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HONGKONG, 26TH OCTOBER, 1881. IN the London and China Express of September 9, there were published analyses of Taipeng and Japanese coals, with other information relative
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 1881.
Telegrams for Bangkok can go for. ward by mail closing at Singapore at
p.m. to-day, the 36th instant.
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Mercantile Bank pays por cont for London, 3rd Oct.-The Chartered the half year and carries to Reserve £5.000.
...$25.
Oriental Bank Shares... £22108. Chartered Bank... Chartered Mercantile Bank.: £22. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank £18.
The Directors of the Peninsular aud Oriental Corny have contracted with Messrs. Cairu & Co, of Greenock, for
grose measurement. The vessels, which two new stealpors of about 4,400 tons will be constructed on precisely similar lines, will be of the following dimen sions, viz-Length, 400 ft; breadth, 43 ft. and depth, 37 ft. The ongines will, bo of 800 horse-power nominal, working up to wore that 4,000 horse- power.indicated. The cylinders aro 55:
uliappy and scandalops memories which are now sullying the fame of England, With referonco to Egypt, he said that our action there had been in accordance with a strict and intimate allianco with France. In conclusion, speaking of the settlement in the Transvaal, he said that experience might necessitate the introduction of amend monts, but that the Government will protect the interests of the natives and the dignity of England.
St. Petersburg, 9th Oct.-The Shahi, and 100 in, and the stroke is 5 ft. of Porain has asked the Russian Go. 6 in. The vessels are to be named the verniment to send officers to remodel Ballarat and Parramatta,'tra the Persian army.
Tunis, Oct. 9th-Incessant ekir mishes are taking place between the French troops and the Arabs. The Frouch have evacuated Hammemot in
THE ENGLISH MAIL ** The P. and 0. mail stormer Gwalior, Captain A. W. Adamson, froin Bombay The Spanish transport Legaspi, which on the 8th inat, bringing the English has been andorgoing very heavy re-mail of the 23rd ultimo, arrived here pairs at Sam-shui-po, is expected to this morning. The following tolograms coine out of the Cosmopolitan Dock, are taken from the Straits Times Extra ready for son, to-morrow afternoon.
The Modesto, says the L. & C. Ex press, from the China station, has on bourd a fine specimen of a brown bear, sailors have trained to be as docile as a captured in North Japan which the cat. It is expected that, it will be presented to the Zoological Gardens. The following telegram was recoived
London, 4th Oct.-The Chartered and circulated yesterday by order of
Bank pays 3 per cent for the half His Excellency the Governor The..
year. Director of the Observatory, Manila, tan has explained to the British Am-
Constantinople, 4th Oct.--The Sal-consequence of sickness, to the Governor of Hongkong,bassador that the mission he has sont Manila, 24th October, .25 p.m.-to Egypt. is merely a friendly one, to Received 25th October, at 3.10 p.m. the Khedive. "Another typhoon is raging to the London, 5th Oct,Tho la fest advices N.E. of Luzon, close. to the Coast; it from the Transvaal state that the Com. appears to incline to the W.N.W."mittee to which the Convention was re- Later in the afternoon another telegram ferred have sent in their report to the was received and circulated which was Volksrand, which is now discussing the ns follows:-"The typhoon announced matter with closed doors. yesterday is going very slowly, and, as Sir Stafford Northcote, spoaking yes- the last, changes its direction frequent-terday at Beverly, said that the Con- ly through the hills of the Island. If sorvative party would support a read- it be possible I will give the direction justment of bardous on land in Ireland it has taken when it gets clear of the and compensation for improvements Island."
male by tonants. Ho aituckel the financial policy of the Government. pointed Financial Secretary in the Mr. Horace Walpole has been ap India Office.
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Qoituary-General Pott.
Egyptian otables has been convoked Cairo, 5th Oct-An assembly of for the 3rd December. The assembly will not discuss any questions concern. ing the foreing obligations of Egypt. orders from the Volksraad the Boer Durban, 5th Oct-Tu pursuance of
speaking at Wexford, declared Mr. London, 10th Oct. Mr. Parnell, Galstone to be unscrupulous, dishonest, and Ireland's unrivalled slanderer.
Constantinople, 10th Oct. The Porte is sending a special Commissioner to carry out. reformas in Armenia.
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Vionna, 10th Oct.-Baron de Hay merle, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, died to-day of heart
discaso.
The Clyde, built and engined by Mossra. Denny Brothers of Dumbarton, to the order of the P. & 0. Company, of 4,100 tons register, went on her trial on the Clyde on the 13th inst., aud attained a mean speed of 15.9 knots (equal to 183 miles) per hour, the horse power indicated being 4,900. The vessel is fitted with all the recent im- provements, the salvou and decorative. work being completed in a very artis. tic manner, The Clyde will be despat ched from London to Calcutta on the 11th Oct.
The Gazette announces that the
Queen has approved the appointment of Mr. R. G. Stiven as Danish Consul at Singapore.
New York, 10th Oct. The Senate elected President of the Senate pro met to-day. Bayard, a democrat, was
It is announced from New York that tem by 34 against 92 votes, the de-
agents of the Texas and New Mexico railroad companies have recently con- mocratic majority in the Senate ob- tracted at Hongkong for a thousand. structing the admission of new republicaolies, at a dollár and a quarter per Onu Senators.
day, with transportation gratis. Other importations are expected to follow. It is difficult to see how the contracts can be reconciled with the new regula tion that only a limited number of Chi- nese can be brought to the States in one vessel.
INDIAN NEWS. Lahore, 30th September. The out- break of choleraic fever at Umritsur
daily is nearly three hundred. Urgent has much increased. The mortality telegrams have been received here for medical assistance. The Sikh priests are reading gruntha continuously to tiou are in great alarm. avert further calamity, and the popula-gapore just whan the cable which
We note the arrival this morning by the P. & O. Company's steaner Gwalior of Major-Moore-Lane, lato of the 47th Foot, and now of the Army Pay De. partinent, who comes out to take charge of that branch in this colony. Major Moore-Lane is no stranger to Hons kong, having held an appointment here some three or four years ago. The gallant Major is, a distinguished ama- tear histrion, and will be remembered as having made a favourable appear-Government have telegraphed to the. ance as Captain Hawkesley in Tom British Government that the fonvention Taylor's "Still Waters Run Deep" at is contrary to the terms of the Sand the City Hall with the A.D.O. He River Treaty, and strongly protosting will prove a valuable recruit to our local against several of its clauses. They amateurs during the coming season.
Tallicherry, 1st-October. The Brit. request that the Convention be modifiel.isli India steamer Africa stranded at has ordered the oconpation of the porta cargo is being landed at Tellicherry in Tunis, 5th Oct-General Sausier Cody Quilandy this morning. The in Tunis.
to the former as to induce the belief. that the coking of the refuse coal was We note the departure for Shanghai in contemplation. We cannot see of Mr. Robert Smith, for the past two why a similar procedure cannot be resorted to at Keelung where the coal porter of our evening contemporary or three years sub-oditor and chief ro- rubbish and dust-a nuisance un- the China Mail. This gentleman, it avoidable in collieries-have accu- will be remembered, figured rather mulated to the extent of 15,000 tons. ignobly in the recent Telegraph libel The preparation of coke is altogether case. Like ourselves, Mr. Smith's con- a very simple process, inexpensive,fidence in "certain exceedingly frail and not demanding the elaborate machinery and appliances required for the manufacture of patent fuel. It may be of interest to some of our readers, particularly those interested in coal mining in China and Japan, to learn that one pound of English coke is capable of evaporating 12.9 pounds of water; this theoretical heating power being calculated from the composition, which is given as follows
Carbon Sulphur... Mositure Aah
.86.54 0.31 0.40 ..12.75
100.00
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specimens of a greatly maligned hu- manity" proved to be misplaced. The plaintiff Wicking, after obtaining all the information he possibly could from Mr. Robert Smith, including a private letter of ours, further distinguished himself by publicly repudiating in open-court all association with that gentleman. Mr. Robert Smith goes northward to assume a position on the North China Daily Nunes, and although we have little reason to wish him luck in his new sphere, we honestly do so, and more, can congratulate our Shang- hai contemporary on having secured the services of a most experienced porter and journalist.
B Karslake.
London, 6th Oct-Obituary, Sir J.
also suffering
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Here at Lahore cholera has died out, but cholersic fover is very heavy.
bonis sent for assistance.
Tellicherry, 2nd Oct. --The Africa is in extremne danger, water is in 'tween missioners have been received here and
Cairo, 6th Oct.-The Turkish Com-decks, fires have been drawn. at Alexandrin with great ceremony.
London, 7th, Oct.--Tab Standard publishes a telegram stating that a serious rising is reported in Zululand. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Leeds to participate,iu a Liberal demonstra. tion.
Mr. Gladstone specking at Leeds said that the Irish Land Act was not needed in England, but that changes were required in the relation between landlords and tenants.
town of Tunis.
The French force has occupied the
London, 8th Oct.-A Cabinet Connoil is summoned for Wednesday next.
A merchant in Perang recently found it necessary to send a message to Sin-
crosses the Straits of Malacca had boon broken by a storm. The message was, however, bound to go; and go, it did- from Penang to Madras, Bombay, Aden Alexandria, Malta, Maraeilles, Paris, Calais, Faroe, Riga, Vladivostock, Hongkong, and Saigon to Singapore. journey it would be difficult to say, nor How often it was taken off" on its
are we told in what condition it arrived. But having boon sent answer paid,' tho reply duly returned by the same route in thirty-six hours.
The steamer Proteus, owned by Mr.
The Captain has wired to Bombay James Stewart, member of Parliamont
for pumps and steamer. No lives were lost.
Calicut, 1st October-The steamer Africa was wrecked before dawn on Saturday, seventeen miles north of Caliqat The weather was calm, and the passengers were lauded safely, No lives were lost. The atester was
Master Attendant have gone to the bound from Calicut to Bandagara.
The Agent and his Assistant and the
scene of the accident,
Tho subjoined items are taken from the London and China Express :--
Captain Thomas Moore Maquay, Mr. Gladstone, speaking at a ban." quot at Townhall, Leeds, said that the command of the Fantome, sloup, on R.N, whose last service afloat was in re-issue in Ireland was between law and the Pacific station in 1877-78, died at lawlessness. He contrasted Parnell's Brighton on the ith instant, at the gospel of public plunder and his degra.early age of forty-two. In 1864 he Of the ash, 9.86 and 2.89 wers,
Our morning contemporary has againding and immoral doctrines with Daniel went out to Chins for duty as first respectively, insoluble and soluble in afforded the community an opportunity O'Connell's loyal utterances. He ad- lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte, acids. These figures will serve for for a good deal of scandalous gossip.mitted that the passing of the Land receiving ship at Hongkong. At the purposes of comparison, The Our morning contemporary has again Act imposed upon Government now and close of the following year he was lity of the coke will, of course, depend demonstrated its claim to be fairly con- special obligations to rigorously enforce given command of the gunbout Bustard, on the coal from which it is produced. sidered the organ of falsehood and law and uphold public peace. In con and served with hor on the China A high per centage of ash and exces-malicious spits. The Daily Press of clusion he appealed to all classes to station until promoted commander in sive density which render coke in-
of this morning contains the following support the Government in the grout 1867. combustible at an ordinary red heat paragraph The Governor has not imponding crisis. are disadvantages which manufacture can materially reduce, and we have no doubt that with the prospect of good demand and a ready market for the article, those interested in, or connected with, the coal industry in the Far East, will give the subject the attention its importance merits.
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wasted much time since his return in
Tanis, 8th Oct-A short supply of water impedes the French advance on Kaironan.
Constantinople, 8th Oct-The Porte has sent a sanitary commission to Mecca to enquire into the cholera outbreak there.
The Modesto, screw corvette, which returned from the China Station last week, is boing rapidly dismantled in the steam basin at Shoorness Dockyard. She is to be paid out of commission on the 30th inst., wlien the crew will be granted the usual leave of absence,
affording food for gossip, for we now hour that His Excellency has intimated to Dr., Eitol that the services of the latter as Private Soorotary will no longer be required." Dr.. Litel's dis missal from his post of Private Secre-
The Tyno, 2, iron troop and store tary to His Excellonoy is the talk of London, 9th Oct. Mr. Gladstone, ship, 3,560 tons, 1,190-horse power, the Colony, and various rumours are replying to addresses from the Northern Commander J. D. Stokes, having com- flying round as to the cause of his dis- Chamber of Commerce at Leeds yes-pleted repairs, has proceeded to Wool grace. Our morning contemporaryterday. said that the Government will wich to ship stores for Gibraltar and Mesars, Lobnitz and Co., of Renfrew, has a deal to answer for, and must not concludo a retrogressive Treaty of Malta, and after delivering them she who have had a steamer under conscertainly, have reached the depths of Commerco with France, nor sacrifice will return to England and ship stores traction for the China Merchants Steam journalistic degradation when it con- oxisting principles.
for the China atation. Navigation Company for some time, descends to promulgate atrocious At a liberal meeting in the after- are expected to launch the vessel on falsehoods of this description for the noon, at which 25,000 people were the 4th prox The dimensions are sake of creating a sensation. We are present, he severely criticized the 290ft, length, 34ft. benw, and 24ft. in a position to stato authoritatively depth, and to be of 200 h.p. nominal that the paragraph in the Daily Press vernment and rejoiced that British She is intended for the Californian referring to the Governor and Dr. Eitel troops had been withdrawn from trade of the Company. We believe is entirely without foundation, a pure Afghanistan except in an outlying that the same builders have contracted fabrication published for reasons which corner, where peculiar circumstances for another vessel to be ready for we leave our contemporary to explain. required them. He hoped that stoopy sea as soon as possiblo- & O. Ex. The morning paper might state the perseverance in carrying out a Liberal
source of its false information.
polioy would efface some of the most
The Russian Government aro, it is stated, watching with suspicion the endeavours, which China is making to Afghan policy of the Conservative Go-regain possession of the Amoor dis- tricts in order to prevent any further aggressions by Russia in that quarter. The Russian officials look with favour upon a scheme of emigration and set tlomeat of colonists along the Chinese frontior, and are willing to pay con siderable subsidics.
for Greenock, has returned to St.John's, Newfoundland, from Lady Franklin Bay, having exccessfully landed the American Arctic Expedition on the 11th ultimo. The Proteus brought back the English Arctic mail deposited on Littleton Island' in 1876. Inst
there being open water as far as the winter was very mild, and the ship could have penetrated farther north, eye could reach. News received at Copenhagon from the Dutch Polar Expedition, on board the schooner William Barents, is very unfavourable. Owing to the ico; Spitzbergen could Islands; and after one more attempt not be reached, nor even tho Bear to force a passage northward, the ex pedition will return home. The captain Sarolja is completely enclosed in a is convinced that this year Novaya barrier of ice.
The Modeste, 14, screw corvette, 1970, (1,105) tons, 2,180 (350) horse power, Captain James G. Mead, arrived at Sheoriess on the 12th inst., from the China Station. On coming to the harbour she fired a suluts of 15 guus, which was answered by 7 from the Duncan flagship of Vice Admiral Sir R. J. Macdonald, K.C.S.L., Commun dor-in-Chief at the Noro: Sho has siuco and taken into the stean basin to be been inspected by Admiral Macdonald, dismantled and paid out of commission. The Modesto was commissioned at Do vonport in Jan., 1874, nud recommis- eioned at Hongkong in May, 1877. Vice Admiral Sir R. J. Macdonald;" Coatmander-in-Chief at the Noro, after & minute examination of the crow, and of the various parts of the ship warmly complimented Captain Mead on the general efficiency of his mou and the appearance of the ship. The Egeria, composite sloop, Commander C, John-, stone, arrived in Plymouth Sound ou the 19th inst. from the Chan station, oud will be paid off at Devonport.
be the putting of two and (wo together A modern esanycat defines gossip to
and making five of them.