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Jane zgth. The news of the Camperdown-Victoria disas ler has caused feeling of intense public grief throughout the United Kingoom,
Messages of sympathy have been received by her Majesty the Queen from all the foreign
Powers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1893.
occasion have often been commented on but not until t-day could the extraordinary accuracy of bis predictions be fully realized. The foregoing form bet the concluding sentences of the article but they contain evidence that the writer of them possesses a keener insight into what is really the all-absorbing question of the day, than has been displayed by any other man in
The cholera epidemic at Mecca is increasing In virulence, the dally death rate having now | Chloa. reached two hundred,
A falsu alarm of fire in a church at MonCOW, during the holding of service, caused a panic which resulted in 136 persons being crushed to death
Terrific forest free have occurred in Mlone- sota, America, resulting in enormous destruction of property and lots of life. Foor large towns have been consumed.
Sarah Bernhardi has been robbed of £13,000 -worth of jewellery at Valparaiso,
The Midland Raway Company, Western Auxiraila, is attempting to flost a loan of half a million in the London market, security being in the form of four per cent, debentures.,
Six Banks in California have suspended pay The Australlaos have defeated, the Players of England with fx wickets to spare.
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In their match with: Kent the Australians secured a one-innings victory.
Vice Admiral Erskine will probably succeed Admiral Tryon la command of the Mediterra- Bein fleet, 4.
GREAT FIRE IN SINGAPORE.
A BLOCK OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED..
·FOOCHOW NOTES.
Foochow, July 8tb, 1893.
It is reported that business is pretty brisk mongst the natives in the city just now 'owing to the approaching Ifterary examinations.
The price of cotton yarn which was lately quoted 294 per bals bas eleen to $87 to $88 per hale. Piece goods have likewise advanced in price
and we understand there is a good demand at the same time at the advance.
The province of Fukien is required this year receipts. A first instalment of Tis. 50.000 is now to send to Peking Tis: 150,000 from Its salt tax being remitted by mercantile bills in charge of an officer from Forchow,
His Excellency the Provincial Treasurer posted a notice requesting the principals of the Yameni to send him forthwith the accounts of the salaries and other expenses. In their severs! official extablishments, as he desires to forward them at as early a date as possible to Peklog
A fortnight age wo reported the failure of a small native bank and the subsequent total
to above,
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out for this very purpose. The native authorit! set as if they considered foreigners have no such right-in these parts at all events and the foreign Consa's, although always doing the best they can for their rationals, will few of them commit themselves to a favourable opinion It would be, well if our on the subject. Ministers could have this-matter defi¬ltely settled one way or another. Surely they will siever allow the wide adoption of this plan of actiling such questions It fo perlous and solemn thing when a man receives a fortnight's notion to quit his residence, and because he is got cat of it when the time is up, is ejected from It, and from the world, by means of the crualest death that heathen ingenuity can devise
A native friend who has just come in from Sangpu reports that he saw the bodies on Sun- day evening, still lying where they fell, stark vahed and without even the mat with which they were credited yesterday. He says they were swollen to an Immense sise, and no one was pay- ing them any attention, nor hed the na:Ive author, itles, up to that date, taken the slightest notice of true statement, and probably would be found to the matter. I have no doubt but this is a perfectly be true of this very moment. We live in serious me; all these things mean much.-N. C. Daily News.
CHINKIANG.
(FROM A CORRESPONDINT).
July 5th.
or two seta ma right. Tum a coilier, and bavo workod at Woodland Colliery for over ten yours. If you think the publication of this letter might be of use to others, you are at liberty to make that use of it
*Yours truly,
*JONETH EASDALE. "Copley, Butterknowle, Durham,
*November 5th, 1801,"
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demolition of the building by the aggrieved creditors. Another bank failed last week, Chung One of the most disastrous fires Singapore Sung by name, with labilities estimated at seen for some time past took place last evening,000 to $10,nco and the premises shared the same fate as the Fok Lal bank, the one alluded says the Straits Times of the rat last, and resulted in a block of buildings and the stock therein of two of the business firms of the town being consumed, the bare walls left alone standing. The scene of the fire was in Battery Road and Flat Street, in the square block of buildings, two-storey high, used by Messrs. -MeAllster-and-Co-who-carry-on-a-large- business as ship chandlers, rail makers, and general merchante and whose stores are parif. tioned off by a brick wall from those of Messrs. William McKeon and Co., engaged 11 merchants. The front of these premises is in Battery 7 end, and are bounded on the one side by Fint Street, which extenda for xbrut eighty yards and terminates at the river side or Boat Quay. The buildings are bounded on the other side-McKerrows" section—by a Barrow passage, separating fortunately as will be seen from another larger and costlier blocking to the case and urged upon the magistrates mite me very much. of buildings. Had the flames seized this left the necessity of catching the thief, as such thefts are far too frequent. Officers, he states, are band block, as they continually threatened to do,
thing probably wou'd have saved that side of appointed to protect the citizens from such Battery Rod fran destenction, as the godowns outrases and he cannot but think they must be all more or less contain stock of an imflammable neglecting their duty. nature. The block destroyed extended in the direction of Bost Quay for about thirty yards, where it was at ded by a wall from the premises of Messis. E. and H Hinnekindt, merchant, of 1, Boat Quay and 2, Flint Street. To the thickness of this divisionary wall and to Its superior height, the firm of Hinnekind: one the salvation of their gadown. In fact it is due to the soildity of the walls of McAlister's premises which are now standing gaunt and black above the rulas, that the five was restricted to the one block, forming a Gerce burning crater stirred occasionally by loud reports, and which was not extinguished until everything within bad
On Monday evening 3rd July, a prisoner at this city was condemned to the death cage. He stole little girl about four months ago and sold her for $o, in Sherebon, in Anbal province. He then returned and offered to help her parents find her for the sum of $20. This they agreed to. He accompanied her father to Shenchru and pointed Another case of drowning has taken place out to him the house, but prudently kept out of this week. A little native of 4 or 5 years of sight when the child was sought for, and age was seen climblog on to the roof of a house demanded to be given up. On the owners boat as she was being moored alongside the refust g to surrender the child whom they bad Halkwan Jetty, The boat was
no sooner fawfully bought as they thought, the matter made fast then another lad, about 10 years was taken in the facials. This led to the dis-sosice to the contrary be given before 4PM,COMPRADORE older, jumped into the river covery that the seler, and the one helping to causing in his action the little fellow to lose his find her, were one and the same person. He was balance and tumble overboard and the poor promptly arrested and sent back to Chirkiang, child was drowned.
A bandle of jewellery, suid to be of $150 the scene of bis crime for trial. The ordinary pualshment for the crime of man-steallog is ine, was snatched from the hand of a native strangulation, I am told. The death cage is not women in broad daylight while walking through a frequented street in the diy last Monday, and recognised by Chinese law as a legal punish- the thief made off too promptly to be caughtment, and those who dle in it are reported, The occurence having been reported to the at this place. I have learned two things which a dying under punishment" as practised a proclamation referr Viceroy, he has lared
been consume.
The balldings were fully lasored is general offices. Mesurs, McAlister and Co, had policies for $80,000 on the contents; and there were, $17,000 for the building, and $4,000 for the rent Rone of this insurance will be borne by the local Insurance Company.
Mestre, McKerrow and Co, bad policies for about $70,000 also spread over different offices; there is included claims of $10,000 on the Straits Insurance Company,
THE KOLAO HUI REVOLT IN HUNAN.
The thunder-storm which brake over the set tessent between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon to many sitting in their offices with the telephone of Tuesday last was quite alarming particularly acting on its own account in sympathy with the lightning. At the central office they bad to give the apparatus's wide borth, and extensive repairs were needed subsequently. The house apposite Messrs. Fairburst & Co.'s hong was struck by the lightning but no great damage was done. A large tree near Kushan, said to be upwards of century old, was struck and split in halves, much to the discomfortare of the inhabitants of the neighbouring village,
It is many months since we have had a tiger in the sear neighbourhood, but one made its ap and carried off a native lad 15 years of age. pearance in the Loong Wang district last week The lad was accompanying his father in the early hours of the morning to a field which they were to plough, when the animal sprang upon them and carried off the son, of whom no trace has since been found. The Incident was noticed by mediately left their work and ran to the spot, but #griculturists in the distance who im. they arrived too late to render assistance, the boy had been carried off and the old man lay dead, killed, it was supposed, by fright, us no braises were found on him.-Echo.
some
HANKOW.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
.. July 4th.
1.
It is ronaldered by the people to be the mildest mode of punishment. This may be partly owing to the fact that at the end of the second or third day the official occasionally
relents and pardons the offender.
2nd. The criminal is not expected to starva to death. This I was under the impression was the death Intended. The cage-used-berely a fow, has a hole in it like a cangur. When a crimtas! feet square and six or seven feet high. The top is put in the cage this is fitted around his neck and he hangs by his head. But that death may be slow, ten or twelve bricks are placed under his feet. On the second day several of these bricks are removed, so that only with straightened fect car he fellere his head of his weight. On the third or fourth day all the bricks are taken away and be fe left to hang. At this functure, how ever, a plece of wood is mercifully thrust under his chiu in such a manner as to speedily strangle him. The man who was put out at 6 p.m. en Monday, yesterday at 4 p.m. in desperation speedily to end his misery. But hear that be kicked over bis pile of bricks, hoples thes
was still living at one o'clock this morning. It is to be hoped that death Küs ere this put an end to bis earthly misery.
Seasonable rains" have given one of the best fndigo crops that has birst the farmers also has been got in and is growing finely of this region for some years. The rice But there are great apprehensions of the locusts. on several days small swarms have passed over as. They have but to alight to change the now beautifully green rice fields into barren wastes. The hat weather has sa wilted us at The native officials at Shanghai have received
this little port that although yesterday was the telegraphic despatches from Wachang to the
"Glorious Fourth," no one was found patriotle effect that on the 7th of June last, nearly 4,000
enough to utter a "single "hurrah," fire ■ goo, Kolao Huls raised the standard of rebellion at a
or pop a cracker, much less attempt the reading mountain town belonging to the jurisdiction of
of the Declaration of Independence to a sleepy Lilinghsien, Hunan, their manifestoes calling
I hurried through my yesterday's letter in madience. Or possibly this silence was not upon the society men to revenge the death of
order to be in time to join the party about to wholly owing to the hot weather. It may be their chiefs, nearly filcen of whom have miscady proceed to Sungpu to recover the bodies of the that many who hall from the "Flowery Flag suffered at the hands of the governments of murdered missionaries, but here, four-and-Kingdom" feel that the feen said about the Langkiang and Hukaang, alone. Many of their twenty hours after, I am atfil. The Tactal, ca dosbiful honour the better.-N. C. Daily News. emissaries are also said to have arrived at being interviewed by the Consuls with regard to Ichang, which is a Hupeh centre, having been made so in order to be in touch with the Strangan escort to this party, replied that he. chuan Kolao Huis. This, says the N. C. Dally | News, donbiles explains the uneasiness that has been lately felt at Ichang. The provinces of Hunan, Hapeh and Szechuan form the het bed of the Kelso Hals who are using sach pamphle's as the rotorious Chou Han's for their purposes.
MONOMETALLISM.
could do nothing till he had seen the Viceroy- thus it was eleven o'clock beforn word was brought from him. This was to the effect that on no account would an escort be granted to foreigners to go to Sangpo. He world send himself and have the bodies brought back, bat any foreigner going would do so at his own risic. It was hard indeed to think of the mangled remains of our late friends as they lay in Songps, and of our own inability to render them the last but necessary attentions which the living can pay the dead." Just as, in like circum- stances, they would gladly have undertaken these for us, so there was many of us anxious to do so for them,' but what could we do ? Had we gone without the permission, and an escort so needful, we could have done nothing, even if we ever contrived to reach the place. Just as the great officials had denied as their help, so also would all the lower ones do, while the people, under these circumstances, would not dare to ald us in any way. It was
an old Scotch Psalm kept ringing in our ears
The bodies of thy servents they have cast forth to be ment Ta raynous fowls, thy dear Silots' flath thay gave to basats
to ent
Their blood about Jemzeniem, like wear they hawa shad,
dead.
And there was none to bury them when they were atin and
Sisca ancient days, this dirge has been song over many a martyred saint in many lands, and ence toore, with and hearts we raise it again in Central China,
day, as the result of fresh
WAS JACOB GROSS A FOOL?
I a' make one of a party of thirteen," he exclaimed;" some of us will be sure to die within a week."
Thas spoke barber Jacob Gross, of Batavia, on the 12th of November last. The cocasion was a dinner party. When the guests were all seated Gross notfoed that there were thirteen at table.
The others tried to laugh him ent of his superati toe, but he insisted that he would not eat as one of the company of thirteen. A fourteenth guest was therefore added to the number.
"Now we're malo," said Gross, and the festivities proceeded.
Grone boarded at a hotel in Batavis, Ten days later the hotel was bamed to the ground. The next morning the body of a man was found in the ruins. It was the body of barber Gross.
Now, this is a curious thing to happen, certainly s but fait more than that? Do you believe there is anything in the semmos nation that thirteen in
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of the work? As mooh buslass is done on the 18th of the month as on any other date, and on Friday
other On any week day. You wouldn't refuse to take thirteen eggs for a dozen if your grocer insisted on it, netther do you have more bad luck on Fridays than other day of the seven. No, no, lửa all any humbug and nonsense. Barber Grou's an perstition had nothing ander the man to do with his death. Besides, he dined as ons of fourteen parasts, not thirteen. Don't be silly.
Optional Cargo will go on to Shanghai unless
STEVEDORE
No claims will be admitted after the Goods SIT PROVISIONS, DUNNAGE, &C. have left the Godowns, and all claims must be
sent in to the Undersigned before Noon on the 18: Instant, or they will not be recognized,
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowas after the 19th instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Rongkong, zath July, 183
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"THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET.”: #One thing England might and could do, and there are people in India short-sighted enough to advocate it, and that would be to suspend free coinage of Silver in India, and by so doing occasion a scarelly of Rupees, and enhance their valac. But appreciation of the Ruper, so brought About, would have the same effect upon prices in India na the appreciation of Gold has upon prices in England, that is, cause larger quantities of produce to
be ffered in exchange for the hard, but could not be helped. The words of unlucky number? Or that Belday is an unlucky da❤ / Consignments of -BARTLETT SPRING Garden attached, Water and Gas laid on, Rupee, which means further decline in prices, and further cheapening of the value of labor. Capital, and the finances of the country might benefit by this, as it would be equivalent to establishing the currency of India on a Gold basis, vince Silver, inconve.Uble into coin, would be Taluable only for the purpose of adornment, and the Rupee would perform the functions of a shilling, that is be exchangable for very much more Silver than the coin itself contained. Demonellsing Silver in India, which suspension of free estrage of the Rapse amounts to, would representations on the part of the Consula, two Increase the Gold voice ofthe Rupee, and reduce of us are to be allowed to join the Viceroy's the interest India bas to pay England on her Gold party which leaves for Sungpu to-night. I have debt. Therefore taxailan could be reduced. The nothing fresh to add to my yesterday's letter nor Rupee belog appreciated in value, the price of will there be much to teli til we come back.
Today is the glorious Fourth, and if the commodities would depilce, and laborers could only convert the surplus product of their labor ganboats are decorated as if for a a great rejoicing: into a lesser quantity of coin, thus having less to We are having boat races on the water, and give in exchange for reduced taxation, and the sporta sahore, and as a community feel a gay necessaries or luxuries they desired. Produce can be. Time was when the report of a He says, "I had a fullness and tightness at the being cheaper, the material for manufacture massacre like this happening at out a bad id phost after moals, and such a disainees would seize would be cheaper, and manufacturers would also have thrown a damper over everything, but we me that I could sorely see. This was in the spring decline, and if the theory that high prices denote are now getting accustomed to talk about killing of 1887. I felt tired, dull, and heary, with a sinking prosperity holds good the 'reverse ought to foreigners, and do not mind it much, as long sensation at the stomach. My appetite was variable, ocene when prices are low, and demonetization the killers do not come too bear to be com.and I didn't know what to eat. In fact nothing COAL MERCHANTS, SHIP'S COMPRA- of Silver In India be an unmized evil. To fortable.
sed to suit ma. There was fealing of remove India by a stroke of the from the
pen
This that seems to have been eriglasted and and pain over the eyee and at the back of my head. I number of Sliver consuming countries, would put through in the usual way. First many false bocande very weak, and was with difficulty that be to throw one fourth more Sliver on the and malicious romours were set afloat, and kept on with my work. In this way I continued for Have for Sale a cargo of pure AKAIKI COAL
twelve months, during which time I saw a doctor markets of the world, and reduce the price at occasional placards posted of the old eye-gouging Silver to that extent, it would snake Gold 34 per was ready, the matter was finished off by a band by good, and I grew worse. In June, 1888, I read ence to 33 pence per sunce, or by depreciating and heart-dliging character. Then, when all and took various medicines, but none of them
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