necessary momentum but the vessel still remain- ed firmly planted. The services of the Samson were next requisitioned and a steel hawser was secured from her to the windlass end forward; several pulls were made without success and finally the wire parted. A powerful jack was then put under the vessel's forefoot but although a heavy lifting strain was brought to bear the cradle refused to move over the greased ways. It appears owing to the heavy ra ns and excep- tionally bigh tides the ground had softened and allowed the port way to settle two inches amid- ships. A remarkable feature about the affair is that at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the ways were examined preliminary to the lannoling they were found to be in excellent order and as the gradient was the same angle as has been set on previou similar launches a hitch of any kind was undreamt of. At 4.20. the tide no longer serving, the attempt was abandoned and the officials of the Dock Com- pany invited their guests co a shed where refreshments were liberally supplied. The U 8. 8 Monocacy being ready for floating Mr. Twentyman ordered the opening of the caisson sluices and the spectators amused themselves for a while watching the flooding of the Company's magnificent dock. I racks were then made for the Samson and the visitors returned to the Bund shortly before five o'clock. For. tunately the weather was superb, exhilarating to a degree, and this made the trip, notwith- standing the disappointment of not seeing the vessel launched, a pleasant and enjoyable excur- sion. The employees at once set about raising the ways and this afternoon a second attempt will be made which will no doubt be successful
23rd September
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
the Samson was pulling carried away one of the ends whipping round the unfortunate gentle. man's right leg caused a severe compound frac- ture. Mr. Jackson was immediately carried to a steam-launch and conveyed to the Nauking Road jetty whence he was carried home.-N. C. Daily News.
THE PLAGUE IN THE NORTH AND SHANGHAI TRANSHIPMENT
TUALE.
The thanks of the entire community are due to M. Rocher. Commissioner of Customs, for
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THE RECENT CHINESE MISSION TO JAPAN.
THE-EMISSARIES IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE
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The N. C. Daily News publishes the follow. ing telegram from its correspondent dated Peking, 26th September:-
The Empress Dowager showed a little temper recently in the Grand Council when asking Prince Ching, the patrou and sponsor of Liu and Ch'ing, the secret emissaries to Tokio, what had become of them and why she had received no personal report from them upon their return to China. Prince Ching was his unremitting and intelligent efforts to keep unable to give a satisfactory reply and so a the plague from getting a foothold in Shanghai. secret decree has been sent Viceroy Lin But it is inevitable in the imposition of the of Naoking to expedite the two envoys' necessary restrictions devised for the general departure from Shanghai for Peking, on pain welfare, thu these measures should occasionally of the Empress Dowager's high displeasure. hit hard individual interests. In such a grave There bas, of late, been a truce between the matter, however, individual interests must go Censors of Prince Ching and Jung Ln's par- under.. A CARA in point has been exercis-ties. The latter seem to be waiting for the two ing the Customs for Some days past but envoys' arrival at Peking before resuming the now disposed of. A China Merchants' strife. Jung Lu stands alone now, with scarce- steamer brought down a large cargo of gout-ly a Mancha of influence on his side, and skius from Newchwang for a well known considers the envoys a powerful weapon of British firm and the Customs authorities very offence against his rival. properly refused to allow them to be landed, well knowing what admirable media of infection such skins were. Of course there were protests and what not by the firm in question. but the Commissioner manfully held out, and we are glad to know that the dangerous cargo has been shipped back to the plague infested port whence it came.
We believe the beancako trade of New. chwang will this year suffer severely from simi- lar suspicions on the part of the Japanese an- thorities as to its pest germ carrying properties the major part of that trade being with Japan.
-China Gazette.
The following editorial note is appended by our contemporary-It is understood here that the Empress Dowager's envoys to Japan, Liu and Ching, would have gone up to Peking to deliver their report some time ago had they been able to perform all that was required of them. Just prior to their journey to Tokio no no less that 27 memorials were presented to the Throne deuonacing them as unfit to represent China in Japan, and this made the two meu hesitate to accept the mission, and they told Prince Ching the reason. The Prince however, instilled courage into them by, saying that, so long as they performed
At half-past two yesterday afternoon the tag Samson left the P. & O. jetty a second time with the party invited by Mr. Arnhold, senior partner of the well-known firm of Arnhold, Karburg & Co., to witness the launching from the Cosmopolitan Dock of JAPAN'S DEMANDS FOR THE AMOY their mission satisfactorily he would “
the Suitai, the first steamer for the Shanghai. Hankow trade under the German flag. Hince the previous attempt everything that could be done to make the launching a success had been accomplished by the builders, Messrs. S. C. Farnham & Co.; the ways were straightened and and hydraulic jacks were substituted for the ordinary screw jacks. At three o'clock the Samson arrived at the Company's yard and all being in readiness the party immediately ascended the platform. The christening was performed by Madame Knappe, the wife of Dr. W. Knappe. Acting Consul-General for Germany. To make the affair doubly sure the Samson took hold of the stout wire hawser which was fast to her and towed, but, unfortunately, the wire, for want of elasticity, again parted; however, a few strokes on the bydraulic ram and vessel almost imperceptibly gained momentum. A moment afterwards Madame Knappe gracefully dashed the suspended bottle of champagne against the vessel's bows and with the following words named her:-
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Fahre hin deine Bahn durch Starm wie Sonnenschein stark und tüchtig. Ehre des Vat- erlands. Segen des Handels. Rahm deutscher Kraft, und deutschen Fleiszcs sei dein Panier.
Ich taufe Dich auf den Namen Sui-tai." The vessel, which is to be a modern type of the Teh-hsing, slid down the ways without a hitch and in a few minutes the Samson had hold of her and towed her to the Company's wharf for completion. The party were then invited by the builders to the refreshment table, where Mr. Twentyman in a few well-chosen words thanked the ladies for their presence and apologised for having made a second journey necessary. He then presented Madame Knappe with a beauti- ful bouquet and proposed over a bumper the success of the Suitai and her worthy owners. Mr. P. Arnhold responded, tendering thanks to the ladies and gentlemen present for assist ing at the launching of the vessel, and concluded by drinking success to Mr. Twentyman and the Old Dock and thanking the former for his kind expressions. The party then boarded the Sam- son and arrived at the Bund shortly after four o'clock.
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RIOT.
The local mandarins have been informed that the Japanese demards on account of the riot at Amoy have been formulated under five head- ings: (1) That the Japanese Settlement at Amoy shall not be less than 50,000 taubo; (2) that the Government shall guarantee to the Japanese the perpetual enjoyment of the Set- tlement and give the necessary protection to it: (3) that the Amoy officials shall heavily punish a dozen or fifteen of the ringleaders of the recent riot as an example to others; (4) that Tls. 5,000 shall be given as indemnity for injuries received by Japanese officials and subjects during the riot and for the expenses incurred in the send- ing of the Japanese crniser Tzukushi to Amoy; and (5) that the Japanese shall hereafter have sole control and power over all property aud land within the new Settlement.-N. C. Daily Neus.
THE EMPEROR KWANG SU AGAIN TO THE FRONT.
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It is stated in reliable quarters in Peking, according to our native correspondant, that, having felt the pulse of the nation and of the majority of the high officials of Chinese des cent, and gathered that any attempt at deposi- tion of H.M. Kwang Su would be met by very determined opposition and precipitate a danger ons civil war, the politic and shrewd Empress Dowager has shown more consideration to the Emperor, giving him more freedom to speak on State affairs with the officials during the usual audiences, and even on several occasions encouraging the Emperor to speak to the Grand Councillors when he seemed inclined to keep the usual silence and indifference scrupulously observed by him ever since the coup d'etal a year ago. This seems, to be confirmed by a tele- gram received here by a local mandariu from Peking congratulating all friends, of the Emperor that, when the Empress Dowager went to the temple of the Most High on the 22nd to pray for rain the Emperor went In connection with the launch yesterday also and kowtowed in the same place and at the afternoon an accident occurred to Mr. J. A. same time with his aunt, thus performing for Jackson, proprieter of the Mercantile and the first time since the end of September 188 Family Hotel. It appears he, with a friend one of the fundamental functions of an Em was standing on the gangway of the half-peror of China namely praying to Heaven on finished vessel alongside, when the wire at which' behalf of his people.-N. C'. Daily News
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guar. antee protection to them were there a hundred memorialists against them." The Prince also promised that, if successful, he would "undertaks to help them to revenge themselves on every one of their enemies, no matter who they might be." These words have now gradually leaked out from Prince Ching's household, censing the two envoys to be almost universally execrated. Unluckly for them their success at Tokio was a doubtful quantity, and, apprehending an unpleasant reception at Peking, they have delayed their journey North from Shanghai, where they have been staying ever since their return from Japan three weeks ago, in the hopes of travelling under the ægis of Mr. Chinda, the Japanese Consul-General here. who chaperoned thein to Tokio. This gentle- man it seems is not ready to go to Peking as yet, while the envoys must now go to Peking nolens volens,
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OUTRAGE ON AN ENGLISHMAN IN SZECHUEN.
LEPT FOR DEAD IN THE FIELDS;
Chungking, 18th September.
On the 6th inst. while Mr. Warburton David- sou, of the Friends' Mission, was on a mission- ary journey in the Yongting-hsien district, 7 days north of this city, he was the victim of a brutal attack which nearly cost him his life. He had gone into a temple in the market town of U-long-tsin where he was preaching and selling books, when the crowd hustled him and beat his native assistant. He then left the temple and went to an ind for refuge, where he was followed by! a hooting crowd who threatened to pull down the house. Two elders of the town then advised him - to leave, as they said they could not protect him, This be did, but being badly pelted with stones and having got beyond the towa, he took to his heels Being unable to find a path he returned to the same town and was met by a hostile crowd of men, women, and children, armed with sticks, and other more dangerous weapons, He was over who set upon and beat him, powered and left for dead in a paddy field, with eyes, mouth, an'i ears full of mud. wound was evidently a sword cut on the back of the head. He managed, on regaining consciousness. to crawl out of the paddy field and get to a boat, but the boatmen would not take him on board, but later a boat was found
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