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H.M.S. Cordelia arrived at Kobe on the 1st THE Sessions will open on Saturday. There are inst, from Nagasaki.

eight cases for trial, the most important being that of the Hongkong Hotel robberies. THE Manila Diario of the rath Inst. reports 39. deaths from cholera on the roth, and considers the mortality to be on the increase. The parish of Sampaloc in Manila bas suffered most from the disease.

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THE sloop-of-war Wanderer, which arrived here yesterday, is dismantling is preparation for going into dock, having injured the fore-part of her keel by grounding off the coast of Labuan, THE Chinese Times states that a large deposit of the finest coal has been discovered in the neighbourhood of the Imperial palace of Jeho It appears that in the same region there are 180 gold and galena (silverlead) mines.

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We learn from Japan exchanges that the British steamer Crusader has been purchased by the

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OUK Macao correspondent informs us under to-day's date that Senhor A. Loureiro, the and report on the condition of the harbour of engineer who a few years ago was sent to study

Macao, has offered himself as a Conservative candidate to represent Macao in the Lisbon Cortes. Several residents of the Holy City have received letters from Senhor Laureiro, soliciting their support at the coming election. There being now three candidates in the field, a lively contest ir anticipated.

THE Nagasaki Rising Sun learns from Chemulpo that the steamship Hai Kiong returned from Peng Yang the latter end of last month, and reported about fifty large Chinese junks, lying there, loading beans. Natives are shipping ibitings from Peng Yang to Chemulpo, as they can buy there from Chinese much cheaper than they can in the open ports, and much more business is done in the former than in the latter

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THE steamship Carisbrooke, Capt. R. Cass; will Chater and a number of friends to visit Cape leave here on the 22nd inst, with the Hon. C. P.

Batangan, where the steamer Ardgay is still ashore.Thence the Carisbrooke will proceed to Touron, and afterwards to Hongay in Tonquin, where her passengers will attend the first meet des Charbonnages du Tonkin "on the 31st inst., and also have an opportunity of personally visiting and inspecting the Company's coal- mines. The trip is expected to occupy bout fortnight.

OUR Shanghai morning contemporary of the 9th inst. anys that the tea market has been opened at Klukiang, and some small purchases made at about Tis, 5 above last year's rates. The quality of the ten is said to be fair.

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It is announced in the Peking Gazette of April zoth that, Ching Shan, Vice-President of the Board of Civil Office, has been permitted to retire from the public service, ́:

AMERICAN ideas, we read, are spreading fast and far In France. Poker is all the rage in the The Agents of the Canadian Pacific Steamship-French Army and in the military schools. At Company inform us that the steamer Abyssinia St. Cyr an order has been given that poker left Vancouver for Japan and this port on the playing by the cadets will be considered as an afternoon of the 14th ins, and that the Slike ex offense and punishable, and that orders on the the same vessel, was delivered in New York on paymaster in settlement of poker debts will not the 13th inst

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Hongkong. 7th January 1979

We understand that the Lady and Gentlemen amateurs who lately gave a Concert at the Club Lusitano in aid of the organ for the Roman Catholic Church, will cross over to Macao on Saturday, and give a performance there on Sunday, in aid of the Chapel which is situated on Peaks hil. On dit 'that a contingent of "Badrat will take part in the Contérég

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SAYS the Hyogo News :-The sale of the Government Railways is again mentioned in the vernacular papers, and it is asserted that an arrangement in nearly completed with the 15th National Bank-generally known as the Nobles' Bank-for the establishment of a com- pany with a capital of 70,000,000 yen to take over the lines. The proposal is said to be that the Bank will find 43000,000 yen of the capital required, the household Department 15,00 000, and the rethainder will be raised from the general public. It seems strange that when the disposition in many foreign countries sends in favour of the acquisition by State of all rail opposite policy is likely to be adopted.

standing question of Treaty Revision, asserts THR Fiji Shimpo, in reference to the long that no definite proposals have yet been made by the Japanese Government to any other Power than the United States. Great Britain, it alleges, has consented "with unexpected complaisance '

other States, but France so far displays a more refractory spirit. The Jiji adds, further, that after the United States, Great Britain, and France have been settled with, advances will be made to Russis, Germany, and so on among the remaining Treaty Powers, ACCOUNTS received from Lan-chou Fu (Kansu), according to our Tientsin contemporary say that an unusually large quantity of broken masses of ice has appeared on the Yellow River, coming from the source of the stream and the tributaries of it that flow out of the eastern side of the great Tibetan ranges of mountains. The winter was, it seems, late, but in January it was very severe. This news awakens same fresh anxieties for the permanence of the Cheng Chou embanking. The Chinese authorities, however, here and at Kaifeng Fu, have no misgivings, and we hope their c nfidence will be harne out,

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A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. There were present: His Excelle the Governor (Sir William des Veux); the colonial Secretary, (Dr. F. Stewart); Mr. J. Leach, Acting` Attorney General ; Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Acting Colonial Treasurer; Mr. Messrs. P. Ryrie, C. F. Chater, Wong Shing, J. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Acting Registrar-General; J. Keswick, B. Layton, and Mr. Seth, Clerk of Councils.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

THE LATE STORM, On the motion of the Colonial Secretary the Governor's recommendation that $3400 be voted for repairing damage caused to roads outside the City during the storm of the 29th April was referred to the Finance Committee.

NATURALISATION..

sirous of naturalising, passed his first degree,

Li Man Shi, otherwise Pokshan, being de-

SLAUGHTERHOUSES.

A Bill to amend the Ordinancerslating to these

was read a first time,

THE POST OFFICE.'

did not expect when they bought it, while. I found that they would not have produced a satisfactory state of things within filleen or twenty years*-*-* that being the average life of a house here, and as the clauses were not to come into operation until the houses were taken down and rebuilt, of course. the thing could not be considered satisfactory until the whole of those to which there objec.... tions were made had been rebuilt. Then it occurred to me whether, there was not some other means of achieving the same end without doing any harm to any one. There occurved to me, a way, but whether it will be effective or not time only will show. It is an experiment- have consulted some of those gentlemen who, have large public. interests, and they have approved of it. Sup.. posing it cannot, no very great hamm can be done by trying the experiment; we can easily draw in our horns if not successful. The means I alluded to is that we should take up a certain number of houses in this exceedingly insanitary condition-resume them on behalf of the Crown, giving the owners very full com- the utmost compensation, and then rebuild it ourselves, or-I think more preferably-sell the land with the condition to build houses of a Construction such as would satisfy our sanitary regulations. It is not probable that the Goy ernment will lose anything on it, as the "run" on these new houses will be such that the Gov. crnment will be repaid the loss on the land needed for these backyards. That, however, remains to be proved. Besides, if the Government does lose money, it is worth some loss to have the town built in a sanitary condition, instead of remaining in the present state. Then comes the question. of compensation. Resumption, under the present system, is unsatisfactory. Though it may be said that everyone who fcases land does so with the condition before him that if the Government wants to jesume it, it can do so, the Surveyor- General fixing the compensation-though that *may be argued, nevertheless I do not think it is a good argument. I think that unquestionably there ought to be absolute security on the part of the owners of the land resumed that they get | full value, and for that reason. I have taken advantage of this Ordinance to oprave that state of things, not only as regards resumption for this purpose but for all purposes. Whether I bave kit on the best. method is a question to be considered in Com- mittee, but I have devised, with the assistance

A bill to smead the Post Office Ordinance of gf the Chief Justice (who is now gone home) 1887 was read a first time.

CHINESE DWELLINGS,

The first reading of a hill entitled The Crown Lands Resumption Ordinai ce was next.

His Excellency said I wish to explain the circumstances under which this Bill is intro- duced. It will be in the recollection of the hon. members that last year, or the year before, the Public Health Ordinance was introduced, in which were certain clauses on the subject of backyards, which gave rise to a large amount of discussion. These were, for reasons which

dinance lately passed on the appeared good to my predecessor, omitted from the Ordinance, but re-appeared in the Or tion of buildings. On inquiring into the matter I found that while there were strong reasons for improvement in the direction desired, on the whole it seemed to me that the feeling created would be greater than the evil they would remove. On the other hand I was quite con vinced of these evils, for I went personally and type which

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saw some Chinese houses of certainly struck me as being very remarkable, and such, I am told by old residents in China, as do not exist in China. That houses should | exist here, holding a vast number of people, only some two or three of whom have any light or air during the whole twenty-four hours, that there is absolutely no opening to the outer air at the back, and that the whole of the many tenants in the building-except those only at the front—should be absolutely in the dark and without ventilation, is certainly not only beyond my experience but is something the Government is bound to make an effort to remedy. It was pointed out that after all the deathrate here is not very great in spite of these insanitary conditions, but that is a subject which I think has been scarcely

per 1,000 (I think that was the rate last year, but I speak from memory) is not a very enormous rate but it is an exceedingly high one for any country,

a plan by which all these difficulties are fairly met. There will be a Board, composed of three members, one appointed by the party whose land is to be resumed and one by the Governor, and the Chairman will be one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. I think that Courts of Law, in regard to us, speaking from an Executive point of view, if they do err in considering rights, generally err on the side of individual rights, as against public rights. That is my experience, recollecting cases where th: Government have resumed land and had to pay very large sume indeed. Possibly, under the system which has prevailed here, this may not be so, but this is an exceptional case.

We are rompelled to hold over ihe remainder · of the proceedings until to-morrow.

REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF A

CHINESE CITY.

10,000 PERSONS SAID TO BE KILLED.

The Shanghat Mercury received the following news on the 9th instant from a

A correspondent at Chungking spa

"Lu-chow; a city of some importance in Sie chuen, situate on the Upper Yangisze, about foo

to the south-west of Chung-king, is reported as. being completely destroyed by fire, which broke out on the event' g of the 4th day of the 3rd moon, and burnt furiously till the Toth. Seven of the eight gates of the city are said to be destroyed, and the loss of life, burnt and trampled to death, is estimated at not less than 10,000, Lu-chow is a city that receives large quantities of Manchester goods, under passes, and native merchants" at Hankow and Chung-king will suffer much by this terrible calamity.

ways within its borders, here in Japan an entirely connection with the Examinations held at sufficiently looked into. It is quite true that 32 remarkable fact, remarks our contemporary, that

THE sporting members of the Hongkong com- munity missed a rare treat by being absent from an exceptionally good match at Polo, played at Causeway Bay last Tuesday evening-the 18th Regt, and KA. against the Bankers and Merchants. The former were represented by Captain Collinson and Reynolds and Lieutenants Bramwell and Woodcock, while Messrs. Holli day, Gray, Armstrong, and Whitehead played for the civilians, and we must add, with conspi- cuous success. In the unavoidable absence of the ever cheerful Captain Fletcher, who has from the commencement bean the life and soul of the Club (and with whom we all sympathise in the unfortunate accident which recently befell him) the military players were rather over- matched, the civilians-through sheer hard work and one or two brilliant feats on the part of Mr. Whitehead, who quite excelled himself-scoring five goals to their opponents' one. We are glad to hear that a return match will take place next week. Lovers of this exciting and manly sport should not miss the opportunity of witnessing as exciting a game as can be seen this sid: of India.

WE cull the following statistics of the trade of Japan from the Nagaïski. Rising Sun ––

The declared value of Imports and Exports passed through the Custom Houses of the treaty ports in Japan during March was as follows i

-$ 4,890,564.09. Imports m ***** 6,198,951.92

Total **:

*******$11,089,516.01 This shows an excess in Exports over Imports of $1,308,387.83.

Exports.......

Of the above the following values were passed through the Nagasaki Customs ¡---

Exports enorm$564,110-551- Imports Panaminiai, 403,708.60 $966,819.15

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Total

The revenue collected at the Custom Houses of the treaty poris during March was as follows;

Export Duty.................. ......$ 74,705.04. Import ............... 273,808,58, Storage Fees

1,328.53 Ships

4,633.00 Miscellaneos

3,238.48

-$356,713-63..

Total

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the City Hall on the 27th and 28th December last the Belilios Trustees Have awarded the following prizes

For Boys getting a European Education: 1st prize-Silver Medal and $30, F. Hynd man, Victoria College.

Fan, Victoria College.

2nd prize-Bronze Medal and $26, Wong

3rd prize-$20, F. Southey, Diocesan School, 4th prize-$15, F. Lammert, Hongkong Publis School.

5th prize-$15, M. Fredericks, Victoria College.

For Girls getting a European Education: 2nd prize-$15, Miss A. dos Remedios, Vic toria English School.

3rd prize 10, Miss M. dos Remedios, Vic toria English School,

For Girls learning only Chinese 1st prize-Bronze Medal and $35, Miss Wong Tai Heung, Berlin Foundling House.

Home and Orphanage.

and prize-$15, Miss Fox Tax Liu, Victoria

3rd prize-$10, Miss Li Kin Fuk, Baril Mis- sign School.

Thirty-six European boys, 3 European girls and 16 Chinese girls presented themselves for examination. The Trustees regret that they were unable to award a first prize to any of the ́examinées among the European girla,

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Mr. Ryrie I think it is almost the same as Liverpool,

In case this startling news is true, it is a

it has not reached Shanghal before now, as it is just a month since the fire is reported to have occurred. The source from which we should expect it, is, of course, the native papers, but we believe they had not published a line on the subject. Still, however, this is not conclusive His Excellency-Oh! I think you are proof that a great disaster has not happened, very wrong-England generally has been and we believe it will torn out that our reduced to something like 19 per thousand; Correspondent has something more reliable. and London below 20, se Liverpool than mere idle gossip for his report, inas much as we met a gentleman in Shanghai as being anything can hardly conceive like that my impression is that it is something to-day who was in Ichang less than a month like 24 per thousand. But at any rate I am ago, and he informed us that a Mandario was gulte certain that 32 is a very high rate, for, and that he told him about the fire, mentioning fellow passenger with bf as far as Hankow, recollect, there are two things here which are that three fourths of La-chow were destroyed entirely absent in England, and if these were and that the people were in a terrible plight, taken into consideration by an expert on the This Mandarin, so far as our informant could. rubject it would be found to make an enormous

gather, had lately occupied some high position at Lu-chow, and he was pleased he had been relieved just before the affliction fell on the city. Apart from the telegraph, a month is not too long time for news to reach Chungking by eiter in the ordinary way, and for it to be forwarded on to Shanghai.

BALLAD OF THE TEA SEASON.

difference. First, a very large rumber of people here, when they are ill, want to go to their own country to die, which would greatly increase the death rate here if taken into account. On the other hand, I am told, we get a certain credit for deaths we do not deserve-those of people who are brought here from the Australian Colonies, California, and so on, who are taken ill here and die, death, of course, not being attributable to the unhealthiness of the Colony. But: although that may be the case to a certain extent it is very much out of the way come. pared to what is the case.co the other hand, namely the number of people who go home to dle, and whose deaths may be considered to have occurred in Hongkong. That in one cause. Ther there is another.. :. In civilised: countries It will be found, on examination of statistics that a rate varying between 40 and go per cent, of the deaths in that of infants. under five years of age. Now when we con-

Tây BỪNG BY A WEARY, CHAAKZEE.

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The willow blossom, white as snow Drifts gently on the summer breeze, Along the Bund swift brokers go Glad with expectancy of fees p The weary coolie reati and sees The sunlight on the river chased,

Soft comerehe hum of Laden bees

Ab! I have many teas to taste legi Obi, merry-May 1- 'kwere sweet, I trow, To lie beneath the spreading trees Where daffodils and daisles grow. To rest and dream in perfect ease.

"I dream of sunny'verdant less, s

And sadly wander to and fro Between long tables strewn with teas Soon riverborne towards the seas D Thé ficelest steamers wiil have, raced, And things will slacken, by degrechy But have many teas to taste

A CORRISPONDENT, who is evidently one of "the elect," sends the following wall from Neunking to the Shanghai Courier, under date the 27th ulto, The Chinese are growing more and more in impudence towards foreigners, Here is one more instance of heathen injustice and sider our exceedingly low birth rate it is obvious. contempt of Treaty rights, in Tang-ch'eng, 120 that a very large part of our deathrate has got north of Ngan-king, the students assembled to be met on that account, considering that one in the place for the examinations Hearing of of the very great causes in other countries” is the proposed sale of a house to some Catholic non-existent here, namely the enormous propor-Alas, for me are none of these, missionaries, they went to the ion which the ton of births, children under five years being Around me is the noise and haste missionaries bad just left, and where they had much more liable to die than old people. The Of brokers baggle, weighers' aqueeze been lodged for a couple of days, dragged the

fact of there being so few children renders it-Ab) l'here many feas to taste f eldest son of the landlord before the district impossible to make any very considerable addie Here in my tearpom damp and low magistrate, did the same to two of the middlemen, tion to the death-rate in order to compare it and forced the mandarin to administer Boo blows favorably with other countries. For these two to each of these unfortunate creatures. The latter reasons or death-rate-even if it were amore have ever since been in prison, spending their mal one, and I say it is abnormal-cannot ba hard-earned cash upon the Yamen runners, to by any means a safe guide for us to say that be allowed a little fresh air or to receive the after all we are so healthy things cannot be very whole of, their allotted dally. rations. This is bad. My iden is that if things were gone into it, indeed a crying injustice! Everybody in Chian would be found very high indeed- won't go and acquiring properties in any of the 18 high. I do not think anyone who looks provinces but the authorities seem only, too at the mater dispassionately is otherwise glad to see them bampered by any action not convinced than that 7 the Government la directly proceeding from them. The magistrate, bound to do its utmost to put an end to not daring to oppose the action of the students, a plate of things such as have described the latter, along with some of the gentry, have namely, the condition of a large number, of the gone so far at present in their encouraged houses in Hongkong. At the same time, on mudacity as to forbid entirely the entry of their inquiring ar to these objectionable clauses, I city to foreigners in general. But what, will you found that they would have caused vastity ask are the provincial authorlies doing in the amount of irritation, and friction, and difficulty, Our latest news from Hankow', says, the face of auch glaring violation of treaty rights among the people, who could not understand the Shanghal Courier of the roth inst., is to the That is just what one would like to know. Ab 1 causes of the objection, people unaccustomed to effect that the Hupeh teas would not be on the When will Chipa begin to act according to the our ways, who would have believed to a certain market til to-morrow, but masters of Ningchow principles of her own moral teachings, be fair to extent that we had committed expropriation, by tea, sent up from Kiokiang, were exhibited con

potting conditions on their property which they (the 5th; “Last year the trade was very prodsal foreigners and learn to keep her-word)

Of the above the following amounts were col-knows the right missionaries have to travelling so far as to say it is enormous, but it is very lected at the Nagasaki Customs ***..

Export Duty$ 3,490.65 Import

.......................... 10,865.29. Storage Fees....t

70.75 Ships 1,691.00) Miscellaneous......mid. ↑ 780,21

umina$17,097,86

Total ******* The declared value of Exports and Imports passed through Shimonosed Customs for Corean: Trade during March was as follows ****

pi Shimonoseki

On the above, $750.48 duty was collected:

Envoy Madame If when first the season's teas Your, dainty tablo, shall have graced, Think of the misérable Chaastees Who still have many teas to taste i Hankow, 6th May,

HANKOW TEA SEASON,

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