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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1904.
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CAP". Whitelow of the strainer Affa, which † tend must remain distinctly American." arrived this morning from Shanghai, repons Mr. Whittier added that "the mock interest having seen three pirate junks off Kupchi Point, which the Belgians have acquired therein Tome twenty-five miles from Breaker Point. has on more effect upon the company's status than similar holding in the past in scores of other American corporation." To this the
A. S. WATSON & Co. Onlinary busnow communications should be addressed THE experiment of sending students abroad reply was made that of the 6,000 shares of the
WINE
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ESTABLISHED 1841,
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ST. JULIEN.
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Per Case Fe: Case 1 dor. Qis. a do Pts. ...$ 8.00 $ 9.00
10.00
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CHATEAU HAUT
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CHATEAU RAUZAN.... 48.00
CHATEAU LAFITE ...... 54.00
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for commercial education by the Japanese Department of Agriculture and Commerce has proved so successful that icis now proposed to send thirteen students every year to Europe, America, and China.
The Editor will not uralortake to be responsible for any rejostei MS.. nor to return any Contribution.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). DatzY-30 per annan. WEEKLY $13 per annum. ¡¡
A FIRM of Chinese painters have recovered The rates per quarter and per mensam, proportionn), from a building contracter the sum of $toz.5, The daily in defivered free when the address is
balance for due work done and material sup, acornible to mosanger. On copios sent by post anplied. The case was argued before the Puisne additional $1.80 por quatter in charged for postage. Judge this morning, when Mr. O, D. Thomson The portage on the weekly taua to any part of the represented the plaintiff, the Hop firm and
world is 80 cents per quarter.
Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared forthe contractor, Single Copies Daily, "ten costs; Weekly, twenty the Chau Wa Lung.
Hve Cents.
BIRTH.
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On the gath June, at Hospital, Yokohama (en route to U.S.A ), ADDIE GORDON BURKE, wife of Rev. W. B. Burke, of the Southern Methodist Mission of Shangbai.
MARRIAGE.
The date fixed for the opening of the Baikal Ring-Railway has had to be altered several times until it was fixed lately for September 28 next. Once again there is to be a potpone ment for a month, as the constructing on neers have found that at several points on the line it will be necessary to roof over the tack in order to protect it from falls of earth.
On the 28th ult, at the Cathedral of the 14.50 Good Shepherd, Singapore, by the Revd. H. Rivet, GEORGE GRIFFITH, only son of Gearge G. James of Surrey, England-10 MAY EVELYN, 22.00 only daughter of Inspector F. G. Bateman of By kind permission of Col. Iremonger and
Singapore, Weights and Measures Dept.
Officers the Band of the 33rd Burma Infatury will play the following programme at the Kowloon Hotel to-morrow evening
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The Hongkong Celegraph
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1904.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
March...... The Stars and Stripes for Ever "Suka Two stop...." Hiawatha ".......................
Moret Selection....." Three Little Malds "
.Ruben Song As der Weser ".....
Prestel Selection...." The Bells of New York "Kerker Valt...... A Greek Sláva "..
Sidney Jones Cake Walk." Jolly Negroes"
...Berger
ELEGRAMS
THE WAR.
BAYONET TO BAYONET
FIGHTING IN A FOG, “
Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, kindly communicates the following official tele
gra
company, 4,000 are directly held for the con mainder, the only important block of the trolling Belgian interests, and that of the re stock likely to remain in distinctively Ameri can" hands consists of the 600 shares standing in the name of JP Morgan & Co. I was
Tokio, 5th-July 3.45 P.m. further contended in our comments on Mr.
General Kuroki reports that, under a thick Whittier's letter, that it was absurd to pretend that a foreign stockholding interest in rail fog at dawn on the 4th instant, two battalions roads operated on American soil had a preof the Russian infantry attacked our outposts cisely comparable status to a smilar interest at Motienling, trying three times to take it in an American corporation chartered to con- by assault. After severe hand-to-hand fight struct a mi road in a foreign country, and claiming our outposts repulsed the enemy, and ing, as this corporation has already done, the pursued them 4 miles west. intervention of the strong arm of the United
Our side had 15 killed and 30 wounded, including one officer. The enemy left on the field 30 dead and go wounded.
DETAILS OF THE OPERATIONS,'
mob violence in that country, It was furt er States for the protection of its agents against argued that the change of status of the Ameri- can China Development Company, or at least of that phase of its enterprise represented by THE CAPTURE OF FENSHUILING, the construction of the Hankow-Canton tail. way, became a public question, because in ceasing to be distinctively American, and com ing under the management and control of representatives of the King of Belgium, the obligations to protect it must be held to pass to the Government in whose head or in whose subjects is vested the title..to a controlling majority of its stack,
It now appears in dispatches of an appar ently authoritative character from Washington that the United States Government has concluded to recognise the American China Development Company as a bórá-file Ame- rican concern, "notwithstanding the fact that a majority of the stockholders are Belgian." This at least disposes of Mr. Whittier's
these columns were not consistent with the facts, but it raises a further question as to what is to be gained by the, frank recognition
The Consul General for Japan, at Shang- hai, received full details of the fierce fight at Fenshuiling, a short account of which Mr. M. Noma kindly forwarded to us on Friday
last.
The official report of the Army landed at Takushan is as follows:-
The army landed at Takushan, forming three columns, commenced operations from the 26th June for occupying Fenshuiling.
The Asada Detachment was directed to the front of the enemy, the Komada Detach ment to the right flank of the enemy and the Marui-Detachment to the rear of the right of
theoth r columns which threatened gradually the enemy's retreat and was able to take the enemy's position.
The enemy which took position in front of the Asada Detachment was two battalions of infantry reserve of Yeniseiak. The enemy on Fenshuiling consists of the 21st Regiment of Sharpshooters, two battalions of infantry reserve of Irkutsk, the 7th regiment of Siberian Cossacks, half of the 1st Regiment of Walfredinsk; the and battalion of the Siberian Reserve Artillery, seven battalions of Gouchi infantry, nine companies of cavalry and two companies of artillery,
The enemy against the Tojo Detachment was three battalions of infantry reserve, the at Regiment of Machichinsk cavalry, a half of the 1st Regiment of Walfredinsk, the rst Company of Mounted Artillery of Zo Bai. kal and two machine guns, on the 26th June, but in the afternoon of the 17th three battalions of infantry and two companies of artillery were added to them:
THE RECEPHON AT THE CATHOLIC UNION,
A reception was held last evening in the hall of the Catholic Union, Glenealy, in hon our of the visit of His Lordship the Right Rev. D. João Paulino d'Azevedo e Castro, Bishop of
Macao..
The hall was tastefully decorated with palm "Trees;&C, for the occasion. His Lordship the Bishop, accompanied by his staff, Conselheiro A.G. Itomano and Mr. J. J. Leiria, atrived about 9.30 p.m., and was received by the R. C. clergy, the Christian Brothers, the committee of the Union, and about so members of the Club. The prelate was conducted to the ball, and having taken his seat, a speech of welcome was made by the Vice-President in the course of which his Lordship and his staff were t members of the Club. His Lordship replied with an excellent speech. He spoke words of encouragement to the promoters of the institu tion and concluded by wishing success to the Catholic Union. Another speech by one of the promoters followed, and then refreshments were served. His Lordship was then showb tion with the excellent arrangements. The over the premises und expressed his satisfac
These CLARETS are specially selected SIXTY-EIGHT Million cigarettes were exported Ch'un-hsien, of the Two Kwang provinces, has pretence. that "the allegations made in the enemy, approaching by a roundabout | requested to consent to be enrolled as honorary
and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value and in fine condition.
THE CHATEAU BRANDS
are recommended to the notice of Con- noisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.
We guarantee our Wine and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents
at the Coast Ports.
from China to Calcutta last year.
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ONE plague case was notified since the issue of yesterday's report," The total now stands ift 393.
First Army Corps now being mobilised by GEN. Meindorf is to be in command of the
Russia.
THE Sinwenfae states that Viceroy Tsen
received instructions from the Throne to arrange without delay the opening of the port of Huichoufu (Cantonese: Waichow) on the Kwangtung coast, to international commerce.
on the part of our Government that it consi It is also stated that the above step was taken.ders the American China Company to be in at the instance of the British Minister at Pek good faith an American company, and that this that new treaty port. ing who protested against the delay in opening Government alone has the right to deal with all diplomatic questions affecting the interets of the company. This deliverance was appa
route, while the Tojo Detachment protected the rear of the Marui Detachment.
The Tojo Detachment encountered the enemy, consisting of about three battalions of infantry, six mounted artillery guns and two machine guns on the 26th June and fighting continued from 5 a.m. till night. The Detachment encamped in fighting for
THE total revenue of the Transvaal for the to A RISE in the price of sugar, giving promise of tently elicited by certain questions submitted mation. From midnight the Detachment | proceedings terminated at about 11 p.m.
months ending April last was £4,573,454, and a steady rate of over six guilders a picul, has the expenditure 43,389,697.
A TIGER 6 feet long and 3 feet high was trapped at Bungkala Bukit Muar, some days
ago and has been sent to Johore.
CROWDS of British army and naval men from A. S. WATSON & CO., the garrison and fleet at Gibraltar attended
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Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.
TELEPHONE NO. 156
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Sunday bull fight in connection with the Span- ish fete al Algeciras,
A MESSAGE from Antwerp states that a Franco Belgian syndicate has obtained two important concessions in China, a railway concession in Shepsi and a tramway in Tientsin.
ACCORDING to reposts from Dawson City, gold dust valued at millions of dollars is arriv-
ing from the creeks in the Klondyke. The yield, it is said, exceeds that of the previous
season.
MR. ASADA, Commissioner in the Formosan Sugar Refinery Office, and Mr. Yokoyaina, an expert in the Formosan Government service,
America on official business,
FURNITURE have been appointed to visit North and outh
DEALERS.
DRAWING-ROOM,
DINING-ROOM,
and BED-ROOM
FURNITURE.
ELECTRO-PLATED,
GLASS, and
CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
ROCHESTER LAMPS,
gladdened the hearts of planters in Java,. The six-guilder minimum admits of a profit large enough to keep many estates going. Those estates which have managed to keep the cost of production below four guilders a picul will reap enormous profits from the rise. The
to the Departu ent of State by the Chinese Mi- nister, whose efforts to lascertain or to fix the pree'se status of the Hankow-Canton railway are said to have been assisted by a Mr. John G. Ferguson, who is variously described as "a special commissioner from China," and as "Grand Secretary of the Imperial Chi- growing cane crops present a fine appearance nese Railway Administration of that country." and the crushing promises to be first rate. One would like to bave the comment of His Juvu Bode.
paid £1,312 103, for an old Nänkin jar, rož in,
AT Christie's the other day Messrs. Agnew high. It is of hawthorn pattern, painted with flowering branches in white, on a brilliant marble dark-blue ground. The jor formed part of the collection of old English porcelain and furniture belonging to Mr. James Orrock one of the most astute living judges of old Naukin, In this particular instance, however, he dees
net appear to have made a big profit. Rumour says he bought the jar two years ago for pot much less than the sum realised at auction.
· TELEGRAMS TO THE NORTH.
The Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. informs us that the whole cable traffic between Hongkong and Shanghai being IT is stated that representatives of Mr. Leigh thrown on to his Company's cable in cunse. Hunt, the American cotton expert, are nego-quence of the interruption of the Eastern Ex. tiating for the importation of 12,000 experienced tension Company's cables between Hongkong cotton mising negroes to Africa for the purpose and Shanghai, delay may be expected on tele- of developing cotton production in the Soudan, grams from and to Shanghai (Amoy) and places
THE following British men-of-war were at Weihaiwei on the 27th ult.: Albion, Am- phitrite, Andromeda, Centurion, Cressy, Glory, Iphigenia, Leviathan, Vengeance, Waterwitch, Fame, and Janur. Also the C. N. steamers Hangchow and Tientsin.
A PARTY of Chinese students passed through WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. Nagasaki on the 27th ultimo. They were on their way by the P.M.S. Empress of India, to America and Europe. Fifteen of the party will study in America, five in England, three in Germany, and one in France.
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING, RANGES,
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
ACCORDING to a private telegram received
PHOTOGRAPHIC from Chefoo on the 30th ult. a number of
DEPARTMENT.
DEVELOPING and PRINTING
UNI ERTAKEN for AMATEURS,
GOOD WORK. ·
PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904
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E. C. WILKS & Co., MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.
COLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed,
Sälvage Work undertaken. Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam
and Motor Launches.
Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms
with First-class Builders." "
A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and
Asbestocel goods kopt."
Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical
Plant and Centrifugal Pumpan
Greek refugees arrived at that port from Port Anthur in a junk. They reported the Sevastopol very badly damaged in last week's engagement, and probably unable to take part in any further action for a long time,
MEзSRS. Levý Hermanos of Paris, who have a branch in Hongkong, have just sold an enor 'mous diamond of 112 carats to the Sultan of
Deli, Sumatra. It is the celebrated stone
known as the "Napoleon” which was recently discovered at the Caps, and it is said to be entirely the largest gem of its kind in this part of the world,
THE money which the Japanese people have offered to contribute, toward the war fond of the Government from the outbreak of the war up to the end of May amounted to Yen 1,581,848, the offers being made by 243.994 persons. Besides the above 19,086 Japanese residing in foreign countries bave donated Yen 203,000 for
the same fund...
ACCORDING to returas made by the authorities on the 31st December last, the population of
beyond,
S.S. "SIKH DAMAGED.
reopened attacking operation and occupied the position of the enemy. The enemy, in the afternoon, having received reinforce ments, consisting of about 3 battalions of infantry with 16 guns, tried to recover his former position. The artillery combat con-- tinued till 7.30 p.m. but afterwards the enemy was driven away.
The Right Rev. Bishop d'Azevedo left by the Ge man mail for singapore at noon to-day, on a pastoral-visit to Malacca,
A QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.
Chiu Wing San appeared before his Honour At the Supreme Court this aftemoon, the
T. Sercombe Smith, in support of an action against Chiu Man Yeung for the return of two promissory notes,
Mr. Otto King Sing appeared for plaintiff
and
Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, for defendant.
Excellency Shông on this latter title' of Mr.. Ferguson's, as also the views of his compatriots
The Marui Detachment despatched a in Shanghai in regard to Mr. Ferguson's em portion of the Detachment during the night inent fitness io conduct such a negotiation of the 26th June and threatened the rear of But, minor considerations apart, there stands the enemy. The main body of the Detach portant decision reached by the Administration, enemy by a circuitous route and, after defeat out the reason assigned for the somewhat imment proceeded to attack the rear of the namely, that China has feared for some time ing the enemy repeatedly, reached Santaoing to be promissory notes, which it was claim that Russia might acquire control of the Ameri either Eelgian or French capitalists, and "thus can China Development Company through
secure the proposed railway north from Canton and through the Yangtze Valley to Hankow,"
As a matter of fact, this would appear to
be what Russia has already done. Some six
kee.
The Asada Detachment dispersed the enemy consisting of about two thousand infantry and cavalry near Wangchiapaotsu on the 26th June and passed the night in the south of the eastern foot of Fenshuiling.
the return of two Chinese documents purport- Mr. Otto King Sing suid, it was an action for
ed were paid off and a receipt given in' full settlement,
Mr. Grist appear for the defendant under protest; I object to the jurisdiction of this Court. The cause of action did not arise in Hongkong in any way, nor was the defendant at the time of the issuing of the writ in the
tion in this matter...
years ago, in commenting on the conclusion At sa.m. of the 27th instant a line of artil- Colony. Therefore the Court has po jurisdic
fire from the forts very cleverly and as the enemy knew perfectly the range of his guns our artillery had a very hard fight for a time. However, just in time the Kamada Detach ment, which came round on the right Bank of the cucmy from midnight of the 26th, dispersed the enemy consisting of about two companies of infantry on the breast of the Tingchingshan at the south of Fenshuiling and posted the artillery there a little after 7 a.m. of the 27th after many difficulties, and fired straight upon the enemy on the Fen shuiling. The infantry reached the rear of the enemy's flank gradually.
Mr. King Sing submitted that the cause of action arose in Hongkong.
Mr., Grist maintained that the jurisdiction of the Court was confined to actions which arose in the Colony, or in which the defendant was at the time of the issue of the writ within the jurisdiction of the Couri
His Honour said be desired information a to where the transaction occurred, and a
Mr. King Sing proceeded to call evidence, observing that the action arose on a receipt given in this Colony and a promise made to retur certain notes to the plaintiff on the payment of money. Re
of the contract between the Chinese Govern.lery was spread out, but the enemy, met our ment and a Belgian syndicate for the con- struction of a railroad line from Peking to Hankow, the English China Association said in a memorial to Lord. Salisbury: Though the hand which signs the contract may be the hand of Belgium, it appears beyond question that France and Russia are the real powers behind the veil." The financing of this enter prise has been, from the first, in the hands of the Russo Chinese Bank, and the comment of the British critics has been preved to be entirely just.. It is not claimed, apparently, that the Peking-Hankow syndicate control the southern extension of the line which, strictly It is reported that the British steamer Sikh, speaking, extends froin Wuchang, across the which is in port from New York with a general river from Hankow to Canton. That financial- cargo and case oil, sustained damage to her ty ubiquitous monarch, the King of the Bel-
Again the Nukaya Regiment detached stern post while leaving Singapore. We un-gians, is the accepted bead of the first, and as
from the Asada Detachment also commenced derstand that she went to Manila from whence yet the only enterprise of the American China operations from midnight of the a6th June she was to depart for Shanghai. Some objection Development Company; but why it should and reached the rear of the left flank of the appears to have been raised in certain quarters, be deemed more difficult for Russia to acquire enemy at 7 a.m. of the 27th.. and the steamer was despatched for Hongkong, control of the company through his agency
Thus the enemy lost his freedom of action and arrived here yesterday.
than through that of the Northern Belgian in toto. His artillery was silenced at 7.50 syndicate passes comprehension Either too
a.m. and the whole line of the enemy began much or too little of Mr. Ferguson's argument must have been given to the public; certainly to collapse from about 8 a.m.
The infantry of the Asada Detachment
The following report is from Mr, JL. Plum what has been published icods to obscure, rather iban to elucidate, the action of this destroyed the auxiliary defence with the mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser Government. As bearing on the general sub-help of the engineers and proceeded to and satory ject, and specifically on the claim ade by Mr. stormed and took Fenshuiling at 11 am. has risen rapidly in the neighbourhood of the
On the 6th at 11:40 á.m. The barometer.. Whittier in his letter in us, that the Chinese and with the artillery furiously pursued the Miaco Sims, the changes elsewhere are slight,
the northern line a right of reversion in the wards Tomucheng afttroying and burn moving slowly northward, Government accorded to the Belgian Company enemy's retreat.nemy retreated to- The typhoon is now in the Eastern Sea Hankow Canton concession should the Ameri-
A LONG TOW.
The Norwegian steamer Elg has arrived from Iloilo with the American steamer Con sales in low. Capt. Christophersen, who brought over a cargo of sugar and woot, left Iloilo with the Consales on Thursday last and arrived here this morning. Late this afternoon the American steamer was taken alongside the Kowloon docks and subsequently went on the slipway.
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE IN
CHINA.
The number of the dead of the enemy left on the field is still under investigation, but those left on the main road only number more than ninety.
Our casualties are about 170n.com missioned officers and men includit Major Ohba killed.
can concessionaires fail to carry it out the fol-ing the store of provisi and fodder.*
Six officers and 821on-commissioned lowing quotation from the reply of the Chinese Foreign Office to the British Charge at Peking, officers and men were cap, red. dated 10th May, 1889, may be of interest. "We, received your letter to the effect that in the prospectus issued by the Belgian syndicate Another chapter has been added to the if is stated that China has promised that in history of the calations between the American the event of the abandonment of the Ameri China Development Company and the Goyer. cantact for the Hanków-Cauton railway, ment of the United States. It was stable the Belgian syndicate will be entrusted with these columns some two months ago that the contraction of that line. You added far as the construction of the Hankow-Canton railway was concerned, the American character of the ente prise bad for some time past been purely nominal, and that within the few weeks preceding it had ceased to be even that, the the directorate of the American China Develop ment Company, having become Belgian both inaame and in fact. To this statement
The enemy's position on Fenshuil is the key of the road to Tomucheng and enemy spent three months with their utanck endeavour to construct semi-permanent forl fications with forts, entrenchments, barracks, ronds and tents well prepated. In addition to these the enemy strongly defended the
that you had heard that this promise was given. subsequently to the settlement of the Belgian agreement, and you inquired whether such an arrangement had been made. We have the honour to inform you that neither the Belgian agreement in twenty-nine clauses, nor the sup plementary agreement in ten clauses, contains any such stipulation, and that there has been
stbsequent arrangement of any kind,” A fortification with auxiliary defences such
ect which leads itself so easily to mis- wire entanglements and abattis in the front
the city of Osaka was 988,200 on that date,ption was taken by Mr. Charles A. Whit- showing an increase of 36,167 compared with tier, the President of the company, who said in the end of the preceding year. The value of a letter published by us on the 25th Marchsentation seems to require some franker It was almost impossible to ogupy the pasi she foreign trade of Osaka now amounts to that there had been no change in the ¥35,000,000, and it is claimed that the town charter or status of the American China it
· [381] now ranks among the large cities of the world. Development Company, which" "remained | W
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Telegram Address:
MARINZWORK." Hongkong, and May, 1904.
lller treatment than has been accorded to tion by frontal attack only le However the
explan.tory dispatches sent from Asada Detachment very checke on.-N. V. Journal of Commerce.
the front of the enemy
Plaintiff proceeded to give evidence showing that Tis. 610 were due to Chiu Man Yeung, and when Tis. 600 were paid over, he (plaintiff) should have received the two documents in documents handed over in the village of Hau- question. The notes were drawn up and the
kau, near Canton, where he lived.
Adjourned.
THE WEATHER.
Gradients are slight on the China Coast, and light variable winds will prevail in the Formosa Channel and northern part of the China Sea.
Further south fresh S.W. monsoon may be
expected.
Forecast
Light variable winds, fine.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
•MAILS DUK.
·American (Siberia) 7th inst," Indian (Kumsang) rath inst. French (Oceanien) 12th inst Australian (Tsinas) 13th inst. Canadian ( Tarlar) 19ta insle
cutia and the Straits left, Singapore for this The 1. C. 5. N. Co.'ss.s. Kunsang from Cal- post en sth inst., at Am
S
The Shire Line si. Radnorshire from Lon don, &c, left Singapore on 4th inst, afternoon, and is due here on 10th inst
Cisco via
The PM/S/S. Colt LL. Garlic with mails, which ift hance on 4th ult, for San Frans hoy, Keelung, Shangbai, Nagasaki, Yokohama and Honolulu, d'ay his destinating on and inst