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January 22, 1896.
CANTON NOTES.
[FROM THE “CHUNG NGOI SAN PO."] The 2nd proximo has been appointed for all the officers to close their seals, which are not to be taken out again till 2nd March. All the officers will have one month's New-year holiday and during that period they will pay no atten- tion to public affairs, except in cases of murder, kidnapping, serions robbery, and marriage by force. These four crimes are regarded by the Chinese Government as very serions and next to treason, and the perpetrators are to be decapitated.
'The coffin and the family of the late Pro- vincial Treasurer will be conveyed to Tientsin by a steamer on the 23rd iust. A civil and a inilitary officer have been ordered by the Viceroy to accompany them.
A San-Sz named Au-Ka-Lip. who passed the examination of the third degree lately and has just had conferred upon him the title of Hon-Lam, held a feast in celebration of his success, which was attended by all the local officers and many Sau-Sz. in his house in the village of Mak-ou, near.Chan-Chuen on the 4th just. In front of the house a theatrical per formance took place. Just in the midst of the mirth a hand of about fifty men under the being singers and musicians pretence of
the house got into
then drove azd the guests and the other inmates to a corner and tied them up. They theu hunted out all the valuables to the ruine of eight thousand dollars. At last it became known, and the policemen rusked forward and met the robbers. who had just come out from the robbed house. The robbers fired at the policemen first. Three of the latter were seriensly wounded and one was shot dead. The scoundrels then safely disappeared. None of them were captured,
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The Tartar General drills bis soldiers every day on the parade ground outside the East Gate. He also pays visits to all the police- stations inside the city every night,
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The cable to be shortly laid between Kago- shima and Formosa is expected to arrive at Nagasaki about the 23rd instant, per the steamer Eton.
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For a récord of domestic misfortune the following, which we take from the China Gazette of the 15th January, would be hard to beat- The peculiarly painful case in which a missión. We (Mercury) very much regret to state that ary named Himle lost two of his little children a sad accident occurred at Tientsin on New from smallpox a fortnight ago, after having Year's day, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wood-gone through scarlet fever and diphtheria, has bury, of the American Mission, while skating been accentuated by the mother, whe developed on the river, fell through the ice. The body typhoid while nursing one of the children, now was rescued by some of the French sailors after having contracted smallpox. She Las again being under water for half-an-hour, and could been sent back to the hospital. not be resuscitated.
As one of the indications of the rapid growth of Shanghai the N. C. Daily News mentions that 2.300 calls passed through the Telephone Ex- change on Monday, 13th January. This is the largest number in one day on record, and kept four operators at work from 9 am to whereas formerly one operator could deal with all the calls in one day.
tice, says the Shanghai Mercury. On Friday mor
A sad occurrence has been brought to our no- ning. 10th January, at five minutes to ten as the
The Peking correspondeut of the Mercury, writing on the 27th December. :ays — At last the Tientsin river has closed, so "Here we are again (as the clown says), hoxed up cptil March comes in like a lien." How to keep the Financiers, bar one. have flown, thereby the peace meanwhile is the question! True, averting a sanguinary and terrible civil war Apropos, base rumeur has it that at cre critical period of the philanthropic crisis to assist this effete Empire" blood was very nearly spilled. Islaski! "All's well that ends well.”
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
steamer Wuhu, one of Butterfield & Swire's new boats. was lying alongside the Old Ningpo Wharf, the chief steward, a men by the name of Hugh Graham, threw himself overboard Im. mediate efforts were made to rescue him by EXPORT OF CEA FROM CHINA TO GREAT throwing lifebuoys, but they proved unavailing. and the man sank. Circumstances point to suicide.
Canten and Mano Aurey Foochow
BRITAIN.
1505-06
Jby. 7,39545 459.413 .....11.175,408
From the N. C. Daily News we learn that, in obedience to instructions from the Throne, the Viceroy Chang has sent down to Shanghai two Tautais. Chin-chiang and Hsu Chong-hu, and Shanghai and Hankow 21 111 512 a prefect, Chu Hai-chih, to prepare a complete inventory of the Kiangnan arsenal there and to make suggestious as to more economical management of the works in the future. Work the necessary inventory to be taken, which will was to be stopped on the 15th instant to enable
occupy some time.
40, 79,184
189445
Is 7,431,215
740,767
14,357,218
21,501,990
44,123,758
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED
STATES AND CANADA.
Amoy. Foochow Shanghai
1897-901,
Jl. 11.834,321 6 +66,531 120,029,320
1801-25
Ibs. 16,894,081
4.626,555 25,794,160
46 $3,02
47,316,796
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO
ODESSA.
A chequered career in truth was that of the Queen of Korea at its close. Less than two months ago the unfortunate lady's corpse lay hacked and charred in a well: she was proclaimed a traitress, an agent of evil, a perverter of official morality; her rank was taken from her, and even decent burial was denied to her. To-day, she has the posthumnons titles of “ Guileless, Re- verential: a temple, called Virtue. Accom- plishment," is dedicated to her memory; her tomb is named The Solemn Sepulchre;" and twenty-two officials of the highest rank are en- gaged in composing and writing for biography, | EXTORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED asher eulogy, and her threuody. Japan Mail.
A man who has just come back from California nurved at Cunton last week and stopped One day some likin people got into the inn and seized the man's box, and said that there must be some illicit glass in his box which had not paid the likin tax. They then took the man and his box to a glass shop named Yu-On. After the poor man had been de- tained in the glass shop for about an hour, he saw a military officer passing along and
ouce shouted
him for sistance. The military officer came into the į shop and as the thing was told to him, he opened the man's box, where there were only few pieces of clothing. The man told the military officer that his bag coutained several hundred dollars, a gold armlet, and a diamond ring. The military officer sent all the people lelonging to the glass-shop to the Nam-hoi Magistrate and sealed up the glass shop.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Cattle die has broken out in the vicinity The Englishwn at Kobe have decided to rele. brate 1. eorge's Day by giving a ball. justant
of both Kche and Yokohama.
The sum collected in Shanghai for the Elgar Relief Fund amounts, with 855 collected from the Wuhu coinmunity, to $1,114.44.
According to a communication received by the Japanese Government from the U.S. Minister in Tokyo the post of Naval Attaché in the U.8. Legution in Tokyo has been abolished, and Commander F. M. Barber no longer holds that position.
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Yokohama
At the regular meeting of the Lodge the Etoile du Tonkin. Grand Orient de Franke, held on the ith inst. in the Masonic Temple, Rue Kebe Francis Garnier. Haiphong. Bro. W. C. Jack was installed as Worshipful Master of the Lodge for the ensuing yeur. officers: Ven., Bro. W. C. Jack: First Sen, The following is thị list of
Bro. P. Durupt: Second Sen.. Bro. E. Labour : Orat.. Bro, W. Labord:: Spot.. Hr. E. Bontonet : Gird. Exp. Bie M. Chip. Treas., Bro. R. Flint: Hisp.. Bra. G. Vlaueanos; LG.. Bro. E. Lorimer: Stewird. Bro. G. Bretou.
banquet was held in the Lodge, the usual After the installation the annual
masonic toasts 'ling duly honoured.
ISOLIG ibs. 22,55,223
STATES AND CANADA.
1595-96 Tue. 29.389.013 18,377.248
1894-95
ls.
28078,376 16,235,648
47.766,201
44,314,021
SILK.
Messrs.
SHANGHAI, 16th January,- (From Cromie and Burkill's circular.)—London tele. grams to the 14th instant report the market. quiet, Gold Killing 8/0, Blue Elephant 10,6. Raw Silk. Settlements do not amount to any largo lower grades of Tsatiees and Yellow Silks. The figure. Still some business has been done in the
rise in exchange has, however, put a stop t business. The nature of the advices from the TsatleesPurchases for the week amount t consuming districts continues unsatisfactory.
about 300 bales. Gold Kilings have been booked at Tl. 335. Taysaams.-Coarse Silks have been dealt in to a small extent, but a larger busines would have been done were the Chinese not ask-
small. Yellow Silks.-The deward continues good, particularly for the Asiatic markets, price; show in some instance an advance. Arrivals, as per Custom House Returns from 9th to 15th Are 840 bales of White Silk, 199 January bales of Yellow and 239 bales of Wild Silk, Re-reels and Filatures.-do fresh business to Pongers.1,000 pieces Shantung Pongees 19/194 report. Waste Silk.-No business to report. inches, 1919 yards, 24 z. at Tis. 8.2.
The Fuochor Echo of the 11th inst says:- The Chinese torpedo catcher Fei ying, built by the Vulean Steamship Building Company of Stettin, arrived here on the 11th ult. She was brought out by Captain Hugó Kola chief officer of the Imperial German mail line After docking she made her trial trip on the th inst.ing higher rates, and stock of desirable lots very Besides the captain and crew sent down from Tientsin to take charge of her, she had on board Я commander of the Chinese Navy and the Harbour Master, and the trial was a complete success, as she ran twenty-four miles in the hour without a bitch of any kind. A gun practice took place subsequently to test the strength of her decks, broadsides being fired, and all went satisfactorily. On her return into the river a dinner was given on board. We Owing to the appreciation of copper cash, one naderstand that the Chinese Naval Commander Mexican dollar exchanging for 940 cash, which is was so well pleased that he telegraphed his the lowest point to which silver has fallen at satisfaction to the Vulcan Company the same Shanghai, the Taotai has issued special instruc.evening. Woska uld mention that by the desireing Y. V. C. Chayling at T1, 474. Green Kabing t.ons to the Mixed Court Magistrates to stop the of the Tientsin authorities the whole of the native banks frɔm exporting cash on pain of a resarl's eight beilers were in uso on this trial
trip. heavy fine.
Three Chinese servants of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Tientsin were found dead in their sleeping room in the last week of December, having been asphyxisted by the fumes of the coal used to warm the kang upon which they slept.
Purchases include :--Tsatlees.-Mountain 4 at
Tls. 375 per pical, Gold Kiling at Tls. 335, Ya conlay Seeling at Tls. 335. Hangchow Tatlees. -Luchar at Tia. 350. Thysam.Green Kab-
Gr. Aln:oad Flower at Tls, 322). Yellow Silka- Mienchew at Tls. 2474 to Tls. 200, Meeyang at Ts. 227} to Tis, 230,