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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Augast 26, Meridian, Siamnoso 3-in sehr

295, F. Schmidt, Bangkok 10th August, General.--Chinose. August 26, Wugrier, German schooner, 179, A. Dibborn, Dunedin, New Zealand 22nd May, Scrap Iron. --Captain. August 27, Ningpo, British steamer, 761, Casa, Shanghai 23rd August, General-Siemsson & Co. August 27, Brutus, Gorman steamer, 460, Voego, Hollow, Hainan and Macao, 25th August, General.-- Wieler & Co.

August 27, Ağa, British str., 1,549, Alox. Kidd, Shanghai 20th Aug., and Foochow 25th, General, Butterfield and Swire. Angust 27, Marlborough, British str.,

1,175, R. Sanderson, Swatow 26th Angust, General,-Butterfield amel Swire,

August 26, Quinto, German steamer,

874, K. P. Thomson, Victoria, Vancouver's Island, 21st July,

Coals. Ed. Scholihass & Co. August 27, Vorwaerts, German steamer,

613, II. Evers, Tourane 21th August, General. -Wieler & Co. August 27, Himalaya, British steamer, 514, Beedle, Canton 27th August, General-C. M. S. N. Co. August 27, Prochow, British steamer,

709, Thos. Clegg, Cauton 26th August, General -Butterfield and Swire.

DEPARTURES. August 20, Yotrung, British stemper,

for Touron.

August 26, Metapedia, British steamer,

for New York,

Angust 26, Menzatch, Frosch steamer,

for Yokohama.

August 27, Anadyr, French steamer,

for Shanghai. Angust 27, Peki, British steamer, for

Shanghai.

PASSENGERS. ARRIVED.

Per German steamer Brutus, from Hoihow, &c, 16 Chinese.

Por British steamer Marlborough, from Swatow, 762 Chinese.

Por German stearuor Vormaris, from Tourane, 80 Chinese,

Por German steamer Quiple, from Victoria, Vancouver's Island, 3 Chinese, Per British steamer Ningpy, from Shanghai, Mr. W. de St. Croix, one European deck, and 38 Chinese.

Per British steamer Ajax, from Shanghai and Foochow, Me. Mrs. Walkinshaw, 3 children and 5 servants, Messrs. farton, Drought, Schroeblin, and Mys, and Miss Roberts, and 11 Chinese.

SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamer Brutus, from Hoihow, &c, reports fine weather throughout.

The British steamer Marlborough, from Swatow, reports fresli winds and squalls from N.E. to S.W.

The British steamer Aje, from Shanghai, &c., on the evening of 25th instant, and morning ou 26th, reports experienced strong Ñ.E. to N. gale.

The German steamer Quinta which arrived this morning reports left Vic- toria Vancouver's Island, on the 21st July, on leaving port N.W. gales, then Formosa Channel,

trade winds to thence fine wonther to port.

The British steamer Ninggo, from Shanghai, reports light Easterly winds and fine weather with very heavy swell from Eastward during first part of the voyage. Tattorly as far as Lammocks strong North wind with very heavy sea and low barometer (29.60); thence to port fresh S.W. winds and fine wea- ther.

MACAO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1881.

prox,, and during the last three days the procession will parade through the streets of the Holy Oity. Two com- panies of actors have been engaged, and | for this occasion the performances will gratis. The wealthy Chinese Merchants have subscribed cluse on the exponses of $45,000 towards

A large number of our this j Chinese follow colonists will leave this for Macao to witness this brilliant dis- play, and we learn that all the Chinese inus, hotels, and some empty shops and dwelling-houses have already been secured for the occasion.

ABSTRACT OF "PEKING

GAZETTES."

The following are taken froin the N. C. Daily News :--

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secured; and time after time Princes and High Ministers were sent to carry ont their directions. This continuod

during several scores of years, until tens of millions of taels had been ex- pended by the authorities or the people in the digging of canals or the cons- traction of dykes, as the ease might be,

before the work could be carried to

completion. Floods and droughts nevertheless occurred despite all this labour and expense; as, for instance, the overflow of the Yung-ting River in the fifth of Yung Chông, twelve months after the completion of the works, and some thirty departments or districts were flooded. At the same time the

attempt to create a district of irrigable land proved a failure owing to the want of water necessary to irrigate it, and before long, in spite of the labour that had been expended, it became June 30th.-(1-2) Decrees directing quite dry as before. The bed of this the Board of Revenue to consider the river is narrow and little land is avail- returns presented by the Superinten.able on either side for widening it, dents of Live Stock and House. Duty while the loose nature of the soil is for the East and West Divisions of continually causing landslips along its Peking respectively, of the collections banks; added to which the current, for the present year, both of which which is very rapid, carries down with show a deficit on the surplus assess. it quantities of inud and sand which cause sandbanks to form, and the river (3) The Governor- General of Hu. banks, formed of loose earth, to cave Kuang Provinces reports the transmis.in. In its upper waters the channel sion of the following instalment of the Lkin revenue on salt to Peking:-

mont.

Present renitiuace.

Tis. 20.000

Asscastment for the year.

Tla.

200,000

(1) The Governor of Honan also reports the despatch of the following

remittances on account of the land-tax collection:-

Prescut remittango, Assessment for the year.

Tis.

Me 200,000

30,000

(Second instalment). (5-6) Kuang Ying, newly-appointed Superintendent of Imperial Manufact- ories at Hangehow, reports that he took over the scals of office on the 21st of May, and Wen M'nci, the outgoing Superintendent, that he gave offer charge on that date, handing over the balance in hand to his successor.

of

July 1st.-(1) Memorial from Li Hang-chang, Governor-General Chilli, submitting his views, in answer to an Imperial decree, on the subject of the improvement of the water-ways of Chilli, the names of the Governor and Governor Adjoint of the Sham-t'ien Prefecture being associated with his

own.

come

runs amongst high mountain ranges, and has the force of water poured from a musc.top, so that when the waters rise in consequence of heavy rains they

rushing down with tremendons foren, filling for a time the rivors they food to overflow. ing. When these freshets have sub- sided, the head of water is so insig- uificant, that in spring and winter ves- sels got around. The character of these rivers is widely different to that of the southern strenuus, the bed of which is deep, and the soil composing the banks of a consistency that will stand the strain of a heavy fall of water. The sources of these southern rivers, too, are remoto, and there is no inter- ruption to their flow, as in the north, at certain seasons of the year. The difficulty of maintaining an efficient water system in Chilli was appreciated by Ilis Majesty the Emperor Ch'ion Lang, who acknowledged the failure that repeated efforts in this direction had experienced, and since the reign of Ch'ieu Lang the want of funds had precluded any serious efforts to im- prove the water system, which has gone on from bad to worse year by year. In the province of Chibli there are five largo rivera, viz, the Yung- ting, Ta-ch'ing, Ha-t'o, and the nor

thern and southern sectious of the Grand Canal (the latter more com- monly known as the Pello, and the former as the Grand Canal) Those five rivers have over sixty tributaries, all of which were originally furnished with sluices, weirs, and dykes, but there is not a single one of these now perfect, nor a single one of the chat. nets of derivation that drain or supply these fributaries which is not obstruct- ed at some point or other. As the main rivors silt up, their heds get high- and bigher; and the bed of the Yang ting river in particular, which ovon in the days of Yung Chong and Chien Lung was already higher than the surrounding country, is now several tens of feet above the fields on either sile of it. The four great reservoirs, again, known as the hm and pei Po, and the tang and hsi Tien, into which the waters from the S.W. and N.W. respectively used to drain, have in part become plough land, so that the only outlet that now exists is that branch of the trifurcated system at Tientsin In that meanders towards the sea.

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(where it is known as the Hun-ho)! downwards, would entail such an immense expenditure of labour and inoney as to detor him from even lay- ing estimates bofore His Majesty that would amount to millious of taels; and this is only one of the five rivers. Ho next proceeds to show that during the years he has beon in offics he has not been wanting in efforts to improve the water system; efforts that have not failed to improve matters somewhat. At list of the work done by him occu pied several pages of the Gazette, and he closes his report with a suggestion| COFFEE, SUGAR, &c., &c. that nothing should be commenced on a wholesale scale, for the few regiments | of troops Tso Tsung-tang proposes should be used could never accomplish a tithe of the work, apart from the fact that the 20,000 men which compose the army under memorialist's direction could not be spared from their regular duties.

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He premises that the water sys- tom of the Metropolitan province is a matter that affects both Imperial and popular interests, and the question of. their maintenance in a due condition of efficiency is one that admits of no doubt. Ever since his appointment to the chief control of this province he has never failed to keep this fact before him, but his action has been restricted by local conditions and the want of funds, while the rivers and reservoirs have fallen into such a state of inefficiency that any attempt to restore them cannot now be attended with unmixed good. They have at tracted attention so far back as the Sung dynasty, right on to the time of the Mings, but the works attempted have not been attended with permanent

At the close of ly beneficial results. the Sung dynasty, during the ora of the northern Sung, one Ho Cheng-chi constructed a line of dykes on the level ground in the district of Isiung au the sub-Prefecture of Pa Chow to keep in the water and lead it into a reservoir, placing troops on the land in the vicinity of these dykes, who supported themselves by farming, and acted asia frontier force. The remains of this work are to be seen at the present day in the reservoirs known as the Tung tien and Hsi-tien. At that time, how-ordinary times, even this outlet is in of the finest quality, from Coolalta. sufficient, and during the high tides Vineyard, Branston, Hunter River, of autumn the strong is driven back,N.S.W, and, like a human body under analo- gous conditions, the whole system, from the throat downwards, suffers at every point. Hence, in years of heavy. rainfall, the waters overflow in every direction and floods occur everywhere, baing most felt in the four Prefectures of Shun-t'ion, Pao-ting, Tiertsio and Ho-chien.

ever,

the northern region was for the most part uninhabited, and the country boyond the dyke was occupied by a hostile Power, so that it was ณ matter of indifference whether this region beyond the dykes was flooded or suffered from drought. As time went on, population increased, and more and more country was brought We learn from Chinese sources that under cultivation, until there was no a grand procession will shortly be held waste land at all, and it became no at Macao in honour of the intercalary longer possible to occupy a tract of birthday of the great warrior god Hong-country as an outpost for purposes Kung. The birthday of this doity falls of defonce, and the control of the water on the 6th day of the intercalary 7th system became a matter of extromo moon (31st inst.). In front of the Hong- difficulty. During the prescut dynasty, Kung temple, a large matshed is being the Emperors K'ang si and Clien erected, and thore will be grand pro- Lung made repeated visits of inspection cossions, illuminations and fireworks in through the provinco, and themselves honor of the occasion! The celebration laid down rules for the regularisation will commence on the evening of the of the water systom, pointing out the 30th inst, and will last until the 4th manner in which this object was to bo

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Hongkong, August 11, 1881.

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