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Notes froM CHINESE PAPERS,

On 16th July there will an eclipse of the moon visible at Canton, and by order of the Board of Ceremonies the citizens have been notified of the hour and ordered to perform the ceremony called "saving the moan" (by doing their best, with gongs and other noisy instruments, to frighten away the dragon).

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We hear that certain tigers, lions, a large bear, and monkeys of various kinds, have been sold by Chiarini's Circus to the gret garden at Yangtzepoo (on the way to Woosung), and that last Saturday the U.S. Consul General decided the price. It was decided also to engage the services of the lion-tamer, Mr. Frame, on a monthly salary, to take care of these animals.

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in the north-west of Fakien, a province where Wolves appear to have made their appearance they were not known before. Several children are reported as havi. g been carried away and eaten by these beasts. The people call them wild dogs, but from the description given of their sid to rush at people and plant a paw on their appearance they must be wolves. They are shoulder, and on the person attacked looking round they, scize him by the throat with their long teeth and strangle him. When they howl, they lower their beads to earth, which gives the howl a hollow and reverberating sound, and at night their cry is taken for that of a tiger,

A friend who has arrived here after an over- land Journey from Shantung, raye :-At Kan-y Hien, in the Hwai-yaa Prefecture, Kiangsu, the distress and hunger are terrible, as bad as in Shantung, the people even killing and eating west of Hai-chow, he saw 200 or 300 inen with passing strangers, One day's journey south- white flags, armed with muskets, and cannon, surround a village, and besides levying black mail on all the rice that was forthcoming, tie up the pigs and goats and carry them off. He was

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1889.

Vunan opium. New Szechuan opium is now sold at 120 or 190 cash an ounce, down to 130 or 150 wer grades. Yunan is much dearer, superior coating 250 to 270 cash an ounce, inferior 140 to 250 cash.

We have before mentioned the petition-box set up by the Provincial Judge of Canton at his Yamen gate. There is an interesting reply endorsed by the Judge on the petition of one Ch'en Chi-kang :-

ver to them. We'd rumours now went round that the comra te af, th proer, Ch'ung yang licentiate, were heat on vengeance: and foreigners begin to grow alarmed, and, with the Chinese officials, redoubled their precautions with a view of keeping the pence, a strong furce of runners being kept in readines in the Chi- A crowd of Bese quarter Han-low Kow. Chinese loafers all day on the 5th thronged the foreign settlement, the, hule ganzius behaving themselves very mischievously by rushing about shoutin Mr. Ramsay, of the "Tal-ping: Chiến Chi-king informs me that at. Tso-kin

stout sticks, made King (Gold-washer's Ditch,) outside the East at the head of a number of clerks from

the hangs aimed, with Gate of this City, there are very often corpses of raids on the hoodlum assembled on the infants buried, under, very suspicious circum bund, and rent them flying is all directions; stances, indicating foul play. I have accordingly, those who were paping at the whole performance sent officers with him, who discovered and

from a rearward position over the shoulder of arrested Ch'en A-fah, a man employed in these

those in front, coming in for the blows which the burials, and several dead bodies of infants.

vanguard eluded. The next movement was the The Pun-yü City Magistrate at my request.

from the Police Station. For two nights, the stated that the corpses were those of children Chinese civil and military officials were on the made an enquiry into the case. Chén Afah bringing out of certain cannon by the foreigners. alert, and on the 6th July, by request of the adopted to be reared by the Christian church, who had died from natural causes. An inquest Tastai, six or eight tents were put up for soldiers was held which showed that Ch'en Afah's states

of the Chy garrison in front of the Police Station, and the Han-yang foreign drilled troops guarded ment of the cause of death was true; there were no wounds or signs of, bad treatment, and no

the settlement." The Tastai also issued a mutilations, and the suspicions of the people metricals x charactered proclamation, promising to have fair erquiry made into any fracas, and had theicfore entirely vanished. The petitioner has now voluntarily signed a bond not to put warning the people, and to attempt to take the

law into their own hands. false stories in circulation again, as this is a mischievous thing to do.

The Governor of Kiangsi, Teh King, has received at Nan-chang Fu, the capital, à des patch from Foochow stating that there are 7000 to 8,000 men, members of the Kolan secret from the Viceroy at Nanking to the same effect. society, at Kiu-lung Shan, and also a telegram The Governor has sent Yên Ta-shing, a Lieute bant, to Fukien to get information about this threatening assemblage. As Kiv-lun Shan is in the Shan-ch'ang Hien, in the Yen-p'ing Pre- fecture, Fukien, and as the recent fighting took place in the Shun-ch'ang district, we judge that these Kolaus are is league with the Kiangst and Ting-chow men, who have been lording it on a flotilla of 1,co war-boals, (called "cock-boats" from their curved shape), and who have lately sustained such severe punishment at the hands of the large, force sent against them by Pien, Viceroy of Fukien and Chekiang, after which twenty of them, who had been made prisoners by the Government troops were at pnce decapi. tated. The Government of Fukien communicated with the neighbouring province, so that mea: sures might be taken to prevent these banditti from dodging into it when hard pressed by the troops of the Foochow Government.

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FORMOSA.

(FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT.)

Tamsui, 2nd July, 1889, Very hot weather has been prevailing here lately, but for all that the health of the foreign community and natives is good so far.

The work at the railway is only going ahead slowly, as the cutting through a large hill, a mile beyond Sui-teng-ca, the second railway statiori open for traffic, gives a lot of trouble on account of the Bandy nature of the soil. The bridge, which spans the river at Twatkin, for the trains passing to Taiwan-foo, is very nearly already laid towards Taiwanfoo.

carry away the shoals and spits remains to be seen,

Our Summer proper may be said to have begun this week with appropriate thunder-storms. The heat is not great, but there is a decid d monsoon favour about it, so that one can no longer carry his clothes without discomfort; and a breeze is always grateful-Chinese Times,-

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th instant to the 2nd proxima, both days inclusive.

On the evening of the 19th of June we were refreshed with half an inch of rain, Rain has twice since fillen, in all amounting to about two inches, The wheat crop is said to have been a failure in this region. These welcome rains have apparently saved our millet crops. Our case was getting very desperate; the

Princes and high nobles were appointed to perform similar duties at various temples in our Emperor was constantly praying for rain and

neighbourhood. Still the heavens were as brass over our heads and the thermometer indicated regularly a good many degrees over the hundred At last, in despair, orders were issued to bring the dragon tablet from a neighbouring town where it appears to be kept, and it was pre. dicted that rain would follow its entrance into the city. And so it came to pass. In several districts in our immediate neigh-issued to Shareholders on the and proximo. bourhood there occurred a hurricane with hail on the afternoon of the 19th, causing great destruction to the crops and tearing up trees by the roots or splitting and twisting them. A similar hurricane of wind and dust was felt in the capital about the same time, viz., 3 p.m.

Marriages are not of very frequent occurrence at the capital. Occasionally members of the China Inland Mission resort hither to have the knot tied at the British Legation without the formality of waiting five weeks at a port to make marriage possible at a Consulate. Several of our late marriages and would be unions have not

port as a SHARE and GENERAL BROKER. bet without trouble, owing to the difference of HAVE this day established myself at this

J. M. DE CASTRO BASTO, nationality of the parties seeking to be matrimo bap'ismal certificate, sometimes the laws of the Hongkong, 5th July, 189. country, sometimes it is a difference of religion which creates the difficulty,

so alarmed that he hid all day in some long the upper reaches of the Min River lately with finished, and a few miles of mil have been nially united. Sometimes it is the want of a,

grass. This marauding was said, however, to be more on nccount of a clan feud than of hunger.

The row at Hankow had na 'connection with this movement, but it points the same moral, e, that at present there are a number of dangerous people about looking out for a chance of fishing in troubled waters, and that our Government must be more than ever on their guard. The

There is a rumour afloat here that there is an

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undertaking under way to have the Kelang coal mines rented by a European firm for a certain years, and of course, worked under European engineers. That would be a great advantage fur all ships visiting Kelung for coals. Many of then, have now to leave only partly loaded, no coals bei g kep: ready, though the

the mineral. mines around Kelung are rich

Another married member of our small com munity will soon leave us. Mr. Lührss of the 1. M Custrans has been transferred to Ningpo:

be has been here for over three years.

The German barque. Oscar Afooyer arrived from Hangkung, with general cargo for Messrs. Malcanpo & Co, on the 29th June. She, will leave in a few days for Kelung to lead coal for The British three-masted schooner

Amoy.

Zong he arrived from "Amoy with 12,000

cases of kerosene oil on the 27th June, She leaves for Kelong to-morrow-Mercury.

CHEFOO.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

first telegrams received from foreign Bources were very vague and Indfinite. Chinese merchants have now news that there were about 10.co people, more than half of whom were avowedly unemployed" tramps and loafers, who

Wang Chi-ch'un, Provincial Judge of Kuang- announced their intention of "helping the students" but were really on the look-out for atung, determined to give all who seek for justice a chance of being heard, has had a tall box fixed chance of pillage. The condition of the people at his yamin gate, three feet high by four inches in Honan and Shantung is also such as might broad, with a slit at the top into which any one have been expected to produce calamitous results who likes may drop a petition. The good judge to their neighbours: but we imagine from the unlocks it himself night and morning and reads docility and submission these rough people are

these appeals. On the 33rd June, a stranger showing that they have really had their con

from another province, in mourning dress and sciences deeply stirred by the noble efforts made shoes of sack-cloth, dropped in a petition with by their fellow-men to alleviate their sufferings.such a tragic air that the bystanders curiously enquired what was his grievance, and heard the following story:-Arriving at Canton with his old father and his own family to wait for official employment, he had had to wait so long for it that they all were beginning to die of hunger, and he had been obliged to selling on the North-East Promontory, during a his second younger sister to raise the wind. The price agreed upon was 360, and the purchasers, who lived in Kiu-ts'ang Lane, paid, it is true, an advance of $6, and the deed of sale was duly made out and handed to them but on his applying later for the balance of $54, they pretended they had not the honour of his acquain tance; and the seller's old father, on applying to the law to have the wrong redressed, was clapped into the City Magistrate's jail, where he soon died of humiliation and chagrin. The old man's wife also left this world in disgust on 3rd June and to bury her in style, the filial son, the petitioner, had had to part with his third younger sister-whose purchasers paid the price like honest people!

A correspondent in Fukien informs us that anonymous posters are appearing on the walls, in Foochow city, of a dark and mysterious character. Some say these are secret commu nications of the Kolao society, and there are rumours that a number of this association bave a plot for setting fire to Foochow some night in several places at once. It is also rumoured that blacksmiths nt. Nani'ai have received orders from certain desperadoes for a good many huu- dreds of sharp swords, and that on this latter rumour coming to the cars of the city authorities, detectives have been sent to watch night and day for suspicious signs, and inn-keepers have been directed to inform the Yamens of the name and description every guest to whom they give lodging.

The mines of Heilung Kiang lie near the frontier between that Chinese Province and the Russian Amur territory. There are the Tung King Shan and the Si Kin Shan worthy of being named beside the California of the Americans and the Australia of the British which are com- monly called by us, respectively, Kiu. Kin Shan and Sin Kin Shan, the Old and New Gold fields. Here stretches a gold vein of 400 to 500 long, which if properly worked will yield us incalculable wealth, and is now only waiting for capitalists to come forward to supply the work ing capital. It must be confessed that the way these mines were managed before Prefect Li came along was anything but reassuring to Investors; but now we may hope that more confidence will be felt, and that these noble mines may be properly developed.

In consequence of the death of Nang Wan-shao, viceroy of Yunnan and Kweichow, the lately appointed Governor of Hunan, a former Minister of the Foreign Office, has been appointed to the post. Shao Yu-lien, formerly Taolai at Shanghai and latterly Judge in Formosa, and who was spoken of as Minister to London, has been appointed to the Governorship of Hunan.

The Peking Gazette, in referring to the death of Mr. K'ung of the travelling mission in the issue ofthe 19th of June, mentions Ireland for the first me as one of the countries the deceased had visited. Messrs. Fu and Ku, the two members he proceeded to Japan, America, Cuba, etc. have returned to the East; the former is now in Japan, the latter in Shanghai. The two years' period in which the missions were to investigate will be completed in the autumu. V. C. Daily

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Chefoo, 10th July, 1889. We have just been apprised of the loss of the Custonis light-house tender, the schooner Che THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP

COMPANY, LIMITED. heavy gale. She was under the command of Captain Peste, The captain, officers and crew were saved. She dragged both anchors, drove

The schooner, if I mistake. noi, was at one time the property of Mr. C. H. Cooper, of Chemulpo and Vladivostock, who sold her to the L.M. Customs some years ago at a comparatively low figure.

on to the racks and has become a total wreck.THE Company's Steamship

"The Owarri Mazsu for Chemulpo, Fusan and Kobe is just about to leave here.. She is crowded with European passengers and full of cargo, a fresh proof of the wise direction of affairs in the head office of the Nipp in Yusen Kaisha,

"DIAMANTE," Captain G. Tayler, will be despatched for the above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 18th instant, at 4 P.M., instead of as previously advertised.

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HE Company's Steamship

At the present tinie the Kwangche is in port loading for Wei-ha-wei, with iron, machinery and lead. She is commanded by Captain Kiolseth, who, under the direction of the Total of this place, has been running herTHE for a few months to ports in the vicinity of famine-stricken districts, carrying thithet succour to the poor perishing people. It is prob- able that the visits of the Kwangchi have been the means of saving thousands of lives. Captain Kiolseth's duty cannot be very pleasant consider ing he has to run his ship very often to places not indicated on the latest charts. He and his officers, however, seem to be flourishing and as jolly as possible under the circumstances..

The late rainfall has come in time to save the second crops.

According to the first clause of the Russian Treaty, the range of bills called the Hing An But we are pleased to chronicle the existence Chinese tooks, who, during the voyage up to Ling separates our territory from the Rulian, the gold country of Tung Kin Shan lying to the South and that of St Kin Shan or Moh Ho to the North of that range.

The mines under Prefect

Li's superintendence are on these mountains, some 70 or so / from Moh He. All provisions for the mines must be imported overland from Al-hun (otherwise called Saghalia Via, or " Black River", a distance of 1,500 N through Moh Ho, passing Russian territory on their way. Prefect Li intends to effect a reform in this respect, and partly by the employment of steamers and partly by opening new roads, to render it possible to bring from China everything necessary for the

proper working of the vines and out the rid of the personnel with provisions, without the aid

Russian roads.

The new Public Garden at Yangtzepop is now more than half finished. It will be a place of rare beauty, well stocked with flowers and trees and with two lotus ponds. The following animals have been purchased from Chiarini's Circus 2 tigers, 2 lions, 2 leopards, black leopard, a bears, 1 elephant, and about to monkeys. The elephant was a present from the King of Siam, and one bear from the Mikado of Japan, to Mr Chiarini. Houses are being put up for these fera, in the gardens, and as soon as they are built the beasts will move in. The tiger-trainer will make them perform their tricks, we under stand, twice a week, for the amusement of the visitors to the gardens. The gardens will, it is said, be ready in a month. No charge has been made to visitors as yet. As it will be much cooler there by the Hwangpoo than it is at Bub. bling Well, we expect a good deal of traffic will be diverted from the Babbling Well Road to the

The Hupao says:-There are gold mines in Manchuria which may give a better account of themselves than any of our coal or iron mines. Some of the latter, as for instance the Chih-chow mines of Anhui, and the 50-chow mines of Kiangsu, have so far been anything but a success. owing to the difficulties of transporting the mineral to the places where it is required. "But for gold there is a good market everywhere, and all that is brought out of the earth is sold immediately and on the spot. What has stood in the way of successful gold-mining in China is want of method, The Ping-tu gold mines on the Shan. tung Promontory employ about 10,000 persons, the working expenses are Tis. Boon day; but the output daily is only 3 ounces of gold. of a very different state of things at the

the direction six months ago, the woski g Amur gold mines When Prefect Li assumed these mines was commenced with sudden and wonderful energy, and a subsidiary mine was opened at Ho. Here where the gold brigands had worked at their forbidden mines before they were to disastrously scattered by the Chinese Government troops, gold mining is now actively proceeding under the sanction and encourage ment of the Government. At first the outpul was very small, but it has since so increased that during the last ten days of the third moon (20-29th April, 1879) the joint production of both mines was between 50 and 6 ounces of gald dust. There are from gou to boominers employed, and each is finding now about a tenth of an ounce of gold every day; and it is expected that before many more months there will be 3,000 miners working there, and producing 300 ounces of gold a day." Happy shareholders 1.

of

"FOKIEN," Captain Lewis, will be despatched for the above Forts, on FRIDAY, the 19th instant, at 10. A.M.

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Upon the arrival of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's hospital was called on board to attend to two steamer. Hige Marn to-day, the doctor of the

the ship was labouring in a heavy sca. Owing Vladivostok, were almost acalded to death while THE Company's Steamship to the skill and care bestowed upon these disabled Celestials by the counteous and energetic purser, Mr. Locke, it was possible to carry them from they are now lying in our hospital. Vladivostock back to their native land where

H.R.M.S. Espoir from Korea is in port at the present time-Shangkat Mercury,

TIENTSIN

6th July, 1889.

A very distinct shock of earthquake took place at Taku on the 3rd. Inst. about 4 pm. The shock was not severe, but sufficient to rattle windows, and cause lamps and pictures to sway to and fro. The direction appeared to be from S.E. to N.W., the same as the shocks which occurred on the 13th June, 188

Vardim, Commander, will be despatched as above on SUNDAY, the 18th instant.

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TO-MORROW EVENING,

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Assisted by Signor CATTANEO and other talented Professional and Amateur Gentlemen, will give a Special DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE,

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Mrs. AUSTIN POWER,

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The Weekly Times says of her :-" She has a pure soprano voice of sympathetic quality and astonishing compass, and has the gift-so rare -al executing a really perfect shake,"

The Programme will include GEO. M. Fox's delightful Anglo-Irish Comedy the

PRIDE O KERRY," (In which the POWERS" will sustain their original characters, played by them over 500 times), Captain Vereker Mr. D. DURAND. Squire Patrick O'Connor...Mr. AUSTIN POWER. Kate O'Hara (with songs,

Killarney, Mrs. AUSTIN POWER. (The Evening Mail says: "This is really a high class little camely: racily written, well mounted, well dressed, well played, and without a touch of vulgarity.")

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REUTER, JUSTUS FRIEDRICH HEIN- RICH HEYN, & FRIEDRICH ALEXANDER Rent ALFRED BUESING BROCKELMANN, the remaining PARTNERS in the Firm of PUSTAU & Co., Hongkang Canton, and Shanghai, China, have decided to continue the Business of the

said Firm under the name and style.of-

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co. Mr. E. R. FUHRMANN and Mr.. CHR,

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Ceased on the 1st of May, 1985.

MESSES FRIEDERICH

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THE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

FOR the greater convenience of the publice arrangements are now completed for the Office of the Company to remain open until midnight, where Launches can be obtained upon application to the Compradore who is in charge.

Launches always kept under Steam off Pedder's wharf, and are at the service of the public for proceeding to and from any Vessel in Harbour.

SCALES OF CHARGES.

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On Thursday evening, the "Fourth of A letter from Hankow says: After the July, the American Board Mission enter Examinations before the Prefect of Wu Chang tained the Americans of the community at a Fu and the Literary Chancelier from Peking, the very pleasant garden party in honour, of the civil and military students went wandering about national holiday. The large compound was on shore or pleasuring in boats on the river. Now brilliantly illuminated by not less than three the regulations of the settlement are very strict hundred Chinese and Japanese lanterns of that the two roads called the Hui-lu and the various colors, and the stars and stripes floated Tau-pi are reserved for those who have business bravely overhead. There was a fine display of

Chinese and Japanese fireworks which lasted there, and idlers who trespass are at once warned

most of the evening. From the darkness of the off by the police. On 4th July about for 6 p.m., some students ignorant of the regulations were other side of the north wall came a continual strolling in the Hellu by the river, when some firing of rockets from a Briton lying in ambush Chinese police advanced with truncheons to there, a bombardment which the descendants expel them. The two parties began to reeld each of the Revolutionary heroes returned with great other, and then the police ran at the students valour and complete success. The Band was and began to beat them. The students being in attendance, and having exhausted at an quite nearmed, got a bumiliating drubbing early hour all the American airs in its repertory, and went to complain to the deputy, Mr. Tung, played with an equal amount of vim national who pacified them as well as he could, and airs of every description, concluding, of course, A letter from Tchang says:-The new opium promised to represent the matter truthfully to with "America," sometimes erroneously called crop is on the market. Of the seven "Chow" the Total and Superintendent of Customs. He" God. savo the Queen" The party broke up or Hien" districts of the Ichang Prefecture, also sent several of his runners to escort them Tung-hu, (the Hies which includes the Prefec out of the foreign settlement. Unfortunately The gentle rains which have watered the tural city of Ichaug), makes a poor show, but the they met some of their assailants on the way, province of Chihli during the past fortnight have other districts all have very large crops, not how and abusive words were exchanged again, the done incalculable good to the crops... Yesterday JEE, ever, more that 6 or 7-tenths of last year's owing students finally attacking the policemen, who afternoon a downpour of rain, accompanied by to the irregularity of the rainfall this spring and escaped from them into the "Hwa-kee" bong, thunder, was a temporary relief to the oppressive summer. The Shi-nan Prefecture (S.W. Hepeth), (Tuner & Co.s,) and blew their whistles for help. humidity of the last two days' heat, the rain shows a crop 60 per cent, in excess of the Ichang About 20 other Chinese police now came to the continuing, with occasional intervals, until night. Prefecture, and li of excellent quality. Some of rescue, and the students, badly beaten, tan, leaving The recent rains, too, have augmented the waters it is even able to be passed for Yunan opium one behind seriously hurt, who was captured of the Pethe to an appreciable extent: The ebb The Szechuan crop of native opium is very large by a European member of Hwa-kee and tide deca not disclose so much of the foreshore this year, but Inferior in quailty to last years, ran into the Police Station. The civil and as hitherto, and the steamers experience no also owing to frregular rains. It is not nearly military officials consulted together, however difficulty in the Tientsin Reach, but whether the (94, + PRICE Soichilo.FIFTY CENTS so much appreciated out west, bewever, no } that evening, and the student was handed - carrent, which, however, is increasing, will

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