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The third Spoon Competition (900 yards) of the Hongkong Rifle Association took place on Satur day, and was won by Lieut. Carlyle, R.A., with 29 points, Mr. E. L Woodin being second with palats, and Sergt. Robertson, H.K.P., third with ay points. The eleven other competitors were a long way behind. The wind was much too gusty for high scoring.
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THE Chinkiang.correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes under date the 16th inst
During the last twenty-four hours rain has fallen henvily, and it was sadly needed. The farmers will now be able to sow their rice. The crops of wheat and barley just garnered are above the average. The British Consul returned to day from Nanking by H. B., M.'s ship
Satellite,"
THE "cry is still they come." The Kowloon Land Investment and Building Company, Limited, was duly registered on Thursday last. This Company has been formed for output of developing certain properties at Kowloon, with a capital of $300,000, divided into six thousand shares of $50 each. The Hon. P. Ryrie, Mr. F. A. Gomes, and Mr. Ho Tung are the directors, and the management will be in the hands of the Hongkong Land Investment Co.
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THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending June 23rd, are:-Europeans 202, Chiucas 2,097; total, 2,299 AN Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. sat, EC, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 26th instant, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
THE Japan Mail of the 10th instant says: -On Saturday the Monocacy left the berth she has so long occupied in the harbour. At a quarter, before three her wheels revolved, and, passing outside the red buoy and inside the lightship, after a short stay off the Omaha to communicate with the flagship she steamed to Yokosuka, where she will be docked..
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IN the House of Commons on the 21st ulto. Sir James Fergusson informed Six J. Swinburne that it was a fact, as shown by an examination which took place in the year 1815, that a balance of the accounts between Britain and Fortugal, was due by Portugal of £3.489,240, on account of arms, ammunition, and other supplies, fur- nished during the Peninsular War. This balance had not been repaid to England, nor bad Por- tugal paid any interest upon it. Her Majesty's Government did not think that any practical advantage would at present result from the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the matter with a view to the recovery of the amount due.
worked by a French Company, The reason given by the Servian Government for this step is the maladministration of the lines by the French Company.
ROME, June 7th. Advices from Massowab states that the Italian troops have occupied Keren unopposed.
BERLIN, June 7th. destroyed Sandant, meeting with but slight News has been received by the German Govern- ment that Captain Wissmann has attacked and
opposition.
rounded by the fire. It is currently reported that, in their houses, having become entirely sur
there have been over ten thousand families burned put; some estimate the number much greater, Company, M. Charles Lesseps, replying to strong amount of property. destroyed is also enormous At a shareholders' meeting of the Suez Canal but that is, I think, near the number. The protests made against the London agreement, probably not ten cent of everything in the burned explained that the agreement was concluded to district being saved. Lau Chow is situated save the Company from ruin, because he had in the fork of two rivers, very much in the learned that the Khedive had granted a con- cession for a new-canal. The directors' report trading mart in this province. It is the seat same position as Chungking, and is the second was eventually adopted.
of n Thotai, and the chief 'centre of the LONDON, June 7th, salt and sugar industries in Western China. notwithstanding the operation he Intely under-able that could be to promote a rapid con- It is reported that the condition of Lord Lyston, The situation of the city is the most favour
absence from the British Embassy in Paris. went, is serious, and will involve his protracted flagration, as it lies on the slope of a mountain facing the north-east gale which was blowing at that time; and the buildings, all old, being built of wood and thoroughly dry; those near the river were chiefly temporary constructions and covered with grass or bamboo mats. Under
Money has been pretty liberally subscribed to such circumstances it will be readly understood why the flames spread with such fearful rapidity. aid the sufferers all over the country. Che-ou and the neigbouring districts are said to have raised nearly half a million of taels for them. Lou Chow, like all other large Chinese cities, con- tains a great number of very poor people, who do not make any more than a very scant living in the best of time, but after such a calamity it will be difficult for many of them to find the means to sustain life, though, at the present time, there is one thing greatly in their favour, and that is rice is very cheap; a very fair article may be purchased at thirteen or fourteen cash per catty; this is about as cheap as rice is ever known, to be in this province; therefore if the unfortunates can manage to get together twenty as the warm weather is now coming on they will be able, in a measure, to recover themselves before the next cold season begins. The last three years the crops have been good, and living is cheap, and the prospects of the present crop are also excellent; but, notwithstanding farming is prosperous, trade is very dull-Mercury.
LONDON, June 8th. Lord Harris has been attacked with diphtheria.
BELGRADE, 8th June. The Servian Metropolitan Michael, who lately returned here from Moscow, was been officially
reinstated,
LONDON, May 9th.
The Corporation of London have voted an address of welcome to the Shah of Persia, to be presented to him in a gold casket of the value of 200, and in addition to expend £2,000 in entertaining His Majesty.
PARIS, June 9th. One General and two other officers have bee
Boulanger and his followers,
We note that in Singapore the police occasionally visit the public-houses patronised by sailors, and take samples of the liquor for analysis. It is a howling shame that nothing of the sort is done here, where there are thousands of sailors belonging to the Navy and mercantile marine. Some of those Queen's Road West rum-mills seem to sell nothing but a maddening liquor something like carbolic acid flavored with kind of the best description only. No other cayenne pepper and warmed with a' dash of storm nearly coinciding, as is so often the case, arrested here on a charge of 'complicity with five cash per day they need not go hungry; and quality is kept in Stock. Our long experience molten lead. Now, General Gordon, please! and intimate acquaintance with the Trade and the best sources of supply enables us to purchaic direct from the Producers on the very best terms, and thus gives us an advantage which enables us to offer our Constituents the benefit of a considerable reduction in the price of all Specialities of our own Manufacture or putting up, as compared with similar articles sold else where.
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SHANGHAI was visited with a heavy shower, with thunder and lightning, on the afternoon of the 19th inst, three inches of rain falling between 4 and 5 pin. Most the streets were flooded, the
with high water in the river. A great part of the public garden was a lake, the central grass. plot being surrounded by a broad sheet of water, nearly a foot in depth in places, and most of the paths were floorted, and a similar state of affairs existed in the Cathedral compound. Hankow Road was in some places a foot under water. the surface of the roads. The total rainfall up A tremendous quantity of sand was washed off
to midnight was 3 36 inches,
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The Nova Scotian barque Constance, which arrived here, from New York a fortnight or so UNDER date the gth inst. the Newchwang corres-ago with a cargo of kerosine, must have been a pondent of the N. C. Daily News writes: The regular hower of bliss. Her crew of fourteen country is perished for want of rain. Prayers men-principally Danes and Swedes-joined have been put up, and a general fast ordered, her in New York, and, according to their story, so that no animal may be slaughtered fill the the trouble began at once. Before she left the joss of heavenly waters be propitiated. Mean harbor one or two of them were knocked while, we have dust and wind continually, and down, with the result that the rest refused to dreadful rumours of sickness and starvation work any more until they had seen their Consuls. from all parts of the province. Railways only Captain Tingley persuaded them to forego that will eventually save the province, not simply to pleasure by starding on the poop with a little provide the people with the means of earning gun and giving them sixty seconds to turn to As recommended by the London Board of their living, but to communicate with the distant gain. From thien, for four months and a half,
districts where relief is required.
knocking down seems to have formed a regular part of the daily routine in the ship. After A DARING instance of coolie-kidnapping was arriving here the vessel anchored in mid stream narrated at the Police Court on Saturday after-off East Point, and none of the men were allowed noon. A crimp in Canton got acquainted with Frenchman named Pascal jumped overboard, and to go ashore. One night last week, therefore, a young jade-cutter who was carrying vegetables for lack of other employment, and persuaded after struggling with the swift current for, abcut him to try "foreign parts," where he would get an hour was taken on board a junk, and so, half $30 or $40 a month, he said. An accomplice naked, gat to Hongkong. He obtained a sum corroborated all this, and all three got on board mans, which was heard on Saturday before the the Kinngchow. On the way down the young Harbour Master, He had been struck by the fellow learnt something of what was in store for second mate-ofe Reilly-with a belaying-pin, him, and when the boat reached Hongkong on the nose, severing the cartilage. He bad to early on Saturday morning, he tried to get away. doctor himself, extracting the broken portion and They forcibly prevented him, however, and, plastering up the wound with cigarette paper. with the help of a boarding-house keeper, were
For the assault Reilly was fined $5-rather more dragging him along, when Detective Sergeant than Mr. Pollock fines an unlicensed hawker! But the hearing of his case enabled him to Macdonald, with two ludongs at his heels, came up and arrested them. They were committed compel the Captain to allow some of his com for trial.
rades to come ashore, by issuing subpoenas, and when they did so two of them also obtained summonses. Of the fourteen sailors, ali but one, they allege, were violently assaulted. Many of them bear cars and bald patches on their heads, where the hard end of a belaying pin has fallen, although they all seem a yery decent lot of men.
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SAYS the Singapore Free Press :--We hear of what appears to be a new and probably success ful enterprise in connection with Pahang. It is known that rivers draining auriferous districts yield frequently large quantities of gold on having their beds exploited either by dredging,
The two cases, one against the mate and the or other methods. When gold cannot be worked from the matrix in payable quantities the chan-other against the second mate, were before the nele of streams serve to collect in a limited area Harbour Master, Commander Rumsey, R.N., gold sufficient to make its extraction very profit, this morning. Mr. Hastings, of Messrs. Wotton able. This is to done, experimentally in the
and Deacon, appeared for the complainants. firat instance, as regards certain of the Pahang
When the stipendiary appeared, after nearly an rivers, and we hear that preliminary steps are
hour's delay, now being taken by several leading Singapore residents who have already secured the right of prospecting these river-beds. In California, New Zealand, and elsewhere this operation has
some of the crew were unable to get on shore.
Mr. Hastings asked for an adjournment, as
Commander Rumsey consented, and adjourned the case till Wednesday. He ordered three of
THE HANKOW TEA MARKET,
Hankow, June 12th, 1889. The tea settlements to-day were as under:-
Englah Buyers, Russian Buyers, Toiai,
Chel
1.Chesia. Hankow Tea......3,305
4,748 8,054 Kiokiang Tea......... 1,070
442
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4.976
2,112
5.100 10,166 The demand from buyers for London has run chiefly on Oanfaas and Taoyuens which have advanced fully Tls. 2 from the lowest point. The Russian houses are buying sparingly owing to the difficulty of procuring "pure" teas such as that market exacts. Our stock figures as 150,000, but the greater part of this being almost unmer chantable will, it is to be hoped, never go into European consumption, and so justify the favourite characterisation of Chinese tea by the home and Indian papers as " China rubbish,"
Second crops are expected in four days' time June 13th.. English buyer Russian buyers. Total. Hankow Tea.....5.187 Kiukiang Tea,......1,geo
3,287
8,474 324 2,224
7,087 3,611
10,224 The market is quiet and the amall business transacted does little more than keep pace with arrivals so that the heary unsold stock (about 150,000-chests) remains undiminished.
Today's quotations are:- ingchow, low to medium......Tis. 10.00 ₫ 22.00 #1454 # 11 50 4 16:00 Oanfa and Taoyuen, Shantam
kind to fair.................. p 10.75 4 21.25 Oopack, low to common
10 50 @ 11.25 The bulk of the business being in Oanfas, which are about the only available pure tea remixining.
Hohow
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Musters of second crops from the Ningchow, Yang-lo-tung and Wenkai districts were shewn to-day. The quality so far appears to be good, third steamer for Odessa this season. The only The Mogul departed last night, making the two direct steamers on the berth for London, the Bentedi and the Kaisow, reduced their rate steamers loading 24 Shanghai for some time to-day to 2, the same as the rate taken by
past.
months sight.
Exchange has declined to 4/4 for credits, 4
Tea settlements today -
Hankow Teas ..... Kinkiang Teas
June 14th.
Russian
Buyers,
Totala,
Buyers
Ches, 1,731
NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.
A fire broke out at Wuhu on the 2nd June amongst the straw huts on Yu Kêng Shan at the Consulate boundary wall. Mr. Everard and the mouth of the Creek, not far from the British constable turned out to help to extinguish the dames. Five of the huts were burned down, and one telegraph-post.
The ex-Minister to Japan, Su Taotai, who has been tried on a charge purchase of copper for them in Japan during his "squeezing" the Chinese Government in connection with the ternt of office, has been condemned to pay Tie 32,000 to close the case. He has petitioned the Viceroy Tseng. Kwo-ch'uan to be allowed to return to his home to arrange for the raising of this sum by, the sale of his estate; but the Viceroy insists on substantial security before he will consent to release him from surveillance.
amount of tonnage could be advantageously increase of trade upon the coast, an increased employed. The Board have accordingly resaved. to transfer the Taftong from the Calcutta Line to the trade between Shanghai and the Southern ports of China, for which she was originally built; and to fill her place between Hongkong and Calcutta they have chartered the steamer Aforay, already favourably known in that trade. the beginning of the present month. The latter vessel was to commence running at
To meet further requirements the Board have decided to build another new consting steamer, the London and Glasgow Ship-building Company, the contract for which has just been made with and she is to be completed in December next.
Notwithstanding the continued competition which the Company has had to encounter on the chief lines of communication, the Board are much gratified that they are able to congratulate the shareholders on a year of
48,903 in 1887, and £53.870 in 1886, although exceptional prosperity. The net earnings of the steamers in 1888 have reached £71.307, against the average number of steamers employed was about the same in all three years. This satis factory result 'enables the Board, after making full allowances for depreciation, to recommend a dividend of 6 per cent for the year, carrying forward a balance of £1,606 14%, gd, to the next account. If this should be approved by the meeting, the dividend warrants will be issued, on the 13th June.
The Directors have now decided to transfer
the remaining balance of the account standing
in former balance-shecis as #Parchase of Business," to the cost of the feet, so that the amount may be steadily diminished in 'future, pari pastu with the valuations of the vessels. For the past-year they consequénily write off from these two items £13,456, against £25.363. in 1887, and £24.281 in 1886. The reserve available for Underwriting Account, after debit- ing it with the loss of the Lee Sang, amounts to
22,445 16s. 1od. carried forward.
In reference to the demand for freight during the past year, the General Agents remark :-
"Though the closing months of the year were dull, the rates of freight were never unduly depressed, as was the case during 1887, and on the whole, the results of the working on all the Company's Lines may be regarded as very satisfactory. The usual demand for tonnage to load at Newchwang for the Southern ports, which generally sets in during the months of October and Novem= ber, did not arise this year, owing partly to the heavy floods in the Newchwang district, which prevented produce coming down to the part in any quantity, and partly to the very high prices demanded by the growers, which greatly restricted operations. The trade from Shanghai to the Southern ports bas been moderately good. Occasionally cargo has been sufficiently plentiful to keep all, the regular liners well employed, and during November and December an unpre cedented rush of cotton to Kobe and Yoko- bama gave some of the larger vessels good employment."
Company has been maintained with regularity and efficiency. On the Calcutta Line there is The service on all the lines occupied by the
no new feature to notice; but as in the case of the Coast Lines the returns for the year show na improvement.
J. MACANDREW.
Chairman,
The Fuh Ngan, Chinese Government vessel, brought to Nanking from Hunan an image of Kwan-yin Buddha, which the Viceroy Teng then ordered to be taken to the sacred island of Pootoo. The, idol, which is of some antiquity and celebrity, was given as a present to the "In accordance with the Articles of Association Viceroy, who devoted it as an offering from him. Mr. William S. Steel retires from the Board, self to a temple at Pooloo, While the Fu but being eligible offers himself for re-election, Ngan Ixy anchored in the South Hwangpoo at Shanghai, with the idol in the bows, sur& Co., likewise, relire, but offer themselves for The Auditors, Mesars, Turquand Youngs rounded by Buddhist gear, such asbronze incense re-election. burners, umbrellas, etc., great numbers of class, went off in boats to burn incense to it, the
By Order of the Board, people, including many women of the basest
their eagerness, they exacted a fare, of a cents sampan men reaping a rich harvest, as, seeing
Ninguo is that it was a living Buddha, having per head. The miracle related of the idol at been transformed from an old woman who paid her passage, came on board, and disappeared, this idol remaining behind instead of her, had found its way to Shanghai, and had much Ponton island yesterday morning, and after she influence on the devotees. The gunboat left for had gone the credulous people were still flocking from the city with joss-sticks, to find to their sorrow that they were too late to get a sight of
her.
-Chess 3.216 4.947
464
The ison mines at Tsing-k4 Hien, Szechow 1,928 Fu, Province of Kwei-chow, are under the charge of a Taot'ai, younger brother of the Governor of S1975 Kwei-chow, Tsing.ki is a wretched city, nearly 2 miles long by one, broad, mostly unoccupied
2,295 3,680 Shipped to Shanghai on native account, 195
ICHANG.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
June 13th. It is not very often that any port in China gets a new Coneal and a new Commissioner on the same day. That this should happen in so small a port as Ichang is the more remarkable. But not only did Mr, Fraser and Mr. von Fries both take charge on the 1st of June, but the steamer that brought up the latter, brought up the new Roman Catholic Bishop, so well-known as Père Benjamin, as also a new missionary to open a personnel is thus nearly all changed, but the place boule for the China Inland Mission here. The
all that appears the prosecution of the same they had been away already three days without little worth buying left. Buyers are leaving the 26, and go of each month a'market is beld changes. It may amuse his friends to hear that should prove equally successful.. form of enterprise as regards the Pahang rivers leave,
We regret to have to record the death of another well-known China hand in the person of.Mr. L. H. D'Egville, chief officer of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. steamer At Koolangsu, (Amoy) on the 18th June, the in the service of the Viceroy of Canton Kiukiang, Mr. D'Egville was for a number of years wife of W. S. ORR, of a son...
under Captain Stewart of the Chinto, and afterwards successively commanded Messrs. W. On the sand June, 1889 at Pedder's Hill, Milburn & Son's steamers Amoy, Giisland, and ISABELLA, the beloved wife of Alexander | Ningpo, running on the Shanghai-Canton route. Stopani, aged 49.
[790 For the past week or two Mr. D'Egville had At the Government Civil Hospital, on the suffered rather severely from asthma, but no 24th inst, L. H. D'EOVILLE, chief officer, S. S.
serious consequences were apprehended, and he Klukiang.
continued to perform his duties as usual. At Macao (789
last night he was suddenly taken ill, and although medical assistance was at once procured and everything possible done to alleviate his offerings, he gradually grew worse. On arrival here this forenoon he was, on medical advice, removed to the Government Civil Hospital, but expired in his chair at the door of that institution, the immediate cause of death being Bright's disease, The fur eral will leave the Hospital at 5 o'clock to. morrow afternoon, and should be at the Monu-
The Honghong Celegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1889.
TELEGRAMS.
Mr. Hastings protested, as the men were in fear of their life, as they would swear, ifnecessary. of saying so on Saturday, and had not availed Commander Rumsey said they had chance
themselves of it, so they would have to go back. (Pascal) had already received severe injuries, Mr. Hastings pointed out that one of the men
The men themselves begged not to be sent back, but
and another had. had his head cut open.
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still the same, and it only remains to be seen what the new arrivals will make of it. Mr. von Fries has, however, got his leave from November, he will not have much for great port and the stock will probably follow, Nothing outside the East Gate, which is the solitary the Ichang mandarins are greatly delighted with so far in second crops.
commercial excitement of the place; the com- his appearance. Hao-kan," they say stroking Prices paid have been :--
modities dealt in on market-days are salt, their own cheeks and china. Is he not hand- Oopacks, common to mediam......12 15.8.
cotton cloth, and rice. In Kwel-chow a market-some? We have never had a Commissioner. day is called kan-ch'ang, which differs from the like this before," referring to the present Acting Oanfas, Shantams........... Ningchows, medium
names employed in other provinces. The word Commissioner being the proud possessor of a 21.50 kan, burry, is used, because the dealers hurry whiskers, moustache and beard. The effect of The Russia cleared to-day for Odessa, leaving at each town. The natives are a rough, simple winding up with "He is just like a Chinaman." from place to place with their goods, staying a day the compliment is somewhat marred by its the Kostroma till on the berth. The Benleds lot, and the country roads are very diflicult, passing Blahop Chrishners had a very grand reception. and Kaisew are loading very slowly for London over huge bills as they do, so that the transport A beat load of Christians came off, and strewed Mr. Rumsey said he would take the respon-La, the bulk of the tea going past them to the huge pleces of machinery to Taing-kl was crackers like flowers upon the waters, playing sibility. He, however, ordered the Captain to the steamers sailing from Shanghai,
very arduous work. A local saying describes the let them come ashore when they asked,"
14th June, and they accordingly went off, but very un Captain Tingley then ordered the men away,
roads as și wu son li ping, "not a mile of level plaintive music the while. Is there a funeral, June 15th. road.". A river flows by the town by which on ?" asked the unconscious Bishop. Then as To-day's tea settlements were as follows:-
there is water communication with the Yangtze chair, parasol, and other insignia of mandarin be landed amidst a cracker-firing crowd, a grand willingly.
English Buyers, Russian Buyers, Totale.
lo one, direction, and with Chên-ylian Fu in Hankow Tea......3.420 2,332 5.742 another. Navigation for boats is difficult and have brought a chale for me. It is raining.. rank, he exclaimed quickly, "You really right Kiukiang...........3,882
1,882 Intricate, and the mountains on both sides are
the home of man-eating tigers and leopards. And did you not know I should land in my LONDON, June 5th.
5,303
7,634 Great amazement appeared in the faces of the vestments? See what a beautiful chair has Chaplin moved a resolution "That the House 1.134 1-chests. Danfas and Taoyuens continue and other machinery installed on a piece of flet now it does not matter. But fetch me
In the House of Commons last night Mr.
Shipments to Shanghai on native account, simple natives, who flocked to see the smciting come for that mandarin, who came up with us. But, good Father "Come-come considers the recent divergence in value of
the favourites, notwithstanding their noted tarry ground on the other side of the river from the some sort of a chair, do, I don't want to precious metals is prejudicial in the highest favour; in fact they appear to be the only town, near the mines, degree to the finances and government of India, districts (except Shantam, which shares their and seriously adds to the difficulties of trade. favour) from which non-damaged teas can still between the United Kingdom and countries be culled, the bulk of the stock being only fi mentabout 5.30. Mr. D'Egville was a Freemason which possessa silver standard. It is further of for the Shanghai market and a member of Lodge St. John, and all brethren opinion that this divergence has been primarily
Prices paid to-day have been :- and friends are respectfully invited to be present due to monetary changes which have occurred Ningchow, common to medium......16.5 4 32.5 at the last rites to his memory.
upon the Continent and to the abandon- Canfa, Shantam kind to fair................................10.6 # 15 IN the British Consular Court at Hankow on the in certain European countries prior to 1875, Copack, low and common.............. 9.34 10 ment of the bimetallic system which prevailed Taoyden, fair .........$4.50 15 14th inst. Mesers. Gordon Bros. sued the China It views with great regret the recent prolonged Shantam 3.5. Shippers' Mutual S. N. Co. for taels 3:00, loss depression of trade and agriculture, and the incurred through the defendants refusing to ship consequent inegularity of employment for all quarters of good pure ten this year is barely It is now evident that the supply available for A quantity of tea belonging to the plaintiffs for most members of the population, to which two-thirds of last year's reduced yield; and of the London market. The defendants are the it believes those changes have contributed this the Russians have captured fully three- LOCAL AND GENERAL. owners of the steamer Moyuse, which was the is a material degree, It therefore urges on always practically unlimited, if called for.-N. C. fourths the supply of common is of course first steamer that left Hankow for London with Government the importance of consulting Tuz Shanghai Horse Bazaar has been success.
new season's tes. As usual at the commence nations such as Germany, the United States, Daily News. fully floated as a limited liability company.
ment of the season, the demand for space in the France, and other countries which comprise the first ship by the tea dealers in Hankow was greater Latin Union, as to their readiness to join with THE house No. 21, Elgia Street, sold at auction than the accommodation in the ship and conse- the United Kingdom in a Conference for the by Mr. G. R. Lammert on Friday last, realisedquently the owners had to apportion the space to purpose of considering whether, and how far; a the applicants the best way possible, Gordon bimetallic system can be re-established by $7,500,
Bros. applied for 120 tons, but only go tons were international agreement in the interest of all given them, which they declined to accept, and nations and communities concerned." the present action was taken. The defendants stated that last year the plaintiffs applied for 400 tons of space in the foyune, which was granted to them, but another ship arriving at Hankow soon after and charging a lower freight they shipped in her. The defendants took no action for this breach of contract, but to guard against a repetition of this kind they only allowed the plaintiffs go tone of space. Plaintiffs alleged that their tex, it falled to reach the London market by the first tea steamer, and consequently they had incurred a loss of Tis. 3000, for which they claimed. Judgment for defendants, with costs,
THE BALKANS.
LONDON, June 15th. There is growing disquiet regarding the situation in the Balkans.
Russia has proposed to Servia to conclude a mallitary convention, and it is feared that unless the hostility of the Regents at Belgrade against Austria moderates, the latter will declare its
continuance a casus belli,
THE sorting of the mails on the Messageries Maritimes steamers will begin on the 1st July, The sorters will join the vessels at Saigon. SAVE our Shanghai morning contemporary On the evening of the rith June, when on her last upward trip, the steamer Kiangfoo experi- enced a very severe thunderstorm, accompanied by very heavy tala and remarkably large bail stones which broke upwards of thirty windows few minutes blew with hurricane force. The steather was anchored for nearly an hour with over 75 fathoms of cable out, about three miles below.Calliope Beacon.
Mr. Maclean moved an amendment declaring that the report of the Currency commission was inconclusive, and that therefore Government were not warranted in taking any action on the same.
GREAT FIRE AT LOU CHOW.
Chunking, 1st May, 1889, On the rath of April the district city of Lon chow was visited by one of the most dire calami- ties that has ever befallen any city in the Chinese Empire; over three-fifths of the entire city and suburbs were destroyed by fire. The fire is said to have originated outside of the city near the river, through burning, Joss paper. The wind blowing strong at the time, some of the grass used for fuel, the fire spreading with great burning paper was blown into stack of dried rapidity in all directions, so that in very few minutes it was entirely beyond control. The loss of life has been very great, sald to number masy hundreds. Very many people barely and Servis owing to the laster having forcibly what they had on. Numbers were trodden A serious question has arisen between France escaped with their lives, saving nothing but taken over Servian sallways which were being to death in the rush, and not a few were burned
were unable to agree to a change till they were Mr. W. H. Smith said that the Government convinced that the commercial classes agreed to its necessity. The debate was subsequently
Instant.
in deck-houses and skylights. The wind for a in consequence of the defendants not shipping adjourned till the 1th PARIS, June thi
spoil my vestments," And thus, all unsuspecting, he found himself installed in the grand-chuir, the red parasol carried in front, crowds of Chritians, some of whom had come 200 and 300 7, escorting him. And great then was the the Board of Directors of the Indo-Chinn Steam the very heathen pronounced it as its "or The following is the seventh annual report of ring of crackers,, as for days afterwards, till Navigation Company, Limited, presented to the shareholders at the eighth ordinary general faoin fchang for some time past for the dragon real jolly. But altogether it has been h meeting, held in the Cannon Street Hotel, boats have been out contending with one another:
to the proprietors their Report and Statement of waist, sitting in a beat that in part of its length. London, on Friday, the 31st day of May, 1889 day after day. The ment have a very Poly- The Board of Directors beg to submit herewith sealan air, so many of them naked to the Accounts for the year 1888.
bardly shews above the water, and padding. the Choy Sang has now been added to a flag like the most frantic of Army signallers, The fleet of steamers has been maintained furiously with tiny paddles, a man beating a as uuel in a state of full efficiency, and druir at the stern, another standing and waving the list, having commenced her duties on the and all sympathising friends, letting off crackers coast of China in the month of June last. Most and waving flags as, the dragon boat passed, unfortunately the Lee Sang was totally lost in Each division of the town had its boat with a July, a few miles from Port Arthur, in the Gulf different coloured flag, and after a few days the of Pechill, and being one of the Company's red flags appeared in black blouses with two red newest and best, boats, her absence caused a good deal of inconvenience,
sashes one over each shoulder, and the other. Considerable boats decked themselves with their colours, ke expense was also incurred in efforts to get her The men of Queichow looked about the most off the rocks, which at first were regarded with savage in a small bost, that did not join in the some hopefulness; but bad weather having regular races, but went in and out just as it supervened, the result of the attempt proved pleased paddling and drumming and shrieking. entirely unaccesful. The vessel was covered The biggest boat pad fifty men in it, eight stand. in the Company's Underwriting Account, upon ing rowing with thele paddles and five or six which the loss accordingly falls. Het more men standing, besides the long double row the Ler Sang, and contracted with Mesars. Hall, with strokes that echoed from one side of the river The Board took prompt measures for replacing of bessshed men pounding the water furiously, Russell & Co. of Aberdeen, for the contruction to the other. It is a long time since there has been of a new steamer, to be named the Yen Sang, mich dragon festival at Jchange and everyone which it is expected will be launched in June, seemed to turnout to see it. Thea ver was crowded Since then it has been represented to them: little tables with tea and cakes, or where women and will be ready for sea in July.allocate with every kind of boat, where men sat round by the General Managers that with the general smiled in all the bravery, of isele vory bee