CHOLERA was raging in various parts of Tonquin at the date of last advices. It has proved destructive amone ike native population, and has cauled off officers and men amongst the French troops.
As argards the reported polipning of Mis. Percy Stepheps, the Pisang Gazetis states, on official anthoilly, that the Govern- | 2 ment Analyst has found no traces of:polso0. It seems clear that her death arose from natural cavičs,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896.
AT Singapore, recently, a Bengill milk-seller | bar plenty of room, and ́lą, moreover, a far more was fixed $100 für selilog adultersted milk. The | comfortable ship between-décks for a hat climate, analysis showed 47 per cent, of added water. There are many other uses to which the Tamar could be pot, particularly in view of the incress- ing importance of our naval strength in the Far East.
The following farewell · order has been promulgated by Lieutenant-Colonel Welby, M.P., on resigning the command of the Royal Scots Grejs at Aldershot "Officers, Non commissioned officers, and. p.ivate Dragoons, After four years in command and twenty years service in the regiment, it is my palaful daly to bid farewell, beartily and miscerely thank all ranks for most cordial help in maintaining our high reputation. During my ferm`of command great honour has been conferred on the regiment by the appointment to Colonel-lo. Chief of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Rusia. It has been my slagular good fortune, as representing the regiment, twice to visli❘ Ruila and cojoy the magnificent hospitality of our Colonel-in-Chief. Amid the pain of saying farewell, it is a pleasure to feel that I hand over the regiment to one who has passed all his service in the regiment, and who has its Interests most thoroughly at heart. It has been my happy duty to uphold the 'great name of the regiment. It will ever be my prand boast that I have been Colonel of the Greys, Grod-bye to all. Good luck, wherever duty calls them, to Scotland's Greys
Tadvertisement as the agih July announcing the death of Mrs. Gagging arose from Messrs. Gagglo mlaunderstanding telegram. They have sloce received another telegram announc Ing that Min. Gaggino is improving—Straits Free Press.
Ar the debenture-holders' meeting of the Manila Rallway Company In London the other day wilting policy was adopted, pending the decision on the legal dispute as to the payment of interest on the "B" Prior Lien Bonds before that on the debenture deb',
THR Aberden Journal, whose fles go back for a period of close on one hundred and filty yests, bas begun series of extracts from the Journal published a century ARO. 'éxtracts are of a mis: ellaneous character-local, political, and gene.sk, and will no doubt be widely read by Aberdoalabr.
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NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL,
LONDON, Jaly.roth. The Emperor and Empress of Russia mide ibelt entry Into St Petersburg on 4th insta
Sir Alfred Dest, K.C.M.G., was married yes terday to Mtis:Margaret Alid, daughter of Mr.
Charles Aled, of Exithaarne,
The lif of Colonel North has been proved, the net value of the personal estate belog sword at £163.866.
Racing on the Clyde yesterday, the Prince of Wiles's Britannia beat the German Emperor's Meteor on time allowance, after an exciting race, Sir John Peñder died on, yih fast. al, Foote Chy Place, Rent The Immediate care of death was paralytis.
The members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Corps of Boston, Massachusetts, “are now on a vialt to the parent organisation, the Honourable Arilliery Company of London.
After a cricket match which will be memorable for a brillant exhibitina of batting on the third day, Oxford, st Lord's, defeated Cambridge by four wickets.
It is now definitely stated that at the conclusion of the maneuvres the vessels engaged, over 100 «In all, Will karemble at Spithead, where they will be inspected by Li Hong-chang on Angust 201k. The Queen he sent to and a portrait of bersell in a Mrs. Kereth, of Garrow, St. Breward, Cornwall, who has seven sons at present serving In the army, and all of exemplary character,
The German Asiatic Bank has held it annual meeting at Berlin. A dividend of 8 per cent, is to be pild on the called up capital.
Two We-tryan young ladies, Miss Hellier, of Leeds, and Miss Cannington, of Liverpool, are about to proceed to Wachang, Chion, under the auspices of the Wesleyan Misionary Society,
At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Colonial In-tlive, held on the 7th Inst., Mr. Ewen Cameron was elected a Fellow,
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"The Apotheosis of Russia" is forcibly dealt with in the July 'number of Blackwood. The ceaseless and pauseless advance on all her
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prove dosbiful there can be no question me to its on their journey to the count,, will ha brought to cast The Russian ruler would always find the | the Tonquin port of Hai-phoog fær something policy congealel which asifgued the position of | like one pound sterling per ton. After a long a dependant to the occupant of the _Dragon | Kerlen of troubles and disappointments, there- Throne, but I would he an undeserved, refisc. fore, to say nothing of the heavy cist in- tion on Li Hong-chang's natuteness to suggest cured to the State, It really leoka as Il that he does not see that the protection of Russia | France is at last about to resp some profit- from is as bumiliating and far more perllous for his its Cochin-Chinese enterprise. The trade of country than the loss of a campaign with an one aritmo Tonqala ports' must necessarily in. undisguised antagonist like Japan,
Crese; partly at the éxj 2010 of certain ports lo Mr. Roulger very correctly states it is Russia's China; but the ocean-carrying trade in con- game to wake Chiwa weak; it should therefore actions with south-west China must grow greates an greater when simulated by the new be our aim to make her strong. The difficulty French rallway. Whether the French flug will that anyone would bare la organising an army be able to take all the extra profit ailelog from would be in getting the authorities to give over the increased traffic is, however, doubtful, al- the amount of control necessary to bring any though it is certain great efforts will be made to
secure it.—Fairplay, organisation even within view of success. We know what happened with. Admiral. Lang and the Chinese flet. There is no guarantee that this disgraceful exhibition of revolting ingratitude would not be repeated.
FORMOSA SPECIAL COURT REGULATIONS.
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, 32nd July. The marriage of the Princess Maud of Wales was duly solamaized to-day. The scene at Rockingham Palace 'Chapel was 'most brilliant. All the members of the royal family were pre- | sent, besides many foreign gueal. The Piloce of Wales presided at the breakfast, at which the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Mr, and Mrs. Gladstone, and Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain were present.
CALCUTTA, July 23rd. The result of the 3 per cent, rupee loan wES follows: The minimum rate of 103 78 only received ag per cent, of the amount applied for at that rate. The average rate was R103 in 101p. The tenders for the four crores amounted to over twelve crores, of which three and three- quarters were from Bombay and Madras, and the remainder la Calcatta. Ils reported that the bulk of the loan bis been taken on Landen accovat.
LONDON, Jaly ́azıd.
July 24th.
Amoy, August 5th, The Government of Taiwan has found it necessary to appoint. Special Cowt with a view to examine the cases in connection with the present Rebellion. The Regulations baro been published. They provide that the Court shall be insiltaled with five jalges appainted from among those of the Supreme Court wal. the Court of Appeal and shall be opened at any place where the Governor-General of Taiwan sball find convenient whenever crimes have been neighbours is freely dliated on, and it is caustic committed with a view (1) to upset the Govern. ment, to arbitrailly occupy the land, or to ally suggested that her need for an opening is the
| disturb the law and regulations; (1) to sopore Pacific is not begotten of a glut of merchandise the administratiin; (3) to endanger high officials; seeking ontlet at Vladivostock. Like Turkey and or (a) when crimes bare heen commited calcu
At a dinner given by the South Africa Asocia- lated to cause diplomatic complications.
tion last night, at which the Marquis of Lorna Persla, it is asserted China has now found her
The Court has been opened of late at Chang-presided, His Lordship, lo toasting the prosperity asylum in Russia's hospitable bösein, whilst the wha, where the inquiry is going on in connec»
of South Africa, sald be believed that the British corrupt administration of Peking offers as fatal ation with the cases of a number of prisoners before long would be as much the masters of
| the Zambisl as the masters of the Nile, field for secret service money as Turkey. The concerned to the prereat rebellion. wrlier moves on to the point that "as the centre of civilisation and trade moved from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, so even in our day It will begin to swing towards the Pacific. The growth of Austrails and New Zealand, the development of the" western cost of North America consequent on the trans continental illways, the rise of Japan, and the completer exploitation of China and the East Indies, all are throwing an increasing proportion of the world's weight into the Pacific. The completion of the Siberian Railway and the construction of the Central American Canal will spin round the wheels of progress more swiftly still," It is the Bifilsh who will suffer by the colossal strides of Rusla, and the writer ssks what we should do in the following words-
What, thes, do we want? We want above all a new Exstern policy and a definite one—such * policy up is pigeon-holed in the bureaux of St. Petersburg. We bare cast China overboard; we might ballast the sblɔ with Japan. We talk of Japan as a friendly Power, and even as an ally, but with what warrant ? Inarmuch as we pat na pressure on ker to abandon her Chinese The Echo de Paris announces the engage. conquests, and were the first Western Power to ment of the Duc d'Oriesas, the French Pre-rec-galse her adolescence by compromising the tender, to Princess of the Austrian Imperial
family, the Archduchers Marie Dorothy Amelia, his first counts once removed.
Mr. Kimpp, at Essen, the so-called "cannon king," has devoted m.foo.com for the building of a new hospital for his labourers, which is tö be provided with all the newest improvements to volence.
The Queen has been pleased to anprove the a pointment of. Mr. Francis William Maclean. QC., to be Chief Justice of the High Court at Chicaite, in seccession to Sir W. Comer Petheram, whose lesuie of the office ceases by❘ hli resignation on Nov. 18: next
It is proposed by many influential members of the theatrical profesilos that the memorial to Sir Augurus Harris should be an enlargement of the Actors' Orphanage—a gracious memento which would well accord with the deceased's kirdiness and generosity,
Yesterday the German Emperor's yacht
Meleor made her first appearance on the Clyde, at the Regalia of the Royal Largo Clob.” In varying brerass the big race resolved half fato match between Miior and the Prince of Water's Britannia. The latter was ahead on the first round, but fost ber head way stterwards apon time allowance she was, however, declared the winner by seconds.
32 The 8th inst. was Mr. Chamberlain's sixileib birthday. The Colonial Secretary was born in London, as he has several times stated, and though Birmingham history is closely identified with his career, his loyalty' to his nailve city bas undergone no change. Hardly any other publle man aged sixty looks an youthful as Mr. Chambesisid, and this despite a sirendous labour
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that she harbours less resentment towards ns than towards Russie, But we have done
nothing for her; on the contrary we have made a logolar exbibition of Impotence at the recent crisis of her national life, und auch a exhibition is apt to depreciate the value of the exhibitors' friendship.' If we are to ally with Japan, we must be prepared to fight for her it it is necessary. In some years she will command a navy which, with our own China squadron, could easily sweep the Pacific, while on laod she will dispose of hall-a-million trained men. Only, we want the aid of this force, we must not repeat the philful abandonment of the Chloess policy. In one word, Alliance or no Aillince we ought to be clear what we will Egbt for and what we will permit without fighting. I was this charity of purpose that gave Russia each one of her recent triumphs and it was just
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To contract this we should be ready to speak plainly and to follow words with blows, or, the article concludes, we shall see the grandson of Nicholas 11. saluted to the Kremlin by the Emperor of Chios and the tributary Princes of Rajputana and the Deccan," But we are not now ready to follow words with blows. Russia, on the contrary, is prepared to sirke blows Best and talk afterwards i
On finishing the laquiry at Changwha the Coust will be opened in other districts-Datly
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the hills, but will bulld foris round them,
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THE "DRUmmond casTLE" DISASTER.
Ir the soileres from Consumption, Scrofula and General. Dability will try Scott's Emulsion, of Pare Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, they' will find immediate relief and a permanent The following letter appears is the copy of bench. The Medical Profession in the various Fairplay received by the Mail to-day:—'
countries of the world universally declare it a remedy of the greatest value, and at tila very palatable. It can be readily taken by thu, most sensitive stomach, and will never fail to gira sellel and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist can supply it-Sole Agents for Hongkong and the Empire of China Watkins & Co., House
To the Editor of FAIRPLAY. Sir-Wah refrence to the loss of this abip Capt. Hampton, M.S.G., of the Royal Mall Steamer Ateera. has ropied to the Guild that he sighted the Drummond Castle off the coast of Portugal, and that after passing Cape Finisterra at 3 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, 16th Jane, be encountered vary thick rainy weather until 6 o'clock on the following morning, and I a was scross the Bay of 240 miles, he found bis ship had been set to the Partward no less' than 15 miles. The Drummond Costle was lost at this time, and there'seems like doubt that this abnormal Inset was, together with the silence
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Intimations.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HANKING CORPORATION.
at the log areal on ebant, wholly responsible NOTICE
for the disaster. With regard to the statement of the master of the . Werfs that he saw A vessel which he supposed was the Drummond Castle crossing his stern, zad therefore steering on a dangerous course, it is open to very grave doubt as to whether such a public statement was justidable. In the first place, it might have been a steamer brand Into Brest, and not the Drummond Castle at all, and even if it wa that unfortunate ship, the fact of her crossing the conrea of the Warfa was no proof that hự course was a dangerous one; the one ship was bound to the English Channel and the other to the Bristol Channel, and starting from a point near Ushant the courses to these places are very different. I trust that this platement was not made by the master of the Werfa merely to obtain notoriety at the 'expense of his brother shipmaster. It would be well if our Government would require that the lights and fog signala on foreign coasts should be properly attended to. We have asked that fog signal should be placed ou Cape St. Vincent, but nothing seems to have been done in the matter. There will be a dreadful disaster there next.
Yours truly
JOHN G. MOORE,
Hon. Secretary'.
The Merchant Service Galld, Liverpool, Jan. 27ih 1895.
[No one doubts that there is an laset cuiront in
OTICE is hereby given that, the HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS la Ikla CORFORATION will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkeng, on SATURDAY, the Fifteenth day of August next, at Noow, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts to goth June, 1895.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 18th July, thoń,
[1195 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE is hereby given, that (ke REGISTERS OF SHARES of ike CORPORATION will be CLOSED from SATUR.
DAY, the First to the Fificenth day of August mext (both days inclusive), during which period no TRANSFER OF SHARES can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 28th July, 1806.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY LIMITED,
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET.
TING of SHAREHOLERS all be held in
-the dir-ction spoken of by Capl, Hampson ; the | the OFFICES of the COMPANY No. 14, Praya point to that Captain Hampson made sufficient | Central, on MONDAY, the 24th August, at 3 Allowance for this current, and the captain of | o'clock P.M.. for the purpose of receiving the the Drummond Castle did not.—Ed. Fair- | Report of the Directors and the Statement of play.]
Accozete to the gath June. 1896.
*SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE:
American (City of Peking) 8th Inst. “Indian and Straits (Kuizang) 11th Inst.
American (Doría) 14th inst. Tacoma (Braemar) xgih inst.. Canadian (Empress of India) 25th fait. -American (China) 25th fast.
Tacoma (Tacoma) myth (aut.
The burning political question of the day lo Canada when the mall left was the resignation of the Tory cabinet, headed by the Premier, Sit Charles Tapper, and the formation of a Liberal exchanges are evidently strongly Liberal, as Government by Hon. Wilfred Laurler. 'Our they accuse the outgoing Government of laciaasing the taxation for political purposes, of famenting the racial prejudices of the Colonists, Premier Topper resigned on the roth July and and of gross political trends and corruption. his successor was sworn in on the 11th, Daming the fallowing cabinet the next day:-President of the Connell, Hon. Wilfrid Laurież. Minister of Trade and Commerce. Sir Richard Cartwright. Minister of Justice, Sie Oliver słował. Minister of Floance, Premier Fielding. Minister of Militia, Dr. Borden. Minister of Marios and sherles L. H. Davies. Minister of Public Works, J. I. Tarte. Minister of Railways and Canal, G. H. Blair, Minister of Agriculture, Sydney Fisher. Postmaster-General, W. Malock. Controller of Customs, W. Palemon Controller of Inland Revenge, Sir Hend Joly. Secretary of Fitzpatrick. The Interior Department is left malls, etc., from San Francisco to the 21st alto. State, R. W. Scott Sallelior-General, Char. | THE 0. &0. S. S, Ca's steamer Doric, with
vacant for the present. Without portfello, C. A. | bas arrived at Yokohame, and will leave for Geoffrion and R. R. Dobell
this port, via Nagarski, lo-morrow morning,
The nomination of Mr. Bryan of Nebraska as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States was totally unlooked for. Until the Convention met in Chicago his name had never been mentioned, but by his speeches while the Convention was considering the platforms he szemed to strike a popular chord, and by a sudden Impulse he was carried forward, He received the two-thirds vote required for nomination on the fifth ballot. An exchange says of him and ble chances of election:-Re is, of course, a " silver man” clean through, ready to endorse the whole platform of the Convention. Judglag from the fact that he endeavoured to have the Populist 18os of initiative and referendum tacked as to the platform, Mr. Bryan must have party. In that case his nomination by the Chicago been more or less closely allied with the Popullit
Convention must be looked upon as another bid for the Populist vote. With a silver platform and a Populist-liver ticket the democrats may reasonably expect to capture a considerable Republican Tois la the West, while the South will remain as “solid "as ever. Whether the gains will upset the Eastern vote sure to be driven off by the aliver victory in a question that the future must be left to settle. As Vica- President on the same ticket, Arthur Sewell, a plnent ship-builder of Maine, has been no- micated, this being done to placato as far as poreible the Eastern vote.
Tax Indo-China Co.'s steamship Kutiang, from Calcutta and the Straits, last Singapore for this port at 6 pm, on the 4th inst.
Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer We are informed by the Agents of the Austrian Medusa left Singapore yesterday for this port
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company be CLOSED from the roth to the 24th August, both days Inclusive,
By order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I, ROSE,
Secretary.
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THE HONGKONG. CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE DIVIDEND at the Rate of 8 FER CENT, 07 $1.20 PER SHARE, DECLARED at the Ordinary Hall-yearly Meeting of Share holders held. This Day will be PAYABLE st the HONGKONG AND SHANOHAY BAWRINO CORPORATION on and after SATURDAY, 1m August, 1896.
SHAREHOLDERS are requested to apply to the OFFICE of the COMPANY fó: WARRANTS.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD,
Hongkong, 31st July, 1896.
Secretary.
THE EASTERN|T HE GREAT EXTENSION. NORTHERN AUSTRALASIA
& CHINA TELE- GRAPH CO., LD
TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF COPENHAGEN.
HONGKONG STATION.
FURTHUR REVISION OF TARIFFS.
WING to the continued depreciation of Silver, and to the fact that the Companies" outpayments to other Telegraph Administra toes, for further transmission of Telegrams | beyond their own systems in the East, are Exod In Gold, the CHARGES for TELEGRAMS to EUROPE and AMERICA will be collected at the Companies' Station in Chion at the following rate per word `an and after the First of Angut
next
To EUROPE (RUSSIA excepted) ...$2.75 CALIFORNIA musasimum 3051 ILLINOIS
NEW YORK ********..................... 3.37%. Lokalov 3.25 From the same date the following “Locat RATES will come into force :--
HONGKONG TO SHANGHAI ...$0.40° HONGKONG TO AMOY AND
FOOCHOW...mmm 0.20 Other Rates can be learned on application.
J. H. BECK,
THE BACK-DOOR OF CHINA.
LONDON, July 9th, France has at last secured the right of entry Into China by the back way. She has had this object to view for a long time past; there cap be no doubt it was the ruling idea which moved her in the conquest of Tonquin; and she has the shape of a treaty recently signed which now obtained the key to this back entrance in grants to the Firer-Lille Ironfounding Company, of Fives, near Lille, a concession for making a away from Leng-son to Long-chen, in South. and this first step towards the goal having been West China, "C'est le premier pas qui coûte," successfully got over, these will probably be no serious bladrance to the develop ment of the great French scheme, which cannot fall to be fralifal of very lm: ortant results, and, combined with the lapping of North China by racans of the Russian trans-Siberian Railway, It is quite Bikely to inaugurate some now and interesting features in the trade between Europe Franco-Chinese treaty and the Chinese Empire. By the new France has scquired the right to extend the Toaquin Railway Into the heart of the Southern.. Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Kweficheu, Kuang-al, privileges and advantages, and the Chamber of and Kwang hay together with other
Commerce of Lyons, taking time by the fore- despatched a "commercial exploring com lock, even before the treaty was signed,
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China with the object of "investigating, the productions and resources of the country, the requirements of and possible trade outlets in the rich southern provinces of Yun-nan, Kuang.al, Kweltches, etc., sud of studying the means of diverting the trade with these provinces from Shanghal, and directing it | through Tonqula." This mission was sent offlist autumn, at the moment whes the great Rusto- Chinere loan had been led so bountifully with French capital, when the Fives-Lille Company was making all possible efforts to obtals the concession just granted to it, and when French and Russian capital had established the Franco- Russian Bank of Chlon. The French were a good deal sneered at at the time for the alacrity they showed in taking up the Russo-Chinese loan of 400,000,000 francs in gold; but the sacers were misplaced; they had a great object in view, and this abject appears to be on the point of being attained. The following are some of the principal privileges and advantages secorded to France by the new treaty with Chins, In addition to the right to run a railway from Laog-son to Lung-takes, of Dong-dang ("the door of China"):-Establishment of consular post at Tieng-hen; opening of the town of Lon-choo is the province of Kuang-a, to the north of Lang-on, to Franco-Tonkinese and Li Hang-chang is the subject of an article in the Annamite trade; opening of the port of Hok-hu Jaly number of the Contemporary from the pen with the privilege of setting up a consular post
The Chinese question appears to have reached of Mr. Demetrias C. Boulger. It really deals with Me-kong and Nam-te, 310 miles north-west of meeting to consider the subject was held on the
there apealag up of Chomas, between the an xente stage in Vancouver, where a mais what is essential to regensiaté China, the only Luang Prabang in Tongain; the sight to navigate 6th Jane, Speeches were made showing that person to undertake which task in presumed to the rivers Lao and Mekong: the right to use the law prohibiting the employment of Chinese be Li Hong-chang. Mr. Beniger has much to the so-called Mandarin highways the reduction underground was connantly being dinegard McD say, but he is, as the Z. &a C. Express asseZİN,
af toils; and the priority of mining concessions and that as a consequence white miners were Nanyang... quite wrong in stating that Li's" present journey in the provinces of Ewing-tung, Kuang.sl, and everywhere being replaced by Chinese. The Strathailan........... is a "mission for the purpose of foaugurating a
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importation of Japanese was alsa objected to us Reina Cotillas m The great importance of such a line of prejudicial to the interests of the labouring Howa system of reforms"in China. His mission was rallway as that conceded to the Fives-Lille classes. Among the reasons adduced agafast Wandering Jowa to represent the Chinese Government at the Company may be shortly expialand as follows, the Chinese were that they introduced the evils Aridi .......... Coronation of the Tsat and to sign the Stered Up to the present the three wealthy and flourish of immorality, palygamy, gambling, the oplem
ing southern provinces of China, vis,, Kuang-4, habit, and other evil. The remedy proposed was Shoning.......... Compact, and he went fargely because Count Yüa-nan, and Kwei-tehow, have had no other that the tax levied on each Chinaman entering Cassialand bis Government "invited him. On the communication with the coast than by scans of the country should be increased from 350 to question af reforms for China Mr Houlger rightly thren long and difficult trade-zootos ; the time $500. A series of resolutions passed by the places in the forefront drastic treatment for the taken to pass over the first of these routes, meating was forwarded to the Lieutenant censos and literary clausen, Havlagclearedthem for part of the distance, is three months be given official endorsement and support.
although the Yang-tse-klang river le atillaed Governor-in-Concell with the request that they away the power of the Viceroys should be clipped, and a half, and the cost of transport is about
A telegram from Mobile, Ala., dated the 7th indeed, the posts abollshed, and only Futals £10 per ton; the second roule, vid the Jaly, "states -The Italian brig Diadem, the
The Vancouver Nomi-Advertiser of the 4th appointed, and the capital removed from its proof time, and the cost of transport by this yoss Ludvig were blown ashore at Pensacola 1,533 tons, Capt. McDonald, arrived yesterday Canton river as far as Pong, takes two months Swedish bark Sova, and the Norwegian bark July says:-The British ship Camourdson, It is proposed to erect in Londen a terrestrial seat alte, Nanking was suggested by Gordon in globe on a scale of 1.900,00.h of nature, 1880. The present writer prefars Hankow as
£6 to 8 the third and shortest route Bay yesterday during the storm. The wind afternoon from Jars with a full cargo of raw Is that from the port of Pak-hot to Nam-ning-foo blew from the north-east at a force of ya mlios sugar for the B. C. Refinery. As was noted globe having a diameter of eighty-four feet, and eight miles to the inch. At Paris, in 1889, of a waterway from the sea to its very sales Notwithstanding this difficult and dear transport, being the centre of the storm, The Merchants' as no vessel bad sighted her since leaving Java showing the earth's surface on a scale of about farther from hostle Powers, while "the existence on the Siklang, and transport by this an hour, then changed to the north-weet and in the News-Advertizar some days in route takes four weeks, and costs Lia per ton, blew at the rate of too miles per hour, Pensacola the Cowsbwadoon had been given up as lost, globe was exhibited, but this one will be double would leave the administration open to those however, the annual value of the goods trafic Hetal on Pala Fox Street, the Methodist Church, on January and last. Her voyage lasted "189 the diameter, and upon it every geographical external infidences to which Chins has hitherto of the three provisces is estimated at four rallions and nearly every business house were unroofed. days and was accounted for by prolonged calma feature of importance will be shown and named, as will king be every city or town having 5,000 been so opposed". From Haskowa railway starling; a good idea may therefore be formed The streets were made impassable by falling and light winds; in fact, she sailed on one tack THE Inhabitants, besides a large selection of others would be made to Canton. As to China's of the enormous trade which might be done trees. No street cars are running and all the for 98 days. During the voyage two ren died, with a smaller population. The larger cities †dalensīva pieparations, the creation of a mów
with this corner of the Chinese Empire ! quicker wires are down, the nearest telegraph station one from lung trouble and the other from bars and better communications were available. The that ir fouling being Flamaton. will be drawn to scale. London wili on it cover fleet la deprecated. China would be "only wast part of Holophong in Tongain is already con- cols and Atlantic division of the Louisvilfe and Cambusdoon is a trim looking cran, and the The Pentabel ; another man is also sick of scurvy. The space rather larger than that of a penny.
ing her resources and providing spoil for bar nected with Tha-lang-tching on the Lang-son Nashville Raliroad is washed out in many places. present is her first voyage. enemies, as no fiset that she can create within Raliway, by means of a canal sixty-two miles The damage is faily $250,000. the next ten years the extreme limit within soon be running as far as Dong-dang, which is of nala:-One of the most important bills before Iong, and from Lang-son, the locomotive will The following, from Berlin July 13th, is worthy which it will be possible to maintain peace in only twenty-eight miles from Lung tchow. This the Reichstag this fall will be a messure to the Far East-would have any chance of success last-mentioned town is the central paint of the authorise the building of railroads in the German 30th June-Palaurus, 3rd July-Court, DUTWARD-16th Juan-Malacca, Teenkal. Amongst the successful candidates at the against even the weakest of her possible oppon-way which the Fives-Lille Company has under of several small railroads in German South Agiata, Glenaven, Chasse, 17th JulyOolongs south-western provinces of China, and the rail-colonies of Africa. It provides for the building Tera Maru. 7th July-Flintshire, 14th July- recent examination of officers for promotion at stations abroad was Lieut. Rowcroft, E. C., of ents." An army and up-to-date military organ- taken to build is intended, as far as possible, to west Africa, and they will be bat enitely by Sydney, Tencer Dardanut. Leander, alt ..the Hongkong Regiment, being distinguished in isation are wanted.
divert the enormous trade movement of these British capitalists. The bill also provides for the July Kriemhid, Agadanthus, 24sh__July- military topography.
To put the matter brutally but unmistakably, provinces through Tonquin, The laying-down of construction of a big road in German Erst Africa, Canton 28th July Bewonflick, Glaucus. There is considerable wisdom, states a contem China is helpless, and so long as she remains so the railway will also tend to render the northern from Dar->Salem and Bagamoyo, vía Tabora, 31st July-Mogul, Pingsuty, 'Wannington porary, in the suggestion that the Malabar shall will have to anbelt to any indignity that may be portion of the French Protectorals more secure, to Laker Victoria and Tanganyika; sitogsiker Hall, 4th August Bay Breconshire, be sent to Hongkong instead of the Tamar to offered her. She can, of course, pocure the as the land pirates and Black Flags will be about 1800 kilometres. A syndicate has been Octantin, Gerda, Trens, Quien Olga, Idaund replace the old Victor Emanuel as depot ship protection of Bussin, followed for a time by the pushed farther and farther away from civillas formed by the Deutsche Bank, the German East Mars, Dorothem. The Tamar is too small for the purpose, and other members of that strange Bar-Tenton- tion, and on its completion the products of south African Co, and the Colonial Department to raise will not have much accommodation to apare for Gallie Triple Alliance, but while the efficacy of was Chios, lastend of being waddled with a tha : 1,000 000 marks, esquiaid Tue: Lespite sith July@Bellidi, Derdegna, zin [úly== HOMEWARD Bash July-Caledenten, Byron ruperazmerariae, while the erindian trooper i that protection inigli in curtala eventualities | freight charge of wight to twaive pounds sterling | guarantees the Intersat,
and twenty years spent in Parliament.
Another farly has been added to the peerage, Mrs. Eveleen Smith, wile of James Maclaren Smith, of The Hollers, South Kensington, has satisfactorily catablished her claim to bo Baro neas Gray in the Ferrage of Scotland. At the Inquiry before the Committee for Privileges in the House of Lords it was stated that the Barony of Gray Wands third of the Barons or Lords of Parliament on the Union Roll of the Feerage of Scotland, and was created in or bulare $445.
Laid Salisbury is expected to take up his residence at Walmer Castle, the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Claque Ports, at the and of the present month, "Preparations (a Dover correspondent says) are slready being made for the installation, The Prime Minister, Parliamentary correspondent learns, bas defialie- ly fixed Saturday, Ang. 15th, as the day on which he will visit Dover to be invested with the Lord Wardenship.
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