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No. 5008.--JULY 26, 1879.]

THE CHINA MAIL.

STEAMBOAT COMPANY LIMITED,

His Worship said he did not see why | HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO the man (who seemed to know Mr Bowdler well enough) should come and take all the trouble of charging him, unless he had been blow on his body, struck; besides, he showed the mark of a

the Gazette, we hope to have the advantage | year, notwithstanding the depressed state of again seeing the company on the Yoko of trade, and indications are not wanting

that a turn for the better has taken place. hama stago, and of recording full houses to the benefits of Miss May and Miss Howе THE Foochow correspondent of N. C. D. and Mr Vernon, all of whom deserve well News writes, 18th July, somewhat unfavour- of the public for whose pleasure and gratifiably of the shipping interest at that port cation they have done so much during their Freight per ateamer is only 358,, and several

have gone away half-laden-one in ballast.prove that I struck him. visit to Japan,

The temperature is very high, 98 in the shade. It is, in fact, one of the hottest summera experienced for many years in Fuochow.

Tax latest Amoy advices are as follows :---

Two successivo shocks of earthquake were felt in Kulangsu on Sunday (20ib) at 3 55 p. m.

The U. S. 8. Ranger Commander Boyd, arrived on the 20th from itongkong.-By the Hanger frona Hongkong Mr Godsborough, U.S. Consul at this port, arnved same day.

Taa Inst Bombay paper to hand give a...! report of a decrea for dissolution of Mar-

riage, in the suit Annie Cicilia Brown vs. The case was John Richards Brown,

before Mr Justice Bayley on Friday, June-

Mr Bowdler (after recollecting himself) saidIt was a stone-carrier I strack; this man is a stone-cutter, and has no witness to

His Worship-I cannot help that; it is possible that this is the man,

He states on his oath that you struck him, and I am bound to believe his statement. It is for you to disprove it.

Defendant wished to continue the argu- ment, but his Worship told him that he had no wish to argue with him, his decision was that he be fined $, or two days imprison ment. And he (Mr Bowdler) ouuld do as he

liked.

MD THOMAS IDE BOWLER CRARGED WITH ASSAULT.

Defendant ironically thanked his Wor a mostrabid 20th, when Mr F. R. Vicajas, instructed by ship, paid the time, and left the Court with Ona alteniton has been called to a safe-free-appeared-for-the-petitioner. the air of an ill-eased and injured individual. diatribe in the Leeds Times of June 7ohon There was no appearance for the respondent. the subjects which the Q, D. Q. Commission His Lordship passed a decreo nisi fur disso Intely dealt with. In an article under the lation of marriage, to be sent by registered letter to the respondent'e address at Shang. to have the custody of the children until further order. The respondent was ordered

Mr Thomas Ide Bowler, a broker, was

The following is the Report of the Board of Directors of the Company, to the Or dinary half yearly Meeting of Shareholders, to be held at the Office of the Company, on Tuesday next, the 29th inst. :---

last.

China.

'BILANGHAL. ****

(N. C. D. News) The beat on Sunday afternoon, from about one till half-past four o'clock, was lutenes. Not a breath of air was stirring. and in several parts of the Sottlement, as The Directors beg to submit to tho 98 in the shade-being the highest tem- well as on shipboard, the mercury marked Shareholders the usual Statement of Ao-perature experienced in the shade at Shang counts for the half-year ending 80th Juno ai since the summer of 18 4.

We hear that the new steamer Wuhu, belonging to the China Navigation Company, is nearly ready to leave the Tung-ka-doo dock, and that she will go on the burth, to take the next regular trip of the Hankore for the Yangtaze ports, in command of Captain Martin, who brought her up from Hongkong. It is said all the river steamers belonging to the Company are to be laid up in turn, thoroughly overhauled, and when this is done, the Peking is to proceed to Hongkong, in command of Martin, The Directors of the French Gas Company have ordered the payment of an interin dividend of 5 per cent, on and after the 23rd instant, at the offices of the agents. staff, Thomas H. Hutchinenn, has died of sunstruke. Deceased had been engaged in (18th), and on going home to dine shortly afterwards died. [This is the third case of the kind recorded within week.-ED. C. 31.1

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by profession, is the leader of a gang of five desperadoes who have conspired to take the lives of the Daijin and Sangi. Their mur

derous désiga soems to have been in a fair way of advancement, when, the ohief of the band, imagining that the plot had been discovered, upset all the arrangements by giving himself up to the police and by making a full confession. Three other con from the police force in Kanagawa, spirators have boon arrested, one hailing

Mar sot out from Fusan, in Korea, to ex

Late in April the Japanese vessel Takawo plore the shores of that peninsula for a suitable port for trade with Japan. A har- our called Nigawa, on the south, was selected by the Government of Japan, but it has not yet been conceded by Koren.

Some time ago we announced that the Im- perial Chinese Government had taken steps to increase the navy by the purchase of a number-of-gunboats-urmod-with-very large We hear that three oraft of the

guus.

After paying running expenses, salaries, premia of insurance, a portion of the repaire effected on the Kiukiang, and a fino of $10,675 imposed upon the Porras and Kinshan for carrying an excesive number of passengers, there remains, including $26,055.87 brought forward from last to count, the mum of $46476.93 at credit of Profit and Loss Account. The Directors recommend the distribution of a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent. on the paid up capital, whisls-will-abach-tog beses llongkong and Cantabi Alpha Betti clase, armed euch with one six- $18,000, and the appropriation of $2,750 an Directors' and Auditors' fees, leaving a balance of $25,726 93 to be carried forward

falling off sa compared with those for the same period last year, which is to be sc. had to run the Powan during the whole of the half-year, with the exception of the first three weeks in January, in the place of the Kiukiang, the former not being so well suited to the special treffe as the latter steamer.

to new account,

and Delle class, each armed with one eight- hundred pounter, and three of the Gamma - hundred pounder, have been completed and are now on their way to China. We think

thy can only be used as a flotilla for purposes for which they are intended. attack or defence under protection of larger

• heading of “a foul revenue' the British hai or Fuochow, China. The petitioner is charged with assaulting a married woman The earnings-of-the-Company-show Another member of the Customs outdoor the vessels will not serve the general public ure told that *part of the revenue of this British Ulony of Hongkong is

derived by licences tak、n out by houses of to pay the petitioner's coats of the petition but said it was done accidentally; he was counted for by the disadvantage of having the heat of the sun some time during Friday ships, and for cruising or convey, or other

and of the decree.

named Ho A-ynu on the 24th inst. De fendant admitted having strack the woman, walking past her stall swinging his cane which struck her on the face; he apologised THE Madrid correspondant of the Standard for it and offered her fifty cents to buy writesThe pretensions of Spain in the wed, tion, With sterefused. A shoemaker, Far East seem to imply a contradiction. who, from Mr Bowler's statement, appears to It is argued that the Sultan of Sulu is a bo zealous in perseouting him, advised com- attributary or subject to Spanish sovereignty, plainant to get out a summers against him.

Defendant was discharged. by his treaty, after the late war, #11

ill fame," that "ordinances similar to the detestable C.D. acts of our own land have been in operation there since 1807, and have in a natural process of development reached a state of wickedness which has last sncceeded in appalling the authorities," sed so co ad sauséem; "outrages" and coruption," "villany parading itself in Bruh uniform," and so on. Two Leeds Times, alluding to the £20,000 a year which Hongkong paya to Great Britain as a mili-

pain, and that therefore his pretended rights upon Labuan can be assumed by bis

Li Ashap, coolie, charged with a breach uzerain. Anyhow this could not set aside of the Opium Ordinance was fined $100 or the nucient oes don to the last India Com-six months' imprisonment, half of the fine

any by the predecessors of the present to go to the opium farmer. ulisu. Besides, in the negotiations be tween Engla d, Germany, and Spain about

...

The new P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i-hind came into port yesterday morning__(20th), having been detained four days at Woosung. She is now moored at the Hongkew Wharf. We gave a full description of her, in au extract called from the London papers of her trial trip; and in a word she may be said to be one of the finest vessels that has ever visited Shanghai,"

purposes, are useless.

MANDALAY.

Our latest advices from Mandalay are of the most ominous character; and show, if they are to be relied on, that King Thee- while his talent for boasting is by no means on the wane. The family of the War Prince have been the latest victims, so we are in- formed. The two daughters of this Prince

baw's thirst for blood is on the increase,

tary gontribution, exclaims, with virtuous the trade with the Sula Archipelago two rubbish in the harbour, Defendant admitted mitization of the penalty, The Colonial bourhood of Woosung, for which purpose consigned to the river Irrawaddy; but aq-

Indignation, he £40,000 contributed We to our revenue has a foetid smell." are prat y certain that if the delicate conscience of England were to prevent her from taking this annual contribution altogether, no one in Hongkong would be Borry. We would only say one word as tu the revenue being contributed to by the licences from houses of il-fame. What dues is really mean? The editor of the Zeeds Times dove not give any hint that the sum, which is the outcome of twenty years, includes not only the amount of the licences, and an allowance from the mill; tary authoritien for the last seven years, but all the files for the transgression of ibis Ordinance, passed with the best inten- tions, to preserve law and order, and ue crease the spread of disease arising frum an evil which it would be the height of madness, situated as Hongkong is, to leave alone. The whole actual reve

nue

from these licensed houses

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Chin A-chat, was charged with throwing the charge and said he did not know the rules. Fined $2 or ten days' imprisonment, and to be exposed for three hours in the stocks, at the place where the offence was committed.

years ago, the Mindrid Government admitted that foreign vessels could only be made to pay duties and be amenable to seizure for untrabaud when trading with ports actually held by the foress of pain, thus confirmi. g the fact that the islanders and the sultan do not consider their independence to ferted,

Cheong Kwok Tai, cattle dealer, was as also their finquent acts of hostility to charged with stealing from the person of Spanish vesse sul imply. Father Quar-Li Muk Shang $9 in silver, $1.16 of broken teron, who raised the Spanish flag on the silver, and also with beating complainant. territory of Labuau, where he successfully Their differences aroes out of a gambling established a missione, is-a-Vicar apo transaction. Defendant was ordered to enter stolis, who was a pilot on board a vessel in into his own recognisance in $50, to be of the China Seas many years a,c, and had good behaviour for twelve months, discovered an important wreck through the death-bed confession of a passenger on his ship. He afterwards became a priest, and settled in Labuas. He is believed to have acted recently under the lustigation of the authorities at Manils, without structions from home.

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THE Japan Gazelle thus refers to the ap- pointment of Mr J. J. Keswick as Portuguere Consul General for Japan --

In December last we had the pleasure of giving publicity to a translation of a me- morial drawn up by the Portuguese com- munity of Yokohama, in which, after setting forth their high appreciation of the sterling. and disinterested qualities of the Asting $187,508, and the general expenditure Consul-General for Portagal, they prayed was $110,218.70, to which has to be added for the permanent appointment to that office of Mr J. J. Keswick, the representative $36,382.16 spent upon the cost, alteration, partner in Japan of the well-known English and maintenance of the Lack hospital. These firm of Jardine, Matheson and Ca. It will later items altogether give 8146,550.86, be very gratifying to our Portuguese fellow- residents to learn that the response to their so that we have precisely $40,957.10 for memorial has been a commission, under the twenty years, that is to say £400 a year, and royal siga-manual of Portugal, appointing Mr Keswick Consul-General in Japan. That the hospital as it atauds. If the Leeds Times Mr Keswick is held in great respect and wrote with more moderation and more know-esteem by Portuguese subjects resident în ledge of its subject, ita remarks might be Japan in fully evidenced by the warm terms of their memorial. The appointment could worth paying some attention to; as it is they not buve been conferred upon any gentleman more competent to fill the honourable office in which he is now confirmed, and in com-

King of Portugal has indirectly tendered a graceful compliment to Englishmen in China and Japan.

are merely the ou burst of ono who has, in

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Wong Akung, charged with assaulting young girl, said she had been drinking and gave the girl a slight shove. haviour for six months.

Bound over in $20 to be of good be

TOPICAL.

A correspondent sends us the following doggerel verses which he has tendered for the use of "The Bold Gendarmen" to night:-

Mr John Pope Hennessy, the Governor, 's

away,

Or to-night he would have been here; In Japan he's going it rather strong,

At least so it would appear.

By request of the Chamber at Tokio,

His Excellency took his stand,

And run 'em án And run 'em in In a way that was childlike and bland,"

&c.

Mr Hennessy, our esteemed Governor,

Before he went to Japan, Appointed a Commission to enquire, Tuto the mysteries of Fan-ton;

They want to secure the gam-ba-lers,

Every mother's son and man,

And run 'em in, And run 'em in,

common with some other people ing-plying with the desires of his subjects the But we're doubtful if they can,

· land, a sentimental oreza on this subject.

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We understand that private advices from Home state that after the Prince lagerial had gone to the Cape, Her Majesty tule graphed to Lord Chelmsford to send bin back, not being demirous of the quasi- responsibility of life being sacrificed in her service as a volunteer, But the tels- gram reached tbs Seat f War too late. The Prince's death fins caused enormous excitement at Home.

In conniction with the above we see that

the London correspondent of the Poncer in his last letter says ..

Wira reference to the subject on which we remark to-day in our leading columns, we take the following paragraph from a recent Shipping and Mercantile Gazette :~

&c.

The agencies of the Wei Sing They tried to bribe our constables,

Have been fined two hundred each;

The public papers have made the Share- holders acquainted with the proceedings at the Police Court against the Kinshen and Fovan for carrying passengers in excess of the numbers allowed by the River Steamer urdinance, which resulted in the Company being fixed in the very heavy sum above stated. The Directors have petitioned fis A Chinese Naval review is, it is believed, were, it is said, apprehended at Minhls, Excellecoy the Governor, praying for likely to take place shortly in the neigh- and according to one account were at once Secretary bas acknowledged the receipt of quite a fleet of gun-vessels are assembling.ording to another story, were taken to the petition, informing the Directors at the It is between three and four years since Mandalay heavily ironcil and cast into same time that it was under the considera- such an event happened in the neighbour-prison. It is said also that the surviving tion of the Government. The generally hood named, and on that occasion a large sons of this Priuso have been disposed of soknowledged hardship of the Ordinance number of heavily armed junks were re- and the acquittal of another steamer viewed, besides gunbonts and a numerous charged with arrying an excess of passen-army, the soldiers manning the land de gera under precisely similar circumstances fences of the river as well as the forts some as the Company's steamers, lead the Dire distance inland. tors to hope for a favourable reply to their petition, and eventually for the repeal of the Ordinance.

Fund.

under circumstances of extrome barbarity; but we refrain from entering into further particulars ponding further advices. The mother and sister of the Nyoung Yan Prince are still alive, but are languishing heavily ironed in jail. Some of the young King's advisers have been as usual re commending the speedy extermination of all hulluks, but wiser counsels have so far prevailed.

One of them

The circumstances of the brutal murder at a teashop in the Maloo in April last, will be still fresh in the minds of our readers, On opening up the Kiukiang in deck, and it is satisfactory to know that the long the hull proved to be in a much worse con- and tedious process of Chinese law applica- dition than was anticipated at the date of ble thereto, is, by different stages, being

We hear that King Theebaw has given the last Report. It has been found necesfully carried out. First, the two prisoners orders for the purchase of 1,000 ponies as gary to re-build the hull, which has entailed Moh-lee and Koo Ching-ches were examined remounts for his cavalry, and has issued & heavy expenditure. It is, however, by the District Magistrate at the inquest, and directions to the officers on the Tounghoo then further examined by Chen, the Magi- froutiers to prevent any ponies being taken money well laid out, as the hull being now entirely renovated, and the machinery anu

strate of the Mixed Court, who remitted into British territory by the Shuns, as all boilers in excellent condition, the Kiuki_ng them into the City. The District Magistrate the ponies are required for the Royal may be considered a new steamer. The has had them several times before bim, and service.

If what the correspondent of the Rangoon Dock Company's account, which is now now we hear they have been sent to ander examination, will be defrayed partly Sunkiaag, for examination before the Pre-Times states regarding the three Laythadau by the amount at credit of Profit and Loss fect, it is said, who, if he is satisfied of their or bodyguard being about to be made Account and partly from the Depreciation guilt, will send them on to Soochow to be Princes is true, it clearly shows the stato

sentenced, and if sentenced to the extreme of things in Mandalay. penalty of the law, they will be sent back to Aingyer Moung about two years ago was Shanghai for execution.

such a disgraceful character that he was kioked out of the house by one or two Europeans, to whom he attempted to lend bis own wife. The whole three were im plicated in the murder of an old man at Amarapoors about four years ago for the sake of his money. They were tried by the Yeuangyoung Monghyee, and wore disgraced. The active purt taken by them in the late ghastly masacres seems to have led to their getting into great favour with Theebaw; and they have beou going about latterly decked out like princes-with diamond earrings and velvet saddles and shoes, and two gold unbrellas. These are the pleasant sort of persons composing the Court of Mandalay, with whom our moral government is so anxious to maintain friendly relations.-liangoon Times.

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(Courier.)

The Directors, being well aware of the importance of keeptog the Company's flet in the Canton waters up to the require- mente of the times, have decided upon the acquisition of a new steamer of great speed

We hear that the consequences of the and large passenger accommodation";" and have contracted with Mesars Denny Bros, present drought are threatening to become very serious. It is even said that unless of Dumbarton for the hul, machinery and rain falle within the next week the whole beilora of such a steamer deliverable here of the rice crop in the Ningpo district will iu pieces, complete and ready to be put up fail. At present the sky is as brass, and on arrival, for the sum of £27,400, to the earth as iron, and there is no immediate which will have to be added the cost of

prospect of rain. erection and of the upper works.

A sailor on board the steamer City of By the acquisition of a new steamer, the Santiago met with a fatal accident the other Powan will no longer be required in thcsoday. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon waters, and being in the opinion of experts he fell backwards against the bulwarks and well adapted for the Yangtze, where a fractured his skull. The Captain imise lar.o stear or traffic exists, the Directors, diately sent for medical assistance, but it after mature deliberation, bave decided to

was unavailing. The man was taken to the prove ber usefulness for that traffic by Hospital, where he died at 9 o'clock the placing her upon the line, with the view of

same evening. making the capital invested in the steamer yield some return to the Shareholders or of

inducing a purchaser for the steamer to

come forward.

In order to ensure, as far as possible, immunity from accidents to machinery nutil the new steamer should be ready for service, which is expected to be in May Lext, the Directors have decided to over

The Chinese men-of-war now assembled at Woosung are daily practising with their guns and manwavring. The grand review,

To those who have been accustomed to

drink their tes made after the English to which we have before alluded, is to take method, the Persian mode of preparing place on Monday next, when the whole fleet thia beverage will afford a most pleasant will be placed under the command of Ad- change. Ita by substituting a little lime. miral Chang. Considerable interest is be-juice for the milk usually added to the tea. ing taken in the event by the officers and it is a vary refreshing drink in warm

But the bobbies found it better to pea baul the Kinshan and White Cloud before men, as 50,000 tacle have, we are told, been weather, and is said to be the only way in

The Lotteries first had their innings,

The Police then went to the wickets,

And run 'em in,

п

And run 'em in,

dro.

"With a sense of deep emotion,

We approach that painful case," Where the doctor lost his money,

And nigh brought his boy to disgrace, But the boy engaged a lawyer, Who proved beyond a doubt,

Tho' they'd run hire in, Tho' they'd run him in,

Asc.

If ever you present a cheque to the Bank, For the sum of two thousand dollars, Be careful not to accept too much,

The deterioration of seamen is complained of in England, the United States, France, And confiscated all their tickets, and Germany, in an article we extracted some-time-ago-from-the Borsen Halle on the. scarcity of seamen in Germany it was re commended that the Hamburg law should be made general over the Empire, under which every sea-going vessel exceeding a certain tonnage should be obliged to carry one boy who has never made a voyage, Two or three evenings ago the rumour of and larger ships, two. In a recent im- the Prince Lous Napoleon's death was in- Pression we gave the outline of a Bill dustriousy spread, and, atrange to say,

which has been introduced into the American They'd have to run him out, generally believed in the Boulevard. He Senate to provide against the scarcity of had suffered from slight fover, but I believe seamen and the manning of Merchant is quite well sin. Sull it is constantly vessels belonging to the United States with reported here that he is dying or dead. foreigners, Beven hundred and fifty boys The object of anet rumours must be to

are to be kept on board training ships at the Government expense; and it is anticipated alarmn the anbappy Empress Eugénie eno induce ber to urge the recall of the Prince. that, at the end of their probationary At some of the embassies it is even Bervice, they will become so accustomed w Life in war vessels that they will prefer the asserted that Sir Michael Hose Bench gay. Navy to the Mercantile Marine. A large distinct command to Sir Garnet Wolseley, number of youths are required to fill up the And say that you'd embezzled, who will reilgiously follow at prders in secure his peerage, to have a medical board 64ps caused by deaths from drowning and buld, immediately on arrival in Afsion to disease; but if the sanitary condition of report on the state of health of the Prince hips and scamen were more thoroughly Imperial, and to send the young man home attended to it is quite certain that so many at once if the doctor shinks him too delicate men would not have to abandon a seafaring for the Cape. Of euro, auch nu zot,life on account of physical incapacity to cope

with its duties. however disguised nader the name di friendliness to the Prince and his mutner, would really muau a tame allotmission' to the wishes of the I reach Usbinet, smonger whom there kus beɛu a súteness felt at the opportunity given by cur Government to. the Price Impérial to gain popular favour-+- in France"by his plucky, adventure into Zululand. And, therelure, I cannot be lieve in the statement.

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Polios Intelligence. (Before C. V. Creagh, Esg.) Saturday, July 26th,

AN OFFICIAL FINED $6,

Mr Edward Bowdler, Assistant Surveyor General, was charged with assaulting a

As ten to one an action “follers," We are all quite liable to make mistakes, But you'd find it rather unpleasant,

If they run you in, If they run you in,

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Now the Zuin war is over,

Consequently we are glad,

Sir Garnet was sent to do the job,

And he's done it "no that bad,"

His men, gallant fellows, he brought them

-ell

To old King Cat-o-way-o's Kraal,

And run 'em in, And run 'em in, And avenged their comrades' fall,

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They'd the gallant "Twenty-fourth

avenge,

And our country's honour to saVO, And the proud Flag of "Old England; *

Long may the banner wave i and whoever dares to ascall it next,

No matter on what protext,

We'll run 'em in, - We'll run 'em in,

Complainant stated:-1 was working at the Praya Wall on the 23rd inst., about & p.m., and was stooping down placing a large stone, when hir Bowdler struck me. several blows on the back with a walking And their country will be annex'd, stick. (Shows slight mark above the hip.)

Defendant said I have no recollection of striking the complainant Two men barry ing a stone knocked against my leg. "I struck one of them a slight blow.

In the Hours of Cotumors, on June 11th,stone cutter named Li Ain. ctn the molava of Loi nel Stanley, a socG. bommultum was appointed to inquire int the Louisgious messen dots (1860-9), the administration, upstation, nou effe the following members were appted to BETES ON ILO Commistes :- Mr. Cavendia ⠀Bentinek, ¡ðir ötansfeld, Unionęł” Aležando), Bir trout Johnstone, Viscous Crichton, Bir nauw Loievre, tiensial buure, Meurt, Mr Buswer, Mr ✔Shaughnessy, Juḥthiva vich ve members w be sumusted by the 14 Chumitten vi delection,

Fined $6 or two days' imprisonment. After his Worship bed thus disposed of the case

deci

We neither fear the At-a-ghans Nor the Zulus, nor Burmess, They may win a day by accident,.

But we bring them to their knees, If we want a scientifs frontier,

- Oy var neighbour's army to disband,

We run 'em in, We run on in

Mr Bowdler said-I do not remember. striking any one this past week. I do not know complainant, sud never saw him bye | That's the polley of Old England,

It kejsatisfac orypto noties that the dividend kad vy ile dula Canai Company in unly

obtenidly anallerting that 9flator forsley,

despatching the Potan North. The Kin-sent down from Peking for distribution as prizes among the officere and crews of the shan, having been put in first-rate order, vessels which prove to be the smartest on has resumed her place on the Canton line, Monday. and the kite Cloud is now laid up, her place on the Macao line being taken by the Powan. The overhaul of the Spark alluded to,in the last Report can be put off for some timo.

Japan. (Gazette.)

Out of 5,349 cases of cholera reported In accordance with the Articles of As from Osake, 4,081 are said to have died, 461 sociation, Mesra. E. E. Belilion and Wrecovered, and the balance are still under Keswick retire from the Board by rotation, treatment. and being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.

The retiring Auditors, Messrs. Smith and Hauschild, offer themselves for re-election.

W. KESWICH, Chairman. Hongkong, 24th July 1879,

CORRESPONDENCE. OBJECTIONABLE CHINESE HABITS. To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL."

The railway between Kioto and Otsa is now nearly completed, the tunnel through Ozake bill being still unfinished. On the 1st August next trains will commence run- ning between Kioto and Oiwake.

A new wharf has recently been con- structed at the harbour of Muroran, Yezo. It is about 60 yards in length, and even at low tide the steamers running between Mutorau and Morimura can use the wharf.

Reports of inundations have been received Hongkong, 26th July,

from lahikawa and Yamagata ken. In the BIB,-I believe I am as liberal-minded as former, rain commenced on the 5th instant, most people, and think with some "that lasting several days. The rivers in Kago, one man is as good as another so long as he Note, and Echin, overflowed, and inundated behaves himself." But, from what I know the rice-fields, sweeping away all the young and have seen I do not consider the Chinese plants. In Yamagata ken it rained heavily of the Colony know how to behave them. on the 10th and 11th instant. The rivora selves; therefore they ought to be de overflowed their banks. Houses, bridges barred or restricted from crowding to places and rice-folds have been destroyed and of European resort. Let them keep to several lives have been lost. Details have their own Recreation Ground until they not yet been received in the metropolis. have educated themselves up to European The rainy season this year, in many parts idess of manners and aleanliness; and even of Japan, appears to have been exceptionally then they ought only to be allowed in severe. Reporte are continually reaching limited numbers. Some few months ago tis of heavy down-pours. In the province it was a pleasure to stroll through the of Echigo it commenced to rain on the 4th Gardens; now, however, it is quite the instant and never ceased for a whole week. reverse, the place being thronged with dirty The rivere Bhimano and Oka overflowed to coelies. And thene that are tolerably well their banks on the 12th and inundated the dressed do not forget to les gou know that surrounding country, doing considerable they have the dirty habits of the Oelestials damage to the town of Niigata, the neigh viz., hawking, spitting and blowing their bouring villages and to the rice fields. noses with their angers. Another objec Bridges and houses were swept away in. tionable habit is their wearing loose clothes, fact, it is said, that Niigate has not been enabling them to pull up their pyjamas visited by such a flood for the space of thirty Above their kuses, and they frequently too, years, have their jackets open or entirely off they have also special habit of monopolising bearly all the seats, and lounge about so though they were in their beds.

The silic business has been on a very ex- tensive scale in Hiogo this year. The ma fority of the population in the province of Tojima, two districts of Tombs, and six districts of Harima have been engaged in the same industry, and the season has been a very profitable one. The market price of the new oocoons is $2.50 yen for one bidan. me about a half yen higher than last year.

The Tokio newspapers report the discovery of a plot for the assassination of the Dajin Bad Bang. From the details published wa glean that a shizuku residing in the Eboragi ☎ I. B | Km, Twamaki by name, and school teacher

The idea of altting down in the seats after they have vasated them is not pleas. ant, as we are aware they are not as cleanly lu their persona sa one could wish, zadnji

Perhage a notice in Chinese pui op here and there to the effect that until these objestiouable habits are dropped they are not to be allowed the gas or the Gardens, might have a beneficial effect, ⠀

which tea is drank in Persia and Turkey.

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