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REVIEW.

Central Asia and Tibet, Towards the Holy City of Lhame. By Dr. Sves HUDIN. London Hurst and Blackott, Ld. volumes. Few travellers of modern times have excited more interest than Dr. Sven Hedia; and this for two reasons-first, the character and per sonal enthusiasm of the man, and secondly, the extreme value, historically sud scientifically, of the work undertaken. If the now work have less of the romantic about it than his first journey it is that the scenes depicted in it have already been mails more or less familiar by his previous explorations; but from a scientific point of view the filling in of the lacunes left on his former journey have an even more permanent value as the final conclusions of a travoller exp able of pronouncing a definite opinion.

physical As contribution towards the geography of Central Asia, cant of the Pamirs Dr. Helin's work stands without a ricul, and if the present work has added comparatively little to our knowledge of the natural history and geology of the districts visited, it is to be remembered that he has brought back large col lections, which will doubtless, when worked

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 15rn, 1904.

POLICE COURT.

Thursday, 14th April. BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND

expect the level of the Lop district to rise from contary to contary. Dr. Hodin's researches show that this has not been the case, the former bed of the lake, as indicated by the site of the town discovered by the traveller, having on the contrary been eroded several feet since the oree- tion of the buildings on the site. This afforded the explanation of the oscillatory movements of the fake. As long as the muddy river flows into it the lake-bottom rises, while at the same time the former lake bed is eroded by the conlefonce. stant westerly gales which mark the winter and spring. As soon as by this double process the relative levels of the new and old locks have Leon reversed the lake again takes up its original position, and so oscillates between the Karrak and Altyn Taghs, without any permanent rise in the surface of the plain occurring.

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In opposition to a certain colian theory--that of Buren F. von Richthofen-which for a time became famors, we now learn that the surfaces of the loess-clad stoppes of Nor Chinn and Eastern Turkestu uro undergoing rapid denndation by the combined action of air and water. Anyone who has had experience of Northern China, even so far hast us Pechili and Shantang, whore for six months in the

POLICE MAGISTRATE).

ALLEGED BRIBERY.

A Chinose butcher was charged with bribery. Mr. John Hastings, solicitor, appeared for the

Mrs. Ienbol

Watson, wife of Inspector Alexander Watson. gavó evidence that at about a quarter-to-nine on the morning of the 11th inst. a butcher came into the garden and asked for the Inspector, who was ont. He sat down, talking to herlittle girl, and by-and-bys getting tired of waiting, evidently, went away, leaving two $10 notes in the child's hand.

By Mr. Hastings: Witness said that tho youngster had often spoken to and played with the defendant before. Witness and another daughter named Katie, eight years old. The children spoke Chinese, and sometimes when the Inspector was put interpreted for their mother. Mon in the position of the defendant gure the children 10 cents, 50 cents, or ever §1, and wit-

news took no notice of it.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[VIA AUSTRALIA.]

THE KAISER AT GIBKALTAK.

London, Slat March. Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, com- manding the Channel floot, has entertained the Kaiser aboard the flagship Majestic, After an inspection of Gibraltar, the Kaiser remarked that he was not surprised that it was impreguable. "It surpasses expectations," he added. "It is grand, like everything English."

TIH PACIFIC CENTRE OF GRAVITY.

London, 21st March,

In the course of a speech before the United Service Institution last night, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts said the centre of international gravity bad shifted to the Pacific. There the dominating factors in the serious complications of the future would be found, using to the extraordinary development and progress of that part of the world, and also in view of the early completion of the Panama Canal.

BRITAIN IN TIRET

Londen, 21st March. The Bhutanese have authorised the Govern ment of India to construct a read through Bhutan to the Chambi Valley, along which the

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PH TO GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

We have an Establishment. Solely devoted to

DEVELOPING AND PRINTING

or Amateurs, where we turn out work of the best description and with great promptness.

LONG, HING & 00.,

Hongkong, 10th March, 1904. THE TSAR AND HIS ADVISERS.

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SHIPPING TRUST IN BRITISH CONTROL.

The Now York Globe (late Commerciali beginning of August. as recorded in the Japan ese Blue-book just issued, will readily afford to Advertiser) states that the control of the Ship- the unprejudiced reader n full and sufficient ping Trust has actually passed into the hands strangely abrupt method of breaking off pro- is no longer in command. Messra Ismay, of explanation of what might otherwise appear a of the British, and that Mr. Pierpont Margan fessedly friendly relations,

fact the the White Star Line, and Mr. Pirrie, chair- guiding hand of Count Lamsdorf is missing in man of the Harland and Wolff Shipbuilding all the subsequent correspondence. Like weak Company, own the majority of tho shares in monarchs in all ages, the Tsar, distrusting his International Mercantile Marine.

Mr. Steele, Mr. Morgan's partner, sailed o regular advisers, yet not fooling himself strong

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land, can have ro difficulty in recognising that, charge of the Animal Depôts und City Sinuch. Younghusband mission has advanced into Tibet, ouough to dismiss them entirely, sought to adopt the 9th inst. for Liverpool on the Oreanic Ba

independent of the water-courses of these two provinces, the amount of soil carried yearly by the winds to subsido in the Galf of Pochili may be estimated by millions of tons.

up by skilled experts, iu a procaised supple-year moving dust, the effect of the colic erosion

increase largely mentary volume,

of the loess, forms an atmospheric pall over the knowledge on both these subjects.

One of the main objects of Dr. Hedin's ro- searches was to solve the important question of the drainage of Eastern Turkestan, and throw light on the baffling problem of Lake Lop question, we may aid, which for twenty contu- rics has sought a satisfactory solution. It is mean achievement not only to have closed the geographical problem, but to have explained the physical cases in operation which have con- duned to bring about the present conditions. Historically, Lake Top first appears in the pages of the Shi-Ki when the traveller Chung Kien describes it under the simple nume of the "Salt Murs." This was in the second century Its traditional history goes back many centaries further-prior indend to the establish ment of the Chinese Stute.

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Myth and tradition, iu that they do not arb in some respects consciously lie. superior to history. True, they require to be judged by different canons. Their evidence is circumstantial, not direct, and horein le both their strength and their

weakness.

Dr. Hedin's work of expleration, though the elucidation of the Lop Ner problema, which for so many ages has baffled research, night fairly have been considered as sufficient for one journey of exploration. by no means ended with his circuit of the entire lake depression of the Gobi. Setting out from Stockholm on Mid. ammer's Day 1999, he arrived at Kashgur af the 16th August. This fact alone emphasises the surprising political changes which have made what less than fifty years ago was reckoned in the case of Vambery to have been an act on hercie devotion, a matter of plain every-day voyaging. Nor does our author claim any special adventure, beyond the fact of bis having

Inspector Watson. General Inspector in tor-houses, said that the defendent was the San Lee Buteler as far as ho know, who had been the Military Contractor since the 1st April The witness passed cattle before they were slaughtered. The defendant had a large number of cattle in reserve. Eight of these were sick, some were under observation, and some had died; this, however, was not unusual.

Chief Detective Inspector J. W. Hanson gave evidence as to the defendant's arrest.

The case was adjourned.

EMBEZZLEMENT.

A Chinese bill-collector of the Mutual Stores, who had collected money and went to Mucas to spend it for his master," was sentenced to two months' hard labour, Mr. Kemp said a good punishment would have been to place him in the stocks in front of the store, but he did not enforce this. The Chinese, perhaps, prefer a week in gael to an hour in the stocka-tkuy

"lose face."

VAGBANTS.

THE SUBMARINE EXPERIMENTS,

London 21st March.

Apart from the accident which led to the loss of the df. the Lords of the Admiralty are

satisfied with the result of the submarine expori- manœuvres. off ments during the naval Portsmoute. The diver who descended and examind the ball of the 31 (iu 15 fathers), considers that the propeller of the Berwick Castle forced up the lid of the corning tower,

with the result that the submarine was flooded, and immediately sank.

"TO COMPEL HOME RULE.””

London, 31st March. Speaking at Manchester, Mr. John Red- mond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, said the policy of the Nationalists was to secure the balance of power between the English par- ties and so compel the granting of Home Rule fer Ireland.

CHINEN LABOUR FOR THE RAND.

Londou, 22nd March. Cornish winers at present working in Four of the most disreputable Chinamen imaginable, men cludiu tatters and with hair the Transvaal have written home express- tion of Chinese labour for the aines; and ask. in a wild state of fifth, and a youngster, were ing themselves as favourable to the introduc charged with being vagrants. The five coming their friends to support the Transvaal

Chinese Importation Ordinanco. panions had unlawfully used a pigstyo es lodging-house.

The mon were sentenced to 14 days' hurd inbour, and the boy was bound over in a personal bond of $25; or, if he could not find the money, to go to prison for six weeks.

on the siret to undertake it, in his voyage by boat down the Tarim, which represents ir Eastern Turkestan the combined flow of the Oxus and Jaxarts in the West. Curiously orough, when he least expected it ho was within In the pages of the Han Shu we find Lop.monstrable listance of the echoes of the great under the name of the Pokeh'ang, apparently Boxer upheaval in North Ching, having been, for Bogshahr, more extensive than in modern

whilst the Legations were besieged in Peking, times. It apparently stretched from the pro- within a couple of days' journey of the border sent Shara Lake some distance N.E. of Shachow fortress of Shachow in the extreme west of to the Moslem Kars Kochun, and it partod Kansu. Amongst the many Chiness officials the two great routes from China to the Pamirs, whom he met in the New Dominion, and of which ran respectively along the flanks of the many of whom he speaks in high terms, not one Tienshun, and the mountains called by modern

made the slightest allusion to the current of

POLICE MAGISTRATE). geographers the Kwenhun. But Lop, even in

events in the East, of which they must haves direct information. Hig journey

Inspector Williamson charged a Chinaman the period of the former Kun, was but a vestige had

twolve months had of its former self. In the so-called "Tribute" for the first

been for gambling in the street. The man was fined of Ya of at least some centuries earlier we find continod to the hydrographic exploration of $5 or 14 days. Inspector Williamson said a the great basin of Eastern Turkestan, and one deal of gambling went on but it was very hard in reading his pages knows not whether to admire the singleness of purpose which directed to catch the offendors.

it called the Tokshui, which modern Chinose render as Work Water and assure

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it was so weak that it could not support

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rather Yok is feather. rendered as "dead" or "dying," and the disappearing habits which mark it to-day, and the absolute absence of definition, along its shores, were then as conspicuous as to-day. At still earlier date geology teaches us the Julse

the last Heu, uvast inland remains of a former Asiatic. Mediterranean, and the survival of theso ancient legends the contemporaneity seams to testify to of the last stage with the human occupation of Central Asia. In the alternative name by which the P'och'ang Lake was known to the early Chinese of the "Salt Marsh" we have a

clus to its modern appellation of Lop, which is really the rendering back into the old Aryan speech of these districts of the Chinese Inch'ak. ie., Lavapa, ie, the Salt-Water."

The country about the lake occupied at pre- sent by the Desert of Gobi was in the time of the Hans, and down at least to the fifth century, known as Kushi, or Gash. It is characteristic of the unalterable character of the population that the names still survive. During the Han period this district was fairly well pooled. It was, howover, sadly wasted by the Hinng Nu Turks, and we find the Emperor Wu Ti settling it with military colonists. Dr. Hédin is mani festly in error in giving, on the authority of Mr. Mituly, to the remains of a small town on what was once the site of the lake, the name of Leolan. Leolan originally represented the pre sent site of Chenchen in the course of time, with the change of pronunciation which marked the former Hans, the characters were found unsuit- able, and now ones, with the value of Shenshen, were introduced,. The former Leclan does not

Han. It is, appear later than the oarlier of course, possible that Leolan may have ben reintroduced later is the name of a post town on the southern road to Shen- aken, but that name in this new does not, so far as the writer je aware, occur in the histories.

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all his energies to this one end, or to regret that ho did not now and then unbend himself to study as side-lights to the narrative the interest- ing objects which presented themselves in the natural history: the geology, and the archeology of the hitherto unknown districts visited The facta noted in the work will be, however, of the greater importance that they are mentioned incidentally and not as the outcome of any pre- conceived theories; and doubtless when his fuller notes are worked out will afford the basis for a scientific thesis of almost equal importance with the present work.

IMMIGRANTS FOR CANADA.

Londos, 23rd March..

The Canadian Government Labour Bureau reports that the Dominion requires 100.000 mmigrants during the present year, owing to BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (ACTING increased cultivation, railway extension, the development of irrigation, sad the activity in the building trade.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SHORTHAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS."

Hongkong, 14th April. SI-I have been somewhat amused by the grossly misleading statements published by Mr. Warwick Peele in reference to Pitman's system enough to allow me space in your valuable of Phonography, and would ask you to be good columus to say a few words in reply. In me of his many letters to the Press, Mr Peele states that the Pitman system takos three years to learn and requires ten times the cost as compar- LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER-ed with what he is pleased to call his own "Up.

TOILS ON THE 1ST APRIL.

Tytam

(To be continueÂ).

WATER RETURN.

LEVEL. 1903.

1901. Below overflow Below overfor. 39 ft. in 45 ft. 10 in. 36 ft 0 in. 37 ft. 11 in.

Pokfulam. Wongreicheong 34 ft. 2 in. 41 ft. 4 in.

STORAGE GALLONS.

1903. 129,070,000 Tytam... Pokfulam.... 2:400,000 2,319,000 Wongueicheong

lation

1904.

to-date system. His terms for this so-called "Up-to-date" systera are $50 for the course. Then Fitmar's, according to Mr. Peels's. notion, would cost $500! It need scarcely be added that this statement is most absurd.

ANTI-HUMBUG.

I learnt Pitman's system in nine muktaş- and thoroughly without the rid of any fickor. -1904. 163,549.000 and it did not cost me more than $10 After 1,150,000 that period, I was able to write from lictation 506.000 at the rate of about 80 words a minute, Irmy 105,396,000 Total 183,789,006

opinion anyone who has the will to learn will find no difficulty in doing the sali The CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF

VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DURING Pitman system in universally acknowledged to

THE MONTH OF MARCH,

be the best, mud is the only one that anyone 1903. 64,786,000 68,237,000 gallons should learn. The best ennust be beaten ! It Consumption

is a system, too. that does not require pupils to Estiloated popu.

218,000 222,900

bind themselves in thousands of dollars not to Consumption per head per day

9.6

9.9 gallons reveal to others. No matter boir hard and loud, Mr. Peola may blow his own trutapat, and how Intermittent supply in force during the whole

mach he may attempt to disparage the universal of March in both years. CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON PEN- system, the fittest will survive. Many worth-

INSULA DURING THE MONTH OF

less systems have died hard deaths in spite of MARCH.

he most ingenious advertisements Yours, etc., 1903.

1904. Consumption 13,043,000 12,915,000 gallons Estimated popu Intion.

61,000 46,850 The actual name of this district, Gash, car-

Consumption per

6.9 head por day tuinly survives since the time of the Hans. It

6.2 gallons occurs in the name still given to one of the

The Government Analyst reports that the ruined cities visited by Dr. Hedin, und deno-water is of excellent quality.

P. L. H. JONES, minated by him Wash-shalari, but which is

Water Authority. called Gas-Shari by Prejeralski. It also is to be found in the form Khush on the Chinese nap as one of the lakes in the Lop district, and re apparently may trace it in the modern imme f the lake, the Karu (black) Koshan. In the andering nature of the lake, oscillating from arth to south, is to be found the true explana. m of the curious fact that, notwithstanding at it has no exit, it still remains fresh. It: in fact never continued so long in any one ality as to acquire permanent salinity; and sin face of the fact that the entire subsoil of

district is saturated with salt.

aturally, as the ultimate receptacle of the <ce drainage of the Tarim system, we might

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report

TO THE EDITOK OF THE "DAILY PRESS."

Hongkong, 14th April. Sre--I have no time or inclination. to write letters in answer to a bookseller, who, because he finds his books" obsolete," rashes into a time against the "Up-to-date" Shorthand, nor will I again answer "Phonographer." Let someone write who know their subject and are worthy of an answer-Faithfully,

WARWICK PEELL. [This correspondence must now close.--Ep.

On the 14th at 11:30 am. The barometer Las risen in N. China, and in the Philippince, and has fallen in Japan and very slightly in 8. D.P.1 China.

Gradients are slight on the Chios Coast nud Messrs. Lane Crawford & Co. send us a moderato NE. monsoon will prevail in the Forsample of "Gold Reuf" pure cream, the pro- duce of Norway. It is the product of fresh mosa Channel.

cow's milk, sterilised by a special process, and is slated to be entirely free from preservatives. It is certainly the nearest approach to fresh cream on the market, and will doubtless com- mand a large sale in the Far East.

Over the China Sea the gradients are still slighter and light variable winds may be ex- pected in this region.

Forecast:--Light E. to SE. winds; cloudy,

fine.

GERMAN B. W. AFRICA.

London, 23rd March.

a middle ecurse and employ amateur advisers to fore sailing he was asked if the English bad extricate him from the reas into which his owe obtained control of the trust. He would neither; folly had entangled him. The appointment of afirm nor deny, replying, "I cannot snake a Admiral Alexíoff as virtually Russian stray in definite statement on the subject." the Far East relieved of any obligation to report to any of the Tsur's responsible Ministers, was

Mr. Steele had a conference on board the

Occante with Mr. Morgan and Mr. Lee, the ice-paident of the company, which lasted an

hour.

only one of a series of gigantic binmlets which have gone far in destroying the prestige of the Empire. The Tsar is well known to have.

The Globe declares that English methods and surrounded himself with a crowd of irresponsible Ministers, to whom li has recourse when in his ideas will anon be introduced into the company.

The depths to which the trust had fallen werd eyes the ordinary holders of office are not competent. Constitutionally in Russiu, as else exhibited at the auction of Mr. Odall, the Five hundred where, it is held that when once a Minister has Governor of New York's, stock. lost the confidence of his master the latter is preferred shares were bought for ton cents and bound tu dismiss him; but so plain a course has five hundred commen for two cents apiece. On not recommended itself to the mind of the Tsar, hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollar who thinks his interests best subserved by setting worth of first mortgage bonds realised 48,88 a check on the movements of his own Ministers dols. It is reported that Mr. Odell paid 178,600 In connection with this habit of the Tear the dols, for his stock. It is believed that this wil name of a M. Bombrasoff in widely mentioned. end Mr. Odell's upposition to the reorganizatio M. Besarasoff is known to have two darling of the trust: Thursday is the last day for de interests in view. In the first place, he is a positing bonds rauder the roorganisation scheme hater of M. De Witte, and is getterally credited with the inception of the plot which removed him from his portfolio as Minister of Finance,

scheme for exploiting very much in his own secondly, he is known as the originator of

interests the possessions of Russia in Central Asia; these schemes met with no favour from M. de Witte, whence the cause of his revenge, Thirdly, the Tsar, having heedlessly placed himself in the hands of Admiral Alexieft, find himself ontangled in the meshes of his crooked policy, and tinds no way of escape without having recourse to his regular Ministers whom More Burk assertions he thoroughly distrusts. are openly made about the dark superstitious

Widespread interest was created in the earl part of 1902 by the announcement that a man raoth combination of British and America

auspices of Mr. J. P. Morgan, of America shipping properties had taken place under th

Trust fans. On February 4 an agreement wuß entered into by the owners, therein called thi vendors, of the White Star, Dominion, Leyland International, and Atlantic Transport lines the first part, and J. P. Morgan and Co, of t other part. The object of the combination w to acquire the maritims properties and bus nesses of the vendors, The Government ma an agreement with Mr. Morgan, the gener affect of which was to secure that the Briti The Reichsbate, the organ of German Protes-which cast a clond over the private life of the companies in the International Mercanti taptism, declares that the brutalities and usury Tsar; that he believes himself under the special Marine Company should romain British. practised by the German settlers in South-west ban of Heaven is apparent in his daily acts. Morgan undertook that at least half the shif Africa-men who respected neither the native His extraordinary appeal to the higher Powers constructed in future should be bailt for B

in his declaration of war against Japau is only tish companies, and fly the British fag. women not property-drove the Herreros to

one iustance out of many. The extraordinary desperation.

police precautions which he considers necessary to safeguard his person are only indications of a morbid fear of assassination, which is rendering his life a blacker death than death itself. In fact there is overy reason to believe that the present war has been forced upon unwilling Ministers by the weakness of the TanT limisel. So only is the very pecubur course taken in the Trar's Hume by Count Lamsdorff to be accounted for We are aware that it was the fashion to parade before the world the peaceful instincts of the present HAVE YOU TRIED occupier of the throne of Peter the Groat. If, these instinets have been productive of anything, I that thing is certainly not peer. The very Peace Congress at the Hague had a narrow escape of plunging the world in a bloody war London, 24th March.

at all events whole the Tsar was credited with The betting on the University boatrace bet preaching peace abroad, at hone he or his weon Oxford and Cambridge is 13 to 8 on Cam-advisors have been straining their utmost bridge.

ECCENTRIC PARISIAN RECLUSE.

London, 23rd Marcb. Weeks after death had taken place, the re- muins of M. Thibaut, a wealthy Parisian re- cluse, were found in a mummified condition in

the bodroom which he had occupied. M. Thi taut bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to the English Society of Friends, and dirsoted that it The sum of £56,000 sterling was found hiddon should be devoted to the advocacy of peace. behind pictures and under carpats.

TREATMENT OF CANCER.

London, 23rd March. The radium treatment of cancer in the Cancer Hospital has been abandoned because it has proved a failure.

THE UNIVERSITY BOATRACE.

BRITISH LADOUR LEUTYLATION.

London, 24th March. Mr. D. J. Shacklston (Labour) moved in tha House of Commons last night that the wages of unskilled labour in Government factories and shipyards aught not to be less than the standard wage paid by private employers. The Govern- meat accepted the motion.

Mr. Victor Cavendish, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that the Government was determined to be modi' employers, and to set a good example to private firms.

Mr. John Burns moved an amendment that the wages he thase agreed upon between trade unions and employers' associations.

Kr. A. J. Balfour claimed time for considera- tion of this matter. One difficulty was that much maskilled labour was not organised.

The debate was adjourned.

COMMONWEALTH LEGISLATION.

London, 24th March. The Times writes that Great Britain is watching with deep concern the progress of the Arbitration and Conciliation Bill and of th. Navigation Bill in the Commonwealth P..rlia ment. The auderlying principles of these bills occasion uneasiners, and if the proposals of the Labour party are carried the effects ou internal situation of Australia and hor credit outsido can hardly fail to be'serious. The Times states that it is to be hoped that the moderates in the Commonwealth Parliament will avert the mischief even at the loss of some temporary political advantage.

BRITISH ELECTORATE.

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London, 24th March. Mr. A, J. Balfour, the Prime Ministr, is reply to a question in the House of Coun last night, stated that the Government did nut intend to deal with the question of the redistribution of seats this session.

with any show of consistency.

efforts towards the creation of warlike weapons and the collection of warlike stores. It was not from want of pressure from the Tsar, but from the inuste rottenavas of the Russian aystem, that the opening of 1004 found his forces in Eastern Asia after years of preparation at last; taken at a disadvantage.

SHIPPING NOTES.

WEATHER OUTSIDE,

Fine weather is report by arrivals, excepting that there is a little fog towards the north. A curious fact is that the German cruiser fansa experienced fog while other vessels arriving from the same direction about the same time had fairly clear weather. The Hanso, apparently gave the coast a wide berth and the others di not.

ITEMS.

The Chinese-owned Hong Bee, from Penang yesterday, had some 850 Chinese passengers. She had 1.330 tons of cargo for Hongkong, 260 tons for Aroy. The Yennan arrived with a mail from Newchwang yesterday. The Russian military authorities have instituted strict shipping rega lations there. The C. N. 7kinan, from Australia yesterday, had 900 tons of cargo for Hongkong. She is on her way to Kobe.

RICE.

The P. C. Klao, from Bangkok, brought 800 tons of rice for Messrs. Butterbeld & Swire. The Petrarch, from Saigon yesterday, has 1,900 tons of rice for Bauder, Wieler & Co. The Paklat, from Bangkok yesterday, has 2,000 tons of rice and 200 tons of timber for Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.

STEAMYER MOVEMENTS. The M.M. steaner l'olynesien, with the next French mail, will leave Saigon on the 15th-ins1., at 1 p.m., for this port.

The Imperial German mail steamer Roon, which left here on the 16th ult, arrived at Genoa on the 12th inst., at 4 p.m.

The N.P. etean or Tremont left Yokohama for Victoria and Tacomas on the 12th inst

The N.P. steamer Victoria arrived at Victoria? on the 11th inst.: -

The steamer Algoa, from San Francisco arrived at Manila on the 14th inst

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