JAPAN NEWS...
The Government has allotted a sum of three thousand you to Shidzuoka- Ken, for the relief of sufferers from a fover which now prevails in the vari- ous districts of that prefecture.
It is said that the meeting of the Local Governors will be held in the capital early in February uext, ander the presidency of His Excellency Gene- ral Yamada.
Mr. Yoshida Masaharu, who was sont to Persia last year, and returned lately, after proceeding from that conn- try to Turkey and England, was pre- sented to the Emperor on the 25th ult., and had the honour of describing in } part the countries he had visited.
Official announcement has boon made of the birth of a daughter to the Em- poror, who has roceived the news by telegram.
On the 29th ultimo, Admiral Yono- moto received permission from the Bu- rean of Decorations to wear the Order of the Lion recently presented to him by the Shah of Persia.
It is reported that the three prin eipal statues belonging to the Gokura- kuji temple, in Katagi-mura, Adzuki district, Sauuki province, all of
pure gold, and valued at fifty thousand yen, were stolen during the night of the 20th ultimo; and that due notice has boen given to the police authorities.
His Excellency General Yamagata, now travelling in Etchin and the neighbourhood, is said to project the establishment of a silk factory in Fu- seki.
The Akebono Shimbun hears that the sugar plantatious in Formosa have been considerably damaged by storins, and that the crop is seriously threa- tened.
The Governor of Tokiyo Fu has reported to the Government that cof- foe plants, imported from Hawaii last year, are growing luxuriantly in the Bouin Islands.
The Chaya Shimbun remarks that the dock now in course of construction in the Hiogo Engineering Establish- meat is designed on a great scale, and will involve in its completion an qut- lay of more than two hundred thou- sand yen.-Weekly Mail.
LATEST COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE. Thursday, August 18th, 1881.
One o'clock P.M.
As usual on mail days, business in shares this morning has been of a nominal character, and there was nothing done yesterday afternoon worthy of special comment. Docks are still on offer at 48 without finding purchasers. Banks have not even been mentioned. A few of the Chinese Insurances Company's shares were sold yesterday at 300, and a few more could be obtained at that price. Chinese Fires are not quite so firm as they have been, and sellers are offering the stock at $285 per share, without, however, finding customers. Sugars, on the other hand, are rather firmer, holders of the stock asking for $155 per share, ex, div. They were previously on offer at $150, Å good deal of business has been done in the Chinese Silver Loans of 1878 and 1881, and both may now be quoted at the same rate, namely 31% premium. Exchange quotations are one-eighth better than yesterday in telegraphic transfers, and other rates.
remain unaltered.
Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Shares-106 per cent. premium, ex Div. Union Insuranço Society of Canton- $1,675 per share ex dividend, China Traders' Insurance Company's
Shares-$1,700 per share.
North China Insurance Company-Tls.
1,125 per share.
Yangtze Insurance Association-Tis.
820 per share.
Chinese Insurance Company,
per share, Sales.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, AUGUST 18rn, 1881.
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam boat Company's. Shares-21 por share promium, Sellers. China Coast Steam Navigation Com-
pany-Ts. 162 per share. Hongkong Gas Company's Sharos→→
$82 per share. Hongkong Hotel Company's S red-
$110 per share, Sollers, Chiun Sugar Refining Company, Li-
mited-$155 per share, Ex. Div. China Sugar" Refining Company (Do-
benturos) per cent premium. Hongkong Leo Company's Shares→→
$1273 per share, Søllors. Hongkong & China Bakery Company,
Limited-$431 per sbaro. Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1878-34 % premium. Chinese Imporial Government Loan
of 1881-34% premium.
Exchange,
8300
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On Tai Insurance Company, Limited --
Ts. 148 per share. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company
Shares- $995 por share. China Fire Insurance Company's Shares
-$285 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & Whampion Dock Com. pany's Sharos 48% premium, Sellers,
On LONDON,-
Ou PARIS,-
Bank Bills, T.T.,
Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight, Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, Credits, at 4 months' night, . Documentary Bills, at 4
months' sight,
3/81 388
3/89
3/9
Bank Bills, on' demaud, ...... 1.63 Credits, at 4 months' sight, ...4.73
2321
2924
Bank, T.T.,
72
Private, 30 days' sight,
723
On BOMBAY,-
Bank, T.T.,
On CALCUTTA,----
Bank, T.T.,
On SHANGHAL,-
Hongkong Temperature.
(Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s Register, Queen's-road).
I
HONGKONG, 17th & 18th August, BAROMETER-1 P.M.
.29.756
Do.
4 P.M...........29.722.
....85. .82.
THERMOMETER-1 PM.
Do.
4 P.M.
Do.
1 P.AL. (Wet bulb) 82. Do.
4P.M. Do 79. BAROMETER A.M. THERMOMETER- A.M.
29.808
...80.
Do. 931. (Wet bulb) 78. Do. Maximum
..85.
Do. Minimum (over night) 79.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
August 17, Marlborough, British str., 1,175, R. Sanderson, Singapore 10th August, General.-Batter field & Swire. August 17, Sand, British steamer,
1,078, Reeves, Nagasaki August 13th, General.-P. & O. S. N. Co. Angust 17, Carisbrooke, British str.,
960, H. Wharton, Swalow 16th August, General.--Bun Ilin & Co. August 17, Nona, German steamer,
689, H. Waeffel, Saigon 12th Angust, General-Ed. Schellhaas & Co.
August 17, Brindisi, British steamer,
2,261, Geo. Lee, Tandon 15th June, Bombay 30th July, Gulle 5th August, Penang 10th, and Singapore 12th, Mails and Gen- eral.-P. & 0. S. N. Co.
DEPARTURES.
August 17, Gaelic, British stewnor, for
San Francisco, &c. August 17, Gervase, British steainor,
for Amgor River.
August 17, Menmuir, British steaner.
for Foochow August 18, Kang-chi, Chinese steamer,
for Hoihow. August 18, Pernambuco, British str.,
for Saigon. August 18, Norden, Danish stoamer,
for Shanghai.
PASSENGERS
ARRIVED.
Per Marlborough, British steamer, from Singapore, 170 Chinoso.
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Por Sunda, British steamer, from Nagasaki, 2 Europeans dock, and 7
Chinese.
Por Carisbrooke, British stoamor, from Swatow, 455 Chinose.
Per Nonu, German steamer, from Saigon, 156 Chinese.
Per Brindisi, British steamer, for Hougkong. From Southampton. - Captain T, M. G. Thackeray, Tat West India Regt., and Lient. J. E. Bearcroft, R.N. From Brindisi.-Mr. M. Murray,
From Penang.-Surgoon Brisbane W. Large, and 22 Chinese. From Singa- poro.-34 Chinese. From Singapore
for Yokohama,-Mr. Dollmaun. From Bomuny for Shanghai-Mr. Gubbay.
some years loss. At intervals of 25 or 30 years the ravagos of the disso seem to attain the greatest fury. Bo tween those intervals there are years when the disease is more prevalout than in others. This is the Stli
your since the last great panic. As wo hare Per British steamer Gurlie, for Yo-opportunity we will endeavour to obtain kohama, Mr. F. D. Palmer, General Van the most approximate estimates of the Buron; 4 Europeans and 2 Chinese deaths from cholora since the 27th ult. steerage. For San Francisco, Capt. H. Nelson, and 280 Cliinese.
DEPARTED
SHIPPING REPORTS.
The German steamer Nont, from Saigon, reports fine weather with Sontherly winds
The British steamer Carisbrooke, from Swatow, reports had much rain aud variable winds from N.W. and West, with heavy S.S.W. swell.
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.
Ever since the early days of electric science the aim of all electricians has
for the
been to discover some mound of 'utilis ing the enormous force which can be developed by electricity, and an impe 4.us was given in this direction by the construction of powerfull dynamo-magnetic machines purpose of the electric light. Na- turally the first thought was to trans- mit the power thus generat d to mac- hinery, which could thus by worked at a considerable distance; and following this came the idea of locomotion by electricity. Dr. Siemens, whose elec- trical researches are well known, has long thought of employing those ma- chines for working elevated railroads, The following mails will close and in the summer of 1879 the model To-day, 18th August,-
The British steamer Sunda, from Nagasaki, reports fresh and strong S. E. winds for two days after leaving with high Southerly swell; thence moderate variable winds and cloudy weather until arrival at Hongkong.
MAILS.
For the United Kingdom and En- rape via Brindisi; to the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmalı,
of an electric railway was shown at the Berlin Exhibition similar to that exhibited during the past few weeks at-the Crystal Palace. The electrical: force is gonerato by a stationary engine at one end, and the rails thein-
Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, and Mauritius, per
selves are used as conductors of the Zambesi; printed matter ab
p.m., letters at 3 pan. For Straits Set-electricity. The cue itself is the con- tlements, per Carisbrooke, at 1.30necting link, and contact can be made p.m. For Manila, per Emny, at
or broken at ploasure by a lovor in 3.30 p.m.
For Pakhoi, por Tang charge of the guard. This communi- cates through a wire brush with ting, at 5 p.n..
a central rail, insulated by being To-morrow, 19th August,--
supported on wood blocks. Through For Straits and Bombay, per Adria, this rail the current is sent from the
at 3.30 p.m.
For Nagasaki and primary machine. When contact is Yokohama, por Sanda, at 5 p.m. made the electrical circnit, being com- For Kobe and Yokohama, per plete, sets in motion a quail dynamo- Niigata Maru, at 5 p.m. Bangkok, per Consolition, at 5 p.m. For Hihow, Takhoi and Haiphong, per Olympia, at 5 p.m. For Shanghai, per Chinliang, at 11.30 a.m.
For
machine beneath the car, and this in turn moves the wheels. The current passes away through tiro tires of the wheels to the exterior rails, whence it is conroyed by a wire back to the primary machine. Tus Railway at the Crystal Palace is exhibited by the Syciété Anonyine d'Electricité of Brus- sels, is situated on the upper terrace, On Tuesday, 23rd August,-
and is circular, being about 300 yards For Manila, per Esmeralda, at 3.30 long. The engine draws three carriages,
On Saturday, 20th August,--
For Swatow,. Amoy and Foochow,
per Thules, at 5 p.m.
p.m.
On Thursday, 25th August, ---
For the United Kingdom and Ea- rope, via Naplos; to Saigon, Straits Suttlements, Batavia, Bur- mal. Coylon, India (via Mairas), the Australasian Colonies. Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, par Amazone, for printed matter at 10 a.m., and letters at 11 a.m.
SIAM.
containing eighteen passengers, at the rate of ten miles an hour. Dr Siemens has also constructed another railway between Lichterfeldt, a suburban station
of Berlin, and the Military Academy. It is about a mile and a half in length and is working successfully, the time occupied in the transit being about ten minutes. In a country abounding in waterfalls the expense of working such a railway would be reduced to a minimum, a water-power could be use.) for sotting the primary or stationary engine in motion.
A writer in Vanity Fair tells a good story of an Irishman: "He told he was about half landlord and half tenant, and he said that he meant to go in for the popular cry No rint! But how about the land you have lot? said I.
The rint I pay is a fow ponuls more than rint I get, so I'd be in about the same position, and think of the popu larity of it." "
The Siam Advertiser of the 9th July gives the following paragraph regard ing the cholera epidemic in Bangkok:-- A few weeks since we alluded to the. fact that there were rumors that there had recently been some cases of cholera in Rahaang. Since then this disease has made its appearance in Bangkok in na obors calmilate to create alaria. The severity of the to uporary epidemic is past, and people may rest assured that with proper care the pestilence is over. Last Tuesday (June 28th) while
Vionna has several places of refuge at the Siamese temple Wat Sampong, we wero told that on the 2nd of July for the dostituto, enflod " "warming- 7 Chinamen who had died of cholera rooms," whore all persons who are in had been brought there for interiment. need are allowed to make themselves On the 3rd four bodies, two males and comfortable, and are given soup, coffec two females. On the 4th four males. or tea, with bread, free of charge. No At the time of our visit on the 5th, inquiries are made as to character or which was about 10a.m., no bodies, calling. It is sufficient that they say on that day, had yet boon brought for they are cold and hungry. Large stoves intorment. The bodies of persons who warm these places, benches run along had died of cholera, and were reported at the walls, and newspapers are provided, Wat Sakate temple were as follows:- but mainly on account of the advertiso June 27th, 7; 28th, 15; 29th, 16; 30th, ments of help wanted. The food and 30; July 1st, 40; 2nd, 54; 3rd, 61; 4th, drink are given to each person" twice 36; 5th, up to time of our visit, 14. every day, and at night those who need. Wo have a report, purporting to come lodgings are enabled to sleep there. "The from this temple, which gives a some experiment has proved so satisfactory what-soller.death-rate. These state- that anothor place of the kind is about meats are enough to show that the post. to be opened, large enough to accom ilonce has ragod and caused a panie, and,modate eight hundred persons. whatever the actual mortality, it has not reached the alarming dimensions of 1820,1819, and 1873. Full statemonts of the ravages of the cholora in those years are given in our Siam Repository for 1878. Ever since the sovore out break of this postilenco in 1820, thero have been annually cases of oflora in almost all countries; some yena more,
Since
Decomber 6th, forty-nine thousand soven hundred and thirty-six persons have been assisted at those places with food, lodging or otherwise, and be twoen Decomber 15th, and January 20th, not a single instance of suicide traceable to poverty was reported, although self-murder from that cause was not infrequent boforo.-Bow Bells.
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pts. and qts.
NEYEN'S (BODEN) BOUZY,
pts, and qts.
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OUTLER PALMER & C6.8 CHAT- BAU MOUTON. LORMONT, pints,
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Harper's Half-hour Series.
French Novels.
Medical Works,
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Presentation Books.
-Works of reference e. Stationery for Ladies and Office use. Direct from the, manufacturers the best
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