October 27, 1900.]
Early on the 19th inst. a Chinaman was found lying down in Nullah Lane with a severe cut on his head. It is supposed that he was endeavouring to get into a house close by and fell.
CHINA ÖVERLAND TRADE REPORT
MISCELLANEOUS.•
A recent Army Orden, says an Indian tele. gram, makes it plain that a soldier when taken prisoner of war forfeits pay only when proved before a court of enquiry to have been to blame in the matter.
The October number of the Hongkong Church Missionary Association's From Month to Month reports that, owing to the unsettled state of Canton, the Training School for Native
The Kobe Cricket Week commenced last Agents has been removed temporarily to Hong-Monday with the match Kobe v. Yokohama. kong. The students are allowed by the Bishop Yokohama went in first and made 125, to which the use of the Chapel and one of the Class Kobe replied with 111. Yokohama closed their Rooms at St. Paul's College.
second innings at 175 for nine wickets. Kobe made 98 for three wickets, and the match was left drawn.
Otto Scoalberg pleaded guilty before Mr. Hazeland on the 20th inst. at the Magistracy of being drank and incapable in the Queen's Road
It is reported that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, for the futher extension of its business, has de-
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The Bishop Macao, inspecting the Portug 'gapore and Malsoca, se Goncales and De Souza, was anong gers by the French mail steamer Tonkin, on his way to Macao.
Latest information from Newchwang is that there are plenty of beans and produce up coun- try, but owing to the numerous bands brigands Toving about, the boatmen are afraid to leave the villages without armed escorts, which are not allowed by the authorities.
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Mr. L. K. Fraser, who went to Bangkok from Burmah some time since, died rather suddenly on the 5th inst. He had been in Bangkok for
early that morning. 'Fined $2, or eight days. cided to construct six more ocean steamers, each at least twelve months and had been in hospital Sergeant MeSwayed arrested another " drank" this time a Sikh-for "being under the in- fluence" in Lyndhurst Terrace on Friday. He received the same punishment.
In consequence of pressure of business in Mr. Hazeland's Court, Mr. Hallifax heard a number of sanitary prosecutions, and punished the offen- ders who were prosecuted by the Sanitary Board's Inspector (r. Brott). For various breaches of the Ordinance referring to cock lofts eleven persons were fined $10 each, and four other property-owners were each mulcted in a similar amount for neglecting to provide backyards to their premises.
having a tonnage of 6,000. It is not yet known whether these steamers will be constructed at home or abroad, but it is conjectured that three or four of them will be ordered from England.
Sanitary inspection was enforced at Nagasaki from the 9th inst. against vessels arriving there from Chinese ports, with animals, hides, skins, or bones on board, or any other article likely to assist in spreading cattle disease. No such cargo as mentioned above is allowed to be dis- charged without being inspected by the sanitary officials.
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suffering from chronic dysentery. He was how- ever at the British Legation a few hours before his death, so that the end came quite unex pectedly. Mr. Fraser once held a good posi- tion in Burmah.
Le Yacht states that the Chinese t.b.d. Hai- tsing, which fell to the share of Taku, has been renamed Takou. built by Schichau, of Elbing, in 1898. Her She was length is 1934ft.; beam, 21ft.; displacement 250 tons; engines, Schichau type, 6,000-h.p. Herspeed
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her trials with 25 tons of coal in her bunkers was 35-2 knots, and with a full load.336 knote, or 30 to 31 knots with natural draught, and a supply of coal and water sufficient for a ran of 5,000 miles. Admiral Courrejolles has put her in charge of two officers and 32 mén.
Further details are now to hand of the robb.
The Railway Conference which has been held Lo. Sum, an attendant at the Wellington at Simla met for the last time on Monday, the Barracks,, was brought up in custody charged 1st inst., when proposals from Messrs. Thomas by Corporal Tuohy, RA.M.C., with the theft Cook and Sons were considered, whereby this of a bottle of kerosene oil from the Medical firm would be enabled to issue tickets for circu- Officer's Room on the previous evening Helar tours in India over one thousand miles long, pleaded not guilty, and the Corporal said that without restriction, at ten per cent reduction, ing of the Chinese lorcha off Gutzlaff, of which when arrested the prisoner stated he was Capt. half of which to go to the passenger. It was it. Mr. Hallifax sentenced the accused to 14 up a detailed list of tours for further considera-ing, the 12th inst., the Chinese lorcha Chin Pao Bewley's "boy," although he subsequently denied resolved to ask Messrs. Cook and Sons to draw we have already had news by telegraph. The N. C. Daily News learns that on Friday morn days with hard labour.
Nine men employed at the Naval Yard ap-quoted in the L. and C. Express, are being general cargo, was boarded by pirates off
.Arrangements, says a Moscow correspondent An, bound from Hankow to Ningpo with peared before Mr. Hazeland on the 19th inst. made to go hack to the system of ten years ago
Gutzlaff. charged with fighting and creating a'disturbance to get goods conveyed to Siberia. The railway among the cargo, the pirates captured the Not finding anything of value in Wing Fing Street, Wanchai, Two Chinese is useless, being completely blocked by military demanded the sum of $6,000 as a ransom. The constables found between 30 and 40 men fight trains. The rivers are in the same condition, lorcha arrived at her destination on Saturday, laodah and supercargo of the forcha and ing. They arrested the defendants, who were each fined $5, and bound over for 12 months, the steamers having no space to spare for or- When asked what he had to say one of the de- scarcity of many of the first necessaries of life the matter has already been reported to the dinary merchandise. At the same time, the the 13th inst. The owner left for Ningpo and fendants said: “Yesterday I was set upon by a over a great part of Siberia this year, heigh Ningpo Taotai.
number of men and beaten.".
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On the 22nd instant a party of excise officers,, accompanied by a European constable, boarded the French mail steamer Laos, which was on her way home. In the servants' quarters they found 59 skins and 13 tins, containing 960 taels of prepared opium. They arrested two servants who appeared to be in charge of the opium, but Captain Flandin refused to allow the officers to take their prisoners off the ship, though a Magistrate's warrant was produced. He, how- ever, did not object to let the opinm come ashore. Further action will be taken in the
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tened as it is by the influx of large numbers of troops who depend on the country for their supplies, makes it a matter of extreme conse- quence to the trader to get his stocks up to so good a market. Neither rail for river steam-service being available, Moscow merchants are prepar- ing to despatch caravans of goods in the good old way by horses.
Daily News says: The whole Post Office sys- "Nemo" in the course of a letter to the N.-C.
tem of China requires remodelling, including prising that no scheme has yet been drawn up that certainly of Shanghai itself, and it is sur-
At the Magistracy on the 23rd inst. William forms, needed by them as business men in the by business men enumerating the various re- Boog, a seaman out of employ, was charged with reconstruction of a new China, Sir Ernest attempting to commit suicide. A Chinese sea-Satow's visit to Shanghai would not have been man who lives in the same boarding house as the defendant said that at 1.30 p.m. on the 15th inst, he returned to his room and found the defendant with the end of a rope in his hand, the other and being tied to a hook. The end in the man's hand was in a noose and he was just about to put it round his neck, but the Chinaman prevented him from doing so. On the man being examined by Dr. Thomson he was found to be of sound mind, but of weak intelligence. Under the circumstances he was cautioned and discharged.
The steam-launch Wai Hoi left the harbour at about six o'clock on the 21st inst. „towing the Yee Yak lorcha, the latter being laden with $10,000 worth of kerosene oil, coal, and iror, which was owned by Chinese merchants and was being conveyed to Wuchow. When near Lin- tin Island on the Canton River a heavy squall came on and the lòrcha began to ship water, things ultimately beginning to look so serious that the kerosene oil was thrown overboard. The launch dropped the tow. An attempt was made to pick it up, but the rope broke, and as it was getting dark the launch took on board the 15 hands who were on the lorcha, abandoned her and put in at Lintin. At daylight the following morning the launch went out to hearch for the larcha, but was unable to find her, and it is feared that she and her cargo are lost.
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an unsuitable moment for Englishmen to ex- press their wants in full. Germans have had have the like. These nations, however, general. a similar opportunity and Frenchmen may yet ly work through their officials, who think for ly in favour of this method It may, however, them. Englishmen in England are not general- be inevitable to fall into it in the East, where Shanghai itself may be said to be ruled by triumvirate.
Auditor's office by the ambiguous state of the Owing to the confusion aggravated in the disbursement accounts of the sundry Captains of the Port and Collectors of Customs. in the islands, says a Manila paper, a bill will be in- troduced at next Wednesday's (24th inst.) session of the Philippine Commission providing for the abolishment of the office of the Captain of the except Manila, and transferring the duties of Port at every port in the Philippine Islands, the office of Captain of the Port to the Collector office of Captain of the Port and Collector of of Customs. In most of the islands' ports the.
duties are not so arduous as to prevent an officer Customs has been filled by one officer. The performing the duties of both offices. In ren- dering the accounts of the Captain of the Port and Collector of Customs many officers, holding the dual appointment, have not thoroughly their accounts unintentionally mixed, adds the understood where they were at, and rendered paper. As a natural sequence the Commission two offices, thereby relieving the overworked have considered it advisable to amalgamate the auditor and coercing matters military renerally.
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A Japanese diver, reports the Nagasaki Press, went down three times to the wreck of the Calanda on the 2nd inst., and on each bocasion managed to reach the bridge of the sunken vessel. He, reports that she is lying in EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED about 28 fathoms of water. He was unable to stay below for a longer period than five minutes, owing to the great pressure of water, and to there being a flaw above water in the airpipe | of his dress. He does not believe there are any bodies in the vessel and thinks they have buen carried out to see. This opinion is based on the absence of fish in the neighbourhood of the sunken vessel. The diver is engaged by frms interested in the cargo. He has been promised Y1,000 should be succeed in recovering the specie deposited on board by the local clice of 'E EXPORT OF TRA FROM CHINA TO ODER: Ramo-Chinese Bank, and a further reward for Anding the mail box belonging to
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Shanghai
820,674 9,587,610
221,484 9,491,174
9,908,284 9,712,058