, 24; Tantalus, May | Niceaborg 1; Balasie, 12; Agiais, 16.
the Hongkong Corps was deprived of the survions of Sorgt. Lowrie and Corporal
Henderson, of the Dock Detachment, both
4(QF) 1100
81 22.0
1
780
96
4
A
780
96
42,0 12.0
Sortchernia
A
✩
970
R7
By
22.0 22.0
Jautchicha
4
A
97087 22.0
ver Volunteer Artillery. Cofortunately,
220
Mails.
Nerves
4
2200
140
26.0
Tho N. P. &.. Strathlen har sailed from Meji, sad may be expected bera un er about Monday, the 25th inst, The P. M. 8, 8. Co.'s 4.s. City of Peking,
with the American Mail of May b, Ford left Yokohama,
via Nagasaki, on Sa Podorosnik. turday, the 23rd inatent, at daylight, Sinik and may be expected bore on or about Skorpion Friday, the 29th inst.
Norgen
4
* 2200
140
26.0
Bunguri
A
1800 140 24.0
Ussuri
4
1800 140 24.0
Mba
2nd olase.
120 VER
17.0
T
220 20
1
220
23
17.0
1
Sterlaid
220 23
37.0 220 23 17.0 220 23 17.0
of whom had been doing well is practice, and the substitutes did not compensate for the absence of these fine marksme. More
a
NOTES BY THE WAY.
the 9th of
NARROW ESCAPE FROM POISONING
Mome
at
AT SINGAPORE. Shortly before am. this morning (May acasional correspondent written with this 16) Mrs G. S. Murray had a very fortunate. intention, in which there is a perfectly escape from the consequences of the accid- gratuitous sneer at the absurd accounts in ental self-administration of a powerful circulation as
as to the number and strength poison, itcough the prompt use of anti- of the Russian foot in those distant waters.dotos, and the presence of mind of that The writer says:-
lady herself and others concerned. the effant that the comparative naval to take a few drops of
Notwithstanding an official assuranes to Kappears that Mrs Murray had i
had intended strength of this country in the East is ansh on sugar, that boing a useful and popular sucalyptus solution na to give no cause for unsaniases, a doubt remedy for cold. "By misohence, atill appears to prevail on the subject in however, the inadvertently took some quarters, indeed, so much is the posi
containing cyanide of potassiums. thing else of the necessity for having a tact- tion misapprehended that a demand has been well-known as a very deadly and quick. made to intorcars the fores ander the com- acting poison, The quantity taken was |ful, approachable and courteous gentleman as, A little bird whispore to me that there was President of the Sanitary Board, whether ons view has been takas, in all probability
mand of Vice Admiral Buller. This errone-comparatively, only a for drops, very lively stand-up fight just over the that body is to contain an unofficial or official owing to a too ready noceptance of the absurd once directed to the peculiar taste of
but Mra Murray's attention border a few days ago between a gang of majority. Mr Cooper appears to be anable accounts in piroulation as to the number and what she had swallowed. Looking again spium smugglers and a band of Chiness to recognise that he is a servant of the arch of the Russian fleet in thees distant at the bottle the distinctive label was no- waters. The Lussian equadron bae, indeed,cicod, and she at once realised the doa- preventive officers under one of the European public, and as sugh has certain duties to been considerably nagmuated during the last gerous position she was in, and called for unfavourablo weather could not have been staff, Tho smugglers had a large quzulity perform to the public. This is a paint: thas made it is not the equal of our own brother, at osso ran across to D
few months, but even with the additione assistance, Mr F. Dennys, Mra
Bott's secured it the Volunteers had potitioned of the drug, and were successful la escaping which ought to be impressed upon all squadron, the second in importance which horse, whielt was close at hand, audi, nam- the Weather Clark. The light was excood with the larger half of it. Shots were ex Government officials, and net 87 Mr We maintain abroad, fu erder to demon- ing the prison, it was only the work of a The 3rd-class torpedo boats are numerous l'ingly unsteady, variablo se a woman's will, changed between the two parties and a
strate that this Cooper only. It is a mistake to imagine the Chisa station has draws up the follow-dotes, it being a peculiarly fortunate thing
the case, a naval offer on minutu to got together the suitable anti (carried on board waraùipa),
and the wind blew in violent gusts, almost woman wee killed. They must have lively that the Colony exists solely for the benefiting tabulated comparison of the ships of the that De Bott of typhoon force and from orery direction. times of it on the other side of the fence.
which he uses in his It is scarcely to be wondered at, therefore, The connerons of ease of plague in
analytical experimenta. Provided with that the scores were unusually low, with the garrison suggests the query-Have
wanted, assistance was thos the exception of a fino 90 by Lieut. Chap the militery authorities placed certain
Singapore, the authorities took the bull by the horas some time ago, and do not allow the soldiers to go into vertalù quarters of the yoshimara.
The Nord. Lloyd Prins Heinrich, car-Strauss
rying the German mails, with dates from Berlin to the 4th day, loft Co- lombo
Friday,
the 22nd May, and may be
bo expected horo on or about Tuesday, the 2nd June. The Empress of China left Vancouver on
The 0.0
loft
Son
12.0
of the official classes. It has an important two Powers, with their dimensions and prin- | number of waje hae at hand a large position to fill in the Imperial system of Great burbulated statement which follows wha
obarnoterietion,' Britain, it is true, and as cash rinst always be gives the total Russian tonnage at 54,839 afforded to Mr Murray in the shortest dominated to a certain extent by the Home teas, and the British at 34,8 tonitting quickly
sible time, and the antidotes applied
Tho afternoon (11th instant), for
0.6.8. Doric, with mails, &c.,
Francisco for this port, vi Honolulu, Yokohama and Nagasaki, on the 12th inat. The N. P. 4. Tacoma left Victoria for this port on 17th insti, via uanal ports of Call.
Steamers Expected. The N. G. L. e. Hisugno left Singapore for this port on the 21st inst., and is due here on or about the 29th ist. The P. & G...
Masayon left Singapore for this port at 10 p.m. on the 21st fast. The P. & O. s. s. Aden leit Singapore for
this part of 6 a.m. on the 22nd inst, The D. L
D. K. aisamer Gerda, from Ham burg. left
Singapore for this port on 220d inst.,
the
harǝ on or about the 28th inst. The O. 8. S.
Co.'s
The third annual meeting of the Mercantile Bank of Indis, Limited, was held at Win Tuesday, 21st April. We have received chester Hones, Oldi Broad Street, E.C., on
wao, and the Vancouver marksmen must streets in the city out of bounds?" Aanthorities, but in carrying out the detail Russian tonnage is arrived at by emitting quickly did their work, with such good
reprint of the proceedings from the Aloney ba bad indeed if they do not annihilate Market Bevico. The Chairman-Bir Alex-thoir Hongkong competitors. ander Wilson-in the course of his apoosh
in proposing the adoption of the report for VESSELS AT THE Dooks :-At Kowloon the past year, stated this period under re- Teichow, Mascotte, Kutsang, Ingraban,
Albingia, Progress. view could not be characterised as a very brilliant one in the annals of Eastern bauk. ing, and the exchange banks had had to
Cosmopolitan-Exe, Wandering Jow. Aberdeen(none).
ALKON Pianos, Art Models, very ine, $400/400; Cabin Pianos, emali hat exsollent, 8175/220.-W. Robinson & Co.
Cotons Charles Denby, II. S. Minister to
some I do aut care to answer, come I have
which
The is not on this station at all.
left Siogapore on the 23rd for during the yaar, and, by the permission the invigorating air of the Land of the and I believe it could do anything in the on the Board by a leading citizen, that any whereas aho Biagepore at that time, One of tho trataralty tofla a good yaru
a's steamer Achilles, from construction of the Bank had been applied Liverpool, inst, and may be expected here on or about the 291a jost. The P. & 0. 8. Masagon left Bombay for
of
of what is actually municipal government, left the station since our article was pub-ray is practically not a bit the worse of the Nayeshdnik and Rynia, which have effect that, we are glad to hear, Mrs Mur- where Imperial interests are in no wise lished. We must, of course, accept the what appeared for a few minutes a portion
statement that the Tunes list was drawn of imminent peril,--Singapore Free Press. enorificed or endangered, it is the duty of
op by
p by a naval officer on the China otation," My the officials to meet the wishes of the but it is curious that he should inslude the
which does not speak which rival for tone, strength and appearances
to be on Rtaonate and Brinemoad's Planos have no public in every possible way.
Razbornik, Broo I have received several latters this week, let it be granted that Mr Cooper and certainly is out here. Itts curious, too, that W. Robinson & Co.
the station, and exclude the in the British list the Fedbread is included, every official of the Sanitary Board not time to answer, and some are not worth actuated by an honest desire to improve British list is augmented by the inclusion MANY of his old friends will regret to hear face a lower scals of margins than perhaps
aaswering. One indignant correspondent, the maitary condition of the Colony of the Immortal and Narcissus, which that news was received by the American they had ever had to deal with before. In
however, is quite right in calling actention with the least incuavenience to the public, have replaced the Caroitar and Sercury mail of the death of General Kennedy, the liability side of the accounts the only
to the slow progress being made with the with the least expanas to the public, it does lists published in the Times themselves show Shanghai-N.-Q. Daily News.
since our list was compiled. In fact, the formerly Gnited States Consul General d change under capital was that 110 of the B' may be expectaci Į ahares not taken up at the time of the re- Chien, has laft Tientsin for Japan. The Fraya Reclamation in front of the business not necessarily follow that because certain that our statamsat was perfectly accurate at ↑
Colonel is not well and he is accompanied houses in the central portion of the Praya irregularities, or what are supposed to be
the time it was drawn up, except that the Tan genna shipping clerk has always by his wife on his furlough, and we hope Give the P.W.D. time cough, however, irregularities, are brought to the notice of having reached
Eurit had been erroneouely described as keen heat for a joke abù rival'e expense, Rising Sun will soon restore the thin gingering lias of business. But you must serious acusation is being brought againat have a preponderance on over and is that they shipped a lot of goode by a suling was only on the way. That against a local shipping firm. It appeare Minister to a perfect state of health again. --Mercury.
not hurry it. Neither will your attempts the Board, either collectively or individually. ossiderably interior is tosaugait nut in endorsed thus: Piesee do not stow acar squadron is quite tras į but our squadras is chip; and the napeseery document was There was a considerable in Tau alleged berat treaty between Ohine to borry it have any-good effect, At the Mr Daoby, I have not the slightest doubt, is fighting power-to the French and Russian engines or boilers." The rate scurteously
equadrons combined, crease in the fixed deposits. This was not In the House of Commone on the 23rd pondent, and with every one who has to en- and deserves the thanks of the public, by the sorrespondent of the Times --
and Russia still ocupies attention at Home time, I sympathise with my corres setasted by high principles as Mr Cooper,
The following to the summary drawn up aboard this ship.'-Singapore Bree Press.
replied. We don't carry nach things perhaps so satisfactory a feature from the April, Mr Moon asked the Under Secretary dure the unsavoury smells which emanate Chineas and British, for bringing this point of view of presset profit, but the it for Foreign Affairs whether his attention from the partially-reclaimed Foreshore. The
British. Bursing. (95 ships (13 ships Creaze was nevertheless satisfactory as she had been called to the text and terms Frays Redamstion Department, with the
matter to a head. Mr Cooper is in the Numbers...................
T. Yamaro, a Japanese passenger on the 8 torpedo 13 torpedo steamer Ceptie, has been arrested at San ing the bank was rapidly gaining the confid-China, whereby the latter Power, in addi-aid of the Police, has already cleared out have no doubt the Governor will see to it
an alleged treaty between
bosta
boats Francisco for smuggling, having skilfully 61,387 Tonnage:********
64.890
ounsealed in the false bottom of a tab of ease of the investing public. The amount | tion to granting commercial facilities to
Average speed, kuota
provisions, forty-neren dezan Anu silk hand- of unrealised assets of the old bank showed Russia, conferred the right to use ports, se sampana and cargo bonte which nongre that the foolish relation of the Official
Guns
Kerchiefs.-Japan Advertiser. a branch line through Kirin and every likelihood of the foreshore being will be made ineffentual. porn, lay a He was happy to say that the prices at which Manchuria in Talienwan,
fortify Parious
wholly reclaimed in a comparativaly abort thene realisations had been made had fully island near Talienwan, establish depots for space of time. The sooner the better, now equalled the valuations at which they stores, and maintain garrisons in anch stood, and the board were able therefore to positions and whether he could give any information on the subject to the House, repeat their statement that the securities Mr Cintoa: Rumours of such an alleged held against this item were sufficient to treaty have appeared and have been dis
this port on the 8th inst. The P. & D. S. N. Co.'s s. e. Hydaspes left Bombay for this port on 16th iust.
Latest Advicer.
The R. Arratson pear, from Calcutts, left Singapore for this port on the afternoon of the 23rd inst.
́▲ mins-ounos aniga has been soon and eaten
in Tientado. Eating le ballaving!
of the liquidators, allotted to the holders that number of shares in the old bank. That brought the B capital up to £369,812,
of
wrong, so absolutely in the wrong that I
TRE Tantai at Wenshow is reported to be a reduction in the year of pearly £21,000. Tecruit forces, build barracks and oval de- gated in the lagoon, aud there is, I believe1 trio at the last mocking of the Sanitary Board Torpotis tuber
at his old trick of Christian-baiting,
A CLASSIFIED list of the several ranks of the staff of Vistoria Gast and their salaries La published in the Gazette,
*
TH■ Nagamaki Express states that 3,000
sad
K
I
101
14.8
43
410 350 38
No reention is made herein of the fast ships
the
of the Russian Volunteer Flest, which can A EUROPIAN mining export has inspected to immediately converted into ornitors in the silver lord mines at Chang-Ning haien the warm weather has strack the Colony, if thank my aars I am not, I think I would be classed strictly as fighting ships, would the cre will yield from 60 to 65 per cent. of If I were Governor of this Colony, and case of need, and which, while they cannot in the province of Human and reports that we wish to escapa filth epidemics.
take a liveller interest in the details of the draw of the services of some of our fighting lead and 20 tiang of silver to the 100 gaitis ships to watch them, should war break out of ore. The expert ban advised the Anh-
wei merchants controlling I notice that one of your correspondents Colony's affairs, and I would take sa early here.-N.-O. Daily Nést
mina to pur In like manner, our contemporary might chase dressing and smelting machinery and terested in the New Plunkett Gap Road, told confidens sa to what I intended to do with three Empress liners and the other fast moters have decided to do and have already
on that the wam that will be squandered the Sanitary Board.
armed merchant cruisers in Eastern waters, made arrangements for asaroying the mi- which would be as speedily at the service of neral from the mine to the place of traal- the British authorities as the volunteer festment-China Gazetto. would be at the service of K-Ed, 0,36]
rifles arrived at Seoul from Vladivostock Į vover the amount and leave a small surplus cassed in the newspapers, but Her Malart weak, who is evidently very much in- opportunity of lotting the publio into my I have added that no mention is made of the erect the plaul at Haarrow, This the pro
on the 9th inst.
Ms Alford has been asked to fill the seat in the Shanghai Municipal Council vacated by Mr A. P. MacEwen, now in Hongkong.
On Saturday morning, while the steam launch Shun Wa was lying at anchor off Peddar's Wharf, a gust of wind carried of bèr ownings, stausbions and funnel.
to compensate the bank for nursing them.jesty's Government are in possession of no
reliable information on the subject. In the profit and loss account, the expenses of management showed a reduction of £3,000. We have received from the Statistical De The not proft, including the amount partent of the Customs, a copy of the Customs Gazette for January-March, 1886. brought forward, amounted to £24,818. 8. Ild. Tho intorino dividend on the 'A' shares and the farther bus cow proposed would take £9,375; the dividend on a 'B' shares would absorb further £7,390. 58, at
ter which there would be £8,047. 9s. lid, to be carried forward. Me Carupboll had ro-
1890,
over the Qomn's Statue and unveiling eers-
many would go a long way to pay the paitry To Inflated Tyre: No, a bicycle does not The comparative tatai collection of dues cost of the much-desired road. Now, I ob. cat. A horse does. But an ordinary carpet and duties for the quarter was sa under jest to this haphazard way of putting things. tasks will not take all the wind out of a
1886. H'k. Tle. H'k. Tia. The Plunkett Gap Road is, doubtless, a horse," Chinese Treaty Porto...3,767.999 3,700,042 necessity, but that is no reason why a sum
220,507
An amusing incident in the Nikh money- 197,052 of money should not be spent on at proselec Kowloon and Lappa... Luagehow and Mangtze 24,696 31,310
like the unveiling of the statue of Har Ma-ending businese is at present being easted Tofa..........8,062,292 2,928, 409 jesty the Queen, The money for the Queen's the Dabtors' prista. Both the pixiatif It must be remembered, however that,
been rou in
W. Robinson & Co.'s Pianos are guaran- feed for the climate. Pianon Repaired equal to now.
The death rate last month was, for the turned from a visit to the Eastern branches, the total in 1885 includes Tamsui Status and unveiling cerewany is not squas, and the defendant in a reesot auit bave dered by telegraph to return to China at issued by the Custom:The pilot" boat'
pulation, 310, and for the Chinose com
munity 27.3; for the whole community
28.0.
gain this
Netoo
201
THE pilot schooner Nyren, No. 3 was sink by collision with the steamer Flintshire off the Tungeha lightship on the 30th inst Mr Ball, the pilot, was on board at the time, having only just left the Flintshire which ho had piloted out. The crew, with the ex & PaVAT telegram for Peking, from a ception of bue Chinese who was drowned, source in which we have every confidence, were picked up by the Thonan and brought announces that Li Hang-cheng has bass or to Shanghai. The following notion was
once upon the complotion of his business in Syren has aczak in 4 fathoms of water shout British and foreign community, civil po- and reported himself well satisfied with Tainan from which pathing was received dered, and that is the opioios I ut sure
Russia, without reiting any of the Euro-3 miles outside the Fairway Bell Buoy, araything going on there. The Chairman in 1896. Omiting these two ports, the shared by a great many of your readers. I A Straits correspondent sends me a new arranged when he started, he should visit Bell Buoy N.WW, maguete, The pean ospitals or Amerion, which, it was with Gutala bearing B. by W., and the moved, That the report of the directers, revenus in 1895 at the Chinose Treaty think the Government are to be praised and paper daiting giving a description of a box-upon his return journey-China Gezitte
Poris was only Tis. 3,610,488, an that there
tapa of bar costs show above water. Tho with the audited statement of accounts and is really THE Taotni of Shanghai has written a balance-shest to the 31st December luz. 220.000.-N.-C. Dailer of over Tls, not blamed for the hearty co-operation theying exhibition at the Skating Rink at Bing THE tea season is on gud la full swing, Shanghai for more than thirty years.N,- Syren bas been doing duty as a pilot boat at bare shown in the unveiling of the status of pore, at which the marines and sailors of writes the Wenchow correspondent of the C. Daily News. graceful loiter, thanking the officers and presented to this meeting, he and the same The Tehang correspondont of the N-the doar old lady who presides over the Brit BLS. Undaunted took a leading part, Two N.-0. Dady Nous on the 15th May. The men of the U. B. B. Olympic for rescuing are hereby received, approved, and atopt Daily News writes on the 16th Mayah Empire, and for my part 1 say: May martass, Newbold and Willia, had a lively Peines have gone up this year, dus hielly ACCORDING to an edit of the 17th inst.,
Foochi takes up this trip big so many Chinese in the resent disastrous fed, and that a dividend on the "A"shares"There has been a disturbance at a Roman the day be far distent when wo Britishers bout, Newbold being declared the winner, to a greater demand fer, chatofore appro-Shan, Military Governor of Kirio, has
Catholic station twenty miles from Tohang, think so litle of our Sovereign and of Thomas, of the Undaunted, then boxed ciation of, the Washow products. Ex been allowed to resign his post of
wired to the Hepdo yesterday, Ch'ang of the bank at the rate of 6 por asnt. per The place is called Yanhioling and is con ansihing that helps to keep alive our patrio-Corporal Hendley, of the 5th Fusiliare, Porta from Wauchow sonu to be increasing count of illness. This is the Governm annum for the six months ending jurisstation of three magistraties, so each tiet as to grudge the expenditure on Thurs Hoodley was very smart and plucky, and it almost every trip this year to the annoy his pernecssion of Dr Greig for purchasing
sidered a rowdy pleoo. is under the
Renatally the Foscht has that out cargo who sympathleed with the Kirin profea in Governor has been pleased to appoint His rate of 2 par cent. per annum for the year ceremony. There is an educative and wis a game confess, Thomas being the winants of chippers, and the delight of junk-some land fat that city, in susaergiaerage of
dial tries to wash his hands cleen of any Honour Dr Cardington, Chief Justice, to ending 31st December, 1855, as xcom- bis neighbour, flaws in the end the evil-patriotin valite in these publia atatues, and her. The most important event, was a manj larcha and junks, crslo liua in con- which Mr Hosio, tit, sent to serenit be a member of the Governing Body of mooded in the report, be and the game is doors are unmolested. The native con- I am sorry thoto ara not mure of them is wit-round bout between Morgan, of the U. hory has stepped in ; twise she has gone to warnor's resignatina was out by the eequenos growe or late. Now the Wing the attor lately. Apparently the Go Queen's College is plass of the Hon. N. G. hereby declared. Mr J. A. Maltland Verts are reported to have irritated the some way and the result was - KIT
Hongkong.
daunts, and Corporal Woodfield, of the 8th Shanghai full up, and there seemte every strong pressure put on him by the Taungis moonded, and the motion was carried uns
on the minion building." The same
La rup The auto in the above respost. The arept Correspondeat writes Capi. Barton of
Marchants aro Mix Brass Hart (son of Sir Robert Hart, the animously. The retiring Drostora, Moura the Bik has gone to Betitor to attend.
to rau hor off]****** disonwing the British and Russian squadrons Settlements. Maigah had been spesially the line by reducing
Emperor is A. G. of the Chinese Custome) sccompanied B. W. Lunan and Thomss Sedit, Ware re-coaft-martial on the shooting case which in the Fat least, and, on the whole, I am prepared for the organing, but Woodfeld was Parke ogers at her sakon for 82 Instead of traatment of Jurgilera in fibrobl by Mrs Hart, arrived in Hongkong today elected. Mesara Cooper Brothers and Oo, happened here last December
collision at Wuosung.
قیم
Ir in motited in the Gazette that H.E. tho
sember, 1888, and on the "B"abores at the
Mitchell-Innes.
The
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Some of your correspondents. have bear Fusiliers, for the shampionship of the Stralia gruesot of her aud fares, 300e of Chang Sun's resignation by the
man he handled the gun and accidentally inclined to take the side of Savy Leaguer, allcgather out of condition, and at the and shat the waiguan has been on the Eat all A great deal too much fun has been dedo of the third round, Woodfeld, havlug bed Row, While Capt. Barton is away a sub-
hang
was unlucky enough to go ashore last
as autore. Hesently when the Wings Dont of
mads her leat trip, and freights were at
mer
ditors at a remuneration of 100 guiness for the time, bat has now to be tried in Han about foreigu Watanips, on this station, and the wotal of 15, costoked an the sponge.? I had abtine was sirculated bore that a CROTH and Engineers, read "Priodical
by the German mali steamer Karlene from and Mr W. &. Browne wars recolested at Shangbel, Mr Hart has been transferred to
Crop audit. The London office en soosant of El haalth.'
Our Fopalar Piano, handsome, full-toured W. Bonnay Co. have 180 Planga for mironguaranteed 96 $385/986W Hirp en Monthly Payments, also Planes Robinson & Co.
eniterned from Miro chega
in
Heutenant has come up to tako temporary quite convinced that the British The men were matched again for the 20th at up to the old figure. Nas Gas Engine," and be up to date. Ad. Weakly. command of the gunbeath of quedren fe good enough and strong though May, when it was expected that. Woodfeld on again, thigh last week and they are not.
Doard of Trade Exame for Merino EngiDENEN. Heutenant of marines, has gone home.
Perza com- Ses warkly caport in Pratical Bugigear." at no sue has been appulated to his to tackle aty pureble combination, even the would be in better trim to meet his opponent has an old ba aiz visiten mouth practieul Duglacers Bluzeses ceara. instead of three at the Poochi is stillating to Mallee Paper, Pons Ap powhipation of the Harajan and French
proach, Mandhoster
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