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been issued urging every possible economy to be studied in these matters, and it rests entirely with the integrity of individual officials. So also does the collection of land and grain taxes, so that correct reports may be made of the land under cultivation. During such a critical state of the country's affairs it is of the umost im- portance to raise funds, and the responsible Boards are directed to give Kang Yi's momorial the widest possible publioty.-Peking and Tien- tein Times.
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S HEALTH.
The N. C. Doily News publishes the following telegram from a native correspondent:-
Peking, 28th August.
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On the 28th instant the Empress Dowager -was suddenly attacked by a fit of vomiting and there were fears that poison had been put in her food. Great consternation prevailed for a time but it was eventually diagnosed by the Imperial Physicians that the nausea arose from natural causes due to the frequent changes of the wea- ther. The Empress Dowager, though recovered. still appears to be week and listless, paying little apparent attention to affairs of State brought to her for decision. There are, however, others who shrewdly suspect that much of this is assumed, in order to keep the rival factions of Prince Ching and Jung La in a state of suspense, and prevent them from coming to blows, until her plans are matured; for an- doubtedly she has another coup d'état which she is silently and secretly preparing to launch upon those who are audacious enough to aim at con- trolling her by means of the very power she herself gave them, and she will once more show herself to the world as the sole mistress of the Empire. The design it is said she has formed is to get Marquis Ito to come to Peking and that he with his and her friend Li Hung-chang, shall act as her deputies in the government of China
DEATH OF THE RUSSIAN CHARGE
D'AFFAIRES IN KOREA,
Shanghai, 20th August. We are courteously informed by the Action Russian Consul-General Mr. N. Laptew, that he has received a telegram from Seoul announc- ing the death there at 7 a.m. yesterday of Mr. P. A. Dmitreysky, Russian Charge d'Affaires in Cores, who was Mr. Laptow's predeossor at the Rusian Consulate- Genral here. M. Dmi. trevsky was a very able offcial and an exceed ingly genial and kind-hearted man aud made many friends while he was here. He went home from here last year on sick leave, and his health was not entirely reestablished when be returned this year, but it was not expected that his illness would so soon have a fatal NC Daily News.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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large city, that starts full-fledged from the brain of one designer and does not grow up anyhow, as so many large cities have done,
We have two plans before us, the former re- presenting Victoria Bay and its surroundings, the latter the future city and harbour of Talien- Wen. The bay itself is landlocked ou three sides, and is only open to the East, and the being undertaken, and in the meantime no land The drainage works and water works are now new foreign city and harbour will be on the will be sold. It is expected that in two years south side of the bay, facing due north, the city time the harbour will be made and the city laid tself being an obtuse-angled triangle with the apex to the north. Provision is made for the will be a great open sile of the land. It is out and ready for building when there | foreign city to the south and south-east as distinctly settled that Talienwan will be or
required, towards the bills, with large reserva-clusively a commercial port, and there will be tions for parks and gardeus; and for the inevit- no naval station there at all. It will be a free able Chinese town on the south-west; the new port to the whole world. We do not doubt for city and port being connected with the trunk a moment that it will fulfil the expectations of a branch line some ten miles long. The only, its establishment in such a liberal and comprs- line through the peninsula to Port Arthur, by the Czar and his advisers, who have undertaken drawback to the new dity is that it will face hensive spirit.-N. C. Daily News... summer and cold in winter. It will be open to north, and it promises accordingly to be hot in easterly and north-easterly winds and sheltered from winds coming from any other point of the compass. The 1884 edition of the China Sea Directory says:—-
"Victoria bay, (so named by Captain Bour- chier, H.M.S. Blond, in 1810) affords good anchorage in 5 to 3 fathoms, mud. In 1860 the chief portion of the British fleet and trans- ports anchored in two lines along its south shore; the remainder over on the eastern shore, off Odiù cove, which is a snug little anchorage with room for four or five ships if they moor.
"This bay is sheltered from all winds, except ing those from E.N.E. to E,S.. An easterly gale would have a clear fetch of 10 miles, but it is not quite evident that one has ever occurred in the spring and summer months. The inhabitants on the north side of the bay stated. that these gales were prevalent, and sent in a heavy sea, while on the south side it was said that they were not known; and the shores certainly showed no evidence of ever having been visited by one. stated that the bay was full of sunken rocks, The same people who but none as yet have been discovered that are not visible at low water. It is more probable that in spring and summer the prevailing winds are south-westerly, southerly, and south-eas terly, occasionally easterly, and certainly if the wind from the latter quarter blows with any force a heavy swell must necessarily set in."
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THE RUSSIAN CONCESSION AT HANKOW AND MESSES. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., PROPERTY,
Shanghai, 28th August. the news arrived ou Saturday morning that the Great satisfaction was folt in Shanghai when
down in the matter of the unceremonious ER- British Government had at last put its foot nexation of British property by Foreign Powers that have obtained essions at Haukow Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. have some property in the new Russian Concession, which they proceeded; as they are obviously perfectly justified in doing, to encloss with a fence, and their men were driven off by Cossacks acting, of course, under the orders of the Russian Consul at Hankow Mr. A. Vahovitch Messrs. British Chargé d'Affaires, with the result Jardine. Matheson & Co. appealed to the that the commander H.M.S. Woodlark was instructed to land an armed party and pre- Matheson & Co.'s workmen on their own vent any interference with Messrs. Jardine, ground. The Cossacks retired. Mr. Pelham Warren, the late_British. Consul at Hankow and now Acting Consul-General here, has been for some eighteen months' trying to draw the attention of our Foreign Office to the high- handedsaction of the Russian Consul at Han--- kow, and Lord Charles Beresford drew atten- front of the new city, to enclose the new har- Commous.
Two breakwaters are to be constructed in tion to it very forcibly in the House of
north, and that on the east side north-north-subjects here with very great pleasure. Pro- bour, the one on the west side running due
These representations have had some effect at last, and this is noted by British east, with an arm at its seaward extremity run- bably Mr. Vahovitch will be disavowed by his ning a little to the northward of north-north- Government. who will explain that he has west. Within and for a little distance outside exceeded his instructions, as was done not long these break-waters, which are about two-and-a- ago in Mr. Pavloff's case. Meanwhile H.M.S. half miles apart, the harbour is to be dredged Esk left this yesterday morning for Hauko to and maintained at thirty feet, and a channel to reinforce the Woodlark.-N. C. Daily News. is to be dredged to and maintained at the same depth from seaward in a north-easterly direc tion. Close into the shore, where the smaller class of vessels will lie, a somewhat less depth will be maintained. On the east side will be piers and godowns for the use of vessels with passengers and general cargo, the railway being cried along the front of the city, between the band and the harbour, to these piers, so that passengers will be able to step direct from the steamer into the train. There will be ample ac- commodation here for steamers to lie alongside the piers in 28 to 30 feet of water, and Shang- hai will have to bestir itself if it is not to be entirely out out by the new Russian port. The western breakwater starts from a small promon- will be a dry dock and a pier for vessels bring. tory which juts out into the sea Here there ing coal, lumber, and other coarse cargoes, a large space between this pier and the western side of the city being reserved for godowns and coal-yards, lumb r-yards, etc., branch lines connecting it with the railway. know that the work as planned the north-east side faces the harbour, and of the triangle which comprises the fill be carried out, the sum of sixteen million pity, nor the asplanade, the north-west side roubles, or about one million and three-quarter faces this promontory, except at its western pounds sterling, having already been appro- end where there is an opening to the bay; and priated for the purpose. We have more than the future extension of the city will be on the once inveighed against the manner in which Russia has become possessed of the peninsula out at right angles, with oblong blocks, the south side. The streets in the new city are laid on which these great works are to be carried out; but there can be no question that the use
streets running a rth-east and south-west and which Russia proposes to make of her acquisi- of which the base of the triangle forms the south-east. In the future extension of the city tion will be for the benefit of all residents in northern boundary, the streets will run north and traders with the Far East, and that very high ability as well as enterprise are shown in is made in the plan for parks, squares, bazaars, and south and east and west. Full provision þer designs.
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TALIENWAN,
The corrected announcement the other day by Reuter that Talienwan would be opened as a free port as soon as the railway is finished was really supererogatory, this being one of the terms of the agreement made between China and Russia for the lease to the latter Power of Port Arthur and Talien'wan. We have now before us the plans of the works that are now about to be undertaken in Victoria Bay and on
shore, to make Talienwan a great commercial port and city, the fitting terminus of the great railway uniting the Far East with Europe. We cannot but admire the thorough ness of the work as planned; it is grand in conception and has been thought out to the minutest detail, and it is satis- factory
UNSÈEMLŸ RELIGIOUS CONTRO- VERSY.
In connection with a recent correspondence in the N. C. Daily News the following appears in Sport and Gossip The discussion has been a painfully scandalous oue, and to have come menced it in a widely read paper reflects oredit on nobody. As leading disputants we have an English Bishop and a high Roman Catholic dignitary, and what they could hope to gain from their vigorous ink-slinging is difficult to see. It has shocked all residents outside missionary circles to have brought home to parties cannot carry on their work without them such a deplorable state of things. If thê
having these public quarrels, and in the end doing more harm than good, their governments will have to intervene and call them back to the treaty ports, where they will be under the con-s Thus, trol of their Consuls.
Lient. Georg, Paley, the popular wicket-keeper All Singapore and Hongkong friends of of the Rifle Brigade cricket team, will be pleased to hear that his name is included, in connection with the pacification of Crete, in the having carried out the administration" with list of officers mentioned in the despatch as seal, industry, tact, and devotion to duty officers who had done good service “in sasisting Lieut. Paley is also mentioned amongst t in the trial of criminal cases between Cretans Commissioner, Temenos.- Mr. Paley's Civil appointment was District
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