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T'o.tan's Advertisements.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SHANGĦAL

HE Steamship

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"CHIHLI,"

Captain Anderson, will be despatched TO. MORROW, the 11th Instant, at Në ɔn.

For Freight or Paysage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, 11th May, 1906,

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR TIENTSIN, VIA SWATOW,

THE Steamship

*KWEIYANG,"

f397

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896.

Intimations.

We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRITs to be gepulse when bought direct from us the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the

for the non-Chinese population 1.4 per 1,000, the Portuguese contributing at the rate of 28.35 and the British com inmunity at the rate of 32.4. The Chinese birth rate is therefore terribly low, there being only one woman in the Colony to about every four men and there being a heavy percentage of a certain class. Dr. A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. CLARK Is of opinion that to the registered

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 10th January, 1996,

Coast Ports.

BIRTHS.

The China Malf this morning turned the following taller particulars of the Ending, from its Shanghai conespordent, as an "Extn.”

ALL-ROUND CENSURE,

SHANGHAI, Monday, rath May,. The Marine Court of Inqulay into the clecum- stances connected with the disastrous collision st Woosung has larued its finding.

Capt. T. Hards, of the China Navigation S. S. Cock steamer NewsAwang, is held to be la blame for the collision, having been on the wrong side of the river. He is severely censored by the Court, but his certificate is not dealt with,

The Court also finds that Capt. Sleaser, of the Navigation Company's Indo-China Steam wave his ship after the collision had occurred; because the desertion of his crew rendered it | difficult for him to bandie the vessel. He also failed to realize the full danger of his position.

Severe consure is passed by the Court for the disgraceful provision on board the Onwo for

AVIDE le

Tar U.S. flagship Qlympia, the Detroit, York- low, and Machtar will, according to present | arrangements, leave Woosung for Chefoo and

the North on the oth.

Tax returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum, for the week ended. May toth are-Earopeans, 170; Chinese, 1,933.total 2,111.

THE first-class Russian crúlser’Pamiat Azova

The bodies of Captain Slessar, of the Onws, left Nagasaki on the 23rd uit, ostensibly for and Pllet Scott were picked up on the yik fast. | Koren, but, as it was generally believed in that near the Red Buoy, while that of another part, really for Port Arthur, foreigner was picked up later on the same day, MR. EITAKI, the first Japanese Consul to Taxax will be a meeting of the Navy League, Shashi, left Shanghal on the and for his new Hongkong Branch, in the St. Andrew's Hall,, with Mde. Eltakl and family, by the

steamship PuenwO, City Hall, on Friday, the sand May, at 3.15 p.m. when Mr. Francis, Q.C., has kindly consented THE China Gasifis understands that the Total

has received orders to pull down. telegraph lines between Chen-she, Nau-wal, and Chiusanowel, in Postung, which were con- structed dozingthe war.

At Liaoyang, Manchuria, on the 27th April, | born in the Colony but are brought here | steamer Ontzo, failed to make proper efforts to to deliver an address.

the wife of the Rev. GIOROZ DOUGLAS, of a daughter.

At No. 35. Whangpas Road, Shanghai, an the 3rd of May, the wlie of J. W. H. Jor, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE,

"On the 4th Justant, at the British Episcopal Church, Faechow, by the Ven. Archdescon Captain Outerbridge, will be despatched TO- Wolfe, assisted by the Rev. W. Bannister, and

MORROW, the raih instant, at Nose,

For Freight or Passage, anply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agente. Hongkong, 11th May, 18ŋ6.

NIPPON YUSEN KÄISHA.

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FOR KORE AND YOKOHAMA.. *HE Steamship

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Chinese births there ought to be very reconsiderable additions for unknown infants found dead in the streets, or dying in the Foundling establishments, but he must not forget that very many of these are not from the mainland. The death rate in London and thirty-two other great towns in England, having a combined population of over ten millions, averages about fo.8 per 1,000. The death rate for the entire population of Hongkong for 1895 was 22.04 per 1,000; for the non-Chinese portion, excluding the naval and military establishments, 21.07 per 1,000. and for the Europeans alone, taking 2,600 as the resident population, the rate was only 14.9 per 1,000. In England the death rate varles in different towns between 11 and 28 per 1,000, so that Hongkong cannot be

aid to be

The 1 very unhealthy. Medical Officer of Health, however, considers our death rates, especially among the Chinese, as abnormally high, as he deems the population to be from one that ought to be

after at H.B.M. Consulate, by C. F.R. Alles, Esq., JOHN C. OSWALD, of Faochow, to NDA LOUISA DAY. second daughter of the late Rev. A. B. Day, Rector "of Fishponds, near Bristol

DEATHS.

On the and May, on board the Yokohama Maru, CHARLES CHOMIE, of Shanghai, aged 55. On the 6th of May, at 56. Qatnssa Road, Shaoghal, ANDREA NICHOLAS VILOUDAKI, K native of Greers, aged 72 years, and for about 35 years a resident in Nagasaki and Shanghal.

The Court Larues a reries of Important sugges tions for the prevention of such disasters In future, and has communicated these suggestions to the Consular body, the Customs authorities, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, and the representatives of the various Shipping Companies.

REUTER'S MESSAGE.

THE CHARTERED BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.

LONDON, May 8th. The Board of the British South Africa Co. has resolved to defer its acceptance of the resigns resolva is only temporally approved of by certain directors who consider the resignations sincvilable, and who, in the event of Messra Rhodes and Belt remaining on the Board, will resign their sextr.

THERE word twelve cuier of plague from moon Saturday to noon yesterday-eight in the city, one in the Harbour, two in British, and one hom Chinese Kowloos. To nean to-day there were tea case--five la the city, four in Kowloon, and

one from Green Island. |‚THx N. G. Daily News has been requested to Intimate that Her Majesty's Minister on learn. ing the news of the recent disastrous collision between the Onwo and graphed to Sir Nicholas Hansen desiring to express his deepest sympathy with all the sufferers.

MR. PHILPS ON THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

the

Mr. Phelps, formerly United States Malster, in England, delivered a lecture in Brooklyn recently on the Monroe doctrine and the recent application of it to Venezuela and Caba. The rebellion in Cuba be treated as a rebellion of banditt, with no Government which it is

find no warrant in law for interference of any possible to discover or recognize, and he could Newckwang tele-kind by the United States in the contest..

The Monroe doctrine, In his opinian, doen not apply to the boundary dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela. No discoverable interest of the United States was, in his judg. ment, impenfiled or menaced by Great Britain, and there was therefore no warrant for the President's claim to interfero. As to the boundary line between British Gulana and Venesuela be does not believe there ever was one. An arbitrary iine must be drawn, and it is

THE Secretary of the Puzjom Mining Company, Limited, advises us that he has recelyed the following telegram from the mine, being the results of the clean-up of the cyanide plant for April :-"The cyanide plant worked 21 days,

ons, of gold, of an average assay value of £3, 31. 96. starling.”

will he despate "CASPIAN Sove Ports To The Hongkong Telegraph various causes April.

MORROW, the sath instant, at 5 PM, instead

of as previously advertised.

For Freight or Passage, suply to

:

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Hongkong, 11th May, 1896.

T789

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

"HAITAN,"

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896.

of adults, picked men in their way, and with so small a proportion of children and old men. The Chinese appear to suffer most from malarial diseases, and the European population from diseases of the kidneys, liver, Intestinal diseases, &c.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

year at Bangkok, MANGOs are said to be cheap and plentiful this

H.M.S. gunboat 'Peacock arrived here from Bangkok yesterday.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Report on the health of the Colony during the year 1895, presented by the FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW, Medical Officer of Health to the Sanitary "THE Company's Steamship

Board, of which body he is a member (and not an officer), is very full, very clear, and very instructive, and we congratulate Dr. CLARK on the very careful examina tion he has made into the vital statistics of Hongkong during the period under review, and for having laid so excellent a founda- tion for future Investigation and report. He has done well in including in his report the result of his investigations into the causes and peculiarities of the plague and draft on which he has been anticipated by up the appointment of Deputy Master Attendant, | world bare au awkward way of falling and the matter was laid in its true Hght before

Captain Rosch, will be despatched for the above Forts on WEDNESDAY, the 13th instant, at

Nooo.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers, Hangkong, th May, 1896.

1798

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. FOR SHANGHAI, JINSEN AND NAGASAKI,

THE Steamship.

"SATSUMA MARU,"

Captain F. L. Sammer, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 13th instant, at 4 F.M. Instead of as previously advertised.

This Steamer is specially fitted for Fassengers,

with Superior Accommodation.

and glean some further figures and facts We hope to return to this report again of interest from it. We shall look out with some eagerness for the Colonial Surgeon's report for 1895 for the purpose of comparing the two, but fear that Dr. ATKINSON will not afford us the opportunity, Consistently with his own theory, he will avoid all discussion on disputable matters, confine himself strictly to figures, and omit all that portion of his carefully prepared

In publicly challenging some of the Dr. CLARK. We shall see what we shall conclusions arrived at by previous writers see. We suppose the public will not hear an the subject. Arriving in 1895, he has from Dr. Lowsor this year. had the opportunity of making himself acquainted with the disease as it occurred during that year. He must have seen a great many cases of all degrees of malig nancy during the first three months of this year and, even if it had not been his duty to study the history of the epidemic of 1894, he arrived so recently after it and while it was still For Freight or Passage, apply to

so completely a common tropic of conver- NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hengkong, 1118 May, 1896.

1790 sation in all circles, medical and general, that it was impossible for him to have overlooked it and to have refrained from the methots made use of in dealing with it. We have always thought Dr. Lowson mis-, taken in his opinion that the latrines were potent factors in the spread of the plague, and it is pleasant to find Dr. CLARK on the same side as ourselves. The condem nation of the latrines was only a portion of the organised attack on the popularly constituted Sanitary Board, with a view to its condemnation as the sole cause of the Insanitary state of the city in exonera- tion of the Governor and the Government, the former having committed himself in Council to the statement that he had never heard of such a thing as a house in an insanitary condition In the Colony until

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Special tens to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSs and other Large Consumers. Any complaints should be addressed to the Manager.

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THE Shanghal Harbour Master has engaged three men to assist the Inspecting Officer in carrying out the Plague Regulations. CAPTAIN BOLDEED, RN, arrived at Singapore by the steamer Glenegle on the rat last, to take Singapore.

CAPTAIN GASSON, of the stoniner Glenogle, reports passing a water-logged jonk dangerous to navigation, off Pulau Jarra, bearing S. 20, miles distant.

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The Acting Chlef Justice to-day sent a Chinese trader to prison for three months and suspended his discharge in bank-Ter foundation stone of the new French Electric The man Light Works at Shanghai was laid on the 7th ruptcy for twelve months. was a butcher and had succeeded his instant, with appropriate ceremonies, on the alte father in business five years ago with behind the French Municipal Hall. a capital of $1,100. In 1895 he was THE Shanghai native papers report that the in debt to the extent of 92,730 over and above all his available assets, and he Foreign Ministers at Peking have written to the borrowed a further sum of 81,200 on the Tsungil Yamen suggesting the construction of a security of a contract he had entered into telephone line belween Shanghal and Soochow for the sale on profitable terms of the ONE British steamer will go to Hankow to load would probably have been suficfentity had kept on killing cattle in due course,

the Oamfa, and is expected to leave Shanghat He shut up his shop for Haukow on the rith and start homewards within a month and retired from business, from that port about Jobe ist. leaving his general creditors and this special one lamenting. It is some consola tion that some punisement, however triding, has come upon him. There are very many more in a like or in a worse case upon whom no punishment will fall. Our Bankruptcy Law is so imperfect and so imperfectly administered that creditors

Hongkong in protection.

but he did not.

have absolutely

Tar owners of the steamer Normandie bave filed a petition in the Supreme Court at Shang-

hai against the owners of the steamer Pakín la connection with the collision that occurred

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RUSSIA IN SHANTUNG. DURING a squall on thị ayth ult. that passed over Penang a huge tree (Casuarina) at Eagan diverted to other parts of the world by more While the eyes of most people have been Tomo Kechil was uprooted and blown down. It exciting occurrences, our energetic Russian fell on three attap houses and killed one nalghbours have been strenously labouring to of the inmates, who was smoking oplum at the procure seemingly small advantages at Chefoo, time. The Singapore Free Preis adds:-We which we understand are considered by the Russian naval and military authorities · 25 the notice of the dejected horde of anti-oplum of the Rasalan programme in North Chinx. The have much pleasure to bringing this. incident la biolutely essential to the successful prosecution people. It is recommended for use by platform attempt has taken the shape of endeavouring to orators as a direct evidence of divine opinion, secure to a Russian agent, though he is of another nationality, certain rights with regard to a landing which again must be distinctly pro-alcohol #stage and storage accommodation, ostensibly for we are to bellave the adage that "there is a pro- | Russian trading ships, but really for the Russian vidence that watches over drunken men and Navy. The question originally presented children." The unfortunate thing is that trees itself as a purely commercial one, but seeing how and boasts and factory chimneys all over the commercial Interest Russia has in that part of Chius other folks at last became suspicious,

down in high winds and killing people who are the people la Peking, who rubbed th. fe oyes and not smoking oplum. But logic has no right to wakened up just as everything was about cut and shove lis nose over the fenes when fiery untamed dry for algnature. The details of this curious fads are on the rampage. Therefore we expect business have been very closely guarded, and to sen this story made use of to a'tract lavenile all that we can positively affirm is that the pennies to the promotion of what we have heard Russians did not wish to secure the landing and called "anighandoly cauto.”

the other rights demanded upon a purely enm- mercial basis, but endeavored to ride the high burse on the assumption that what they asked for was part of the price which China agreed to pay for her “friendly” Intervention "against' Japan in the case of Liaotong. So far we understand nothing has been soiled and it l hoped that the arrival of the new British Minis fer, with a reputation for strength of purposa and perspicacity of political vision, upon the scene in Peking may by the means of com pleicly altering the chances of our Rasslan felends' ruccessful desigar upon Chefoo. The Japanese will probably love Shangtung (Wethatwel, that la Kozanko and Yoh rel on the mainland) about the middle of Jane, sfier xil the remaining fests bave been dismantled and the balance of the Indemnity pald, xnd it seems to us that it would be a fit and proper thing in the general Interests of Euro- pean commerce that the new British Minister, THE TRADE OF BAIGON.

who has ample ressons pigeon-holed to Peking In their Circular, dated Saigon, and May, to justify such a demand, should advise the bolding of Weihaiwel by a neutral flet in the RICE:-There is nothing to be said, more than interests of common security'sgainst the menac- to reiterate former remarks upon high prices; ing advances of Russia until such time as planters are still able to hold back their stocks, China is deemed strong enough to iske care of and while they can do so no marked decline will her own coasts and prevent the pressure of take place. Export, so far, has been equal to Russia's undus and dangerous claim for that of last season, but a change mast soon exclusive rewards for any pollifea! services she appear, as supplies of grain are falling off; has rendered Chins. For if politics) scrrican are to be so acknowledged, people of the expected to rus aust In July, Quotations are as strong_commercial instincts of the Chluara will follows! No, 1 Wälta Milled, 13.387/1, No. 3 assuredly hold that commercial services are White Miled, $278➡5/ 10 % Cargo $224-4/11||Biso worthy of recognition and should be pro- 20% Cargo $2.304/10 per cwt., sett F.O.B, perly safeguarded, China Gantie.

H.E. CHING CHANG, Chinese Minister to the French Republic, has sent for his family, who have been living to Peking, to falu bim. In conjunctioTM with Total Heal Yin-hong, whom we (the Mercury) announced some time ago as having been granted Vermission to raise capital for the construction of the Hankow-Paking Railway-wo-now.farther learn that the Military Board, Prince Kung and Paleca rhing, have likewise allowed Trotais Wa and Lin and Prefect In to favite merchants to subscribe for the anderiuatus. The mount these four gentlemen are instructed to raise is forty million ikels, each of them being required to provide ten millions. The Military Board are preparing memorial to be presented to the Throne asking for final sanction, which no doubt will be issued before long,

between the two vessels in Shanghal on Good Messrs Wm. G. Hale & Co. report as follows: Friday.

THE Portuguese Minister-Plenipotentiary and no Mdme, e Costa aurived at Baugkok on the 28th ult, by the Gorgon. Sr. a Costa is accompanied by M. Bastos, Secretary, and M. Suvano,

TELEGRAMS.Attaché. His Excellency had audience of the

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.)

RUSSIAN AGGRESSIVENESS IN

CHEFOO.

THE BRITISH MINISTER FIRM.

BOTH FLEETS IN READINESS,

3.13 p.m.

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IT Is learned from Peking that Mr. Beanclerk and Mr. Great Daff are shortly to leave for home, so that the British Legation will be left in the hands of newcomers just at a stage when the presence of the most experienced men likely to be required more than at any other timo.

Taipingshan was in course of being cleared out. The Acting Colonial Surgeon's protest at the Board meet- ing the other day against the discus- sion of doubtful questions of this kind a protest against discussion pure and simple, but against a subordinate officer who is under the Colonial Surgeon venturing to argue such questions with his superiors and seniors in the service, and against the Impropriety of allowing It to be known outside that there were differences of opinion within the sacred circle of officiallim Dr. CLARE may entertain what opinions he pleases, but it is a breach, we will not say of duty, but of official propriety, not to suppress them in | deference to the unwritten law of the naturally object, and they are supported by Tam following changes in H.B.M. Consular staff ring that every official must, so far as the British Minister, Sir Claude MacDonald, at Shanghal have been antified Mr. B. Joly, regards the public, support and defend who insists thar Mesa Vergusson and from leave, as Vice-Consul and Police Magis every other. We hope that Dr. CLARK Co.'s prior claims has made up his mind to speak and vote The Russiang talk of isking presession walgre Chefoo to relieve Mr. T, L. Baileck, Acting trate, vice Mr. L. C. Hopkins, who goes in according to his own Independent pro- fessional opinion on all-professional the British claims, and the officers of the fleet

Consul at Shanghal during the absence of Mr. matters and so earn the confidence and

G, Jamieson, on leave, respect of the community.

Dr. CLAXX estimates the annual in- crease of population in Hongkong at 3.277 per cent, or about 7,500 persons In each year, Allowing for this increase and taking the census of 1891.88 & basis, he fixes the total number of Inhabitants In the Colony in June, 1895, at 214,930, of whom 234,102 are Chinese and 10,828 of other race's and. nationalities. The civil populatier, non-Chinese, he places at 7,250, of whom

SHANGHAI, May rith. On the rat fost, thata was an explosion in the cost bunkers of the steamer Amaranik, while lying The Russian Governmentjclaims the foreshore at Tonjong Pagar Wharf, Singapore. A European of Messrs Fergusson and Co's property at Chefoe, feeman, named Lindsay, was seriously lojovod, ostensibly as a landing for a Russian steamship and had to be taken to the hospital. The ine between Shanghai, Japan, Korea and explosion was probably due to an accumulation Vladivostock,, Meams Ferguson and Co. of gas.

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2,680 are Europeans, 2,230 are Portuguese, and the other 2,350 are Indians, Japanese, negroes, and natives of the Philippines and Malayan States. Of the 2,680 Europeans, 1,800 only are British. Of the Chinese, 167,500 Ilve in the City of Victoria; the

shall be respected

now in Chelos have been making many remarks on the course they; will punika. „Thero, nrg serasi Racılan men-of-war and two British gunboats in Chefoo Harbour to-day. I will wire you further details as they come to hand.

SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD TAKES

CHARGE.

FROM Paking it is learned that all repairs to the Board of Revenue buildings are to be completed by the Chinese 8th moon (about October) and that the cost of same, amounting to over two hundred thousand taels, will be boren entirely by the officials of that Bazıd. A case similar to this occurred during the reign of Lien Fárg.

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THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN CHEFOO, *

THE Mercury reports the death of Mons. H SHANGHAI, May seth,

| Loumyer, Belglán Minister to Chins and ṣiam, 6.23 pm.

which took place at the General Hospital Sir Claude MacDonald has taken charge as Shanghai, on the 7th Instant, through bleed Minister for Great Britain. Mr. Beauclerk, who polsoning, the silica of a scratch during his has been in charge since Sir Nicholas O'Coner passage from Peking to Tientsin. Ho arrived left, will not, however, go on leave fust yet, as in Shanghai on the 3rd instant la the Xinsing. · was reposted, but will remain to assist, by his The gags of the Consulates and men-of-war intimate knowledge of affairs, the new Minister, were half-mast during on the 7th.

There were six Russfsa men-of-war in Chefoo

on the gth instant, including the fronciads

MEMORANDA. TUESDAY,—13th May.

CLARET Our Clarets, including the lowest rest of the land population are in Kow- and Dimdir Denshot, the two most

priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine loon and the villages on this island, and powerful and beavily armed hosts on the station 8.30 pm Mesting of St. John's Lodge.

THE "ONWO 2" NEWCHWANG" COLLISION.".

THE " NEWCHWANG " TO BLAME.

SHANGHAI, 12th May. 18.57.

product of the juice of the grape and are not the boat population numbers 33,180. Of arificially made from ealains and currents the 6,837 houses in Victoria only 479 were ay is generally the case with Cheap Wines, exclusively European, and the average BRANDY-All our Brandy is guaranteed to be population of each Chinese "house was pura Cognac, the difference in price being 25.3, or about goo persons to the acre. It merely a question of age and vintage. may be true that is six times the average density of the population in London, but WHISKY,-All, our Whisky is of excellent we should be inclined to think that the

The decision of the Court of Inquiry regarding | quailty and of rester age than most brands more, densely populated quarters of the sinking of the steamer Ono a WODKLE ONL in the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY marked "X" is universally popular, and is London, east and north, will show a the yoth uật, in that the "Wawchwang is held pronounced by the best local conaciones density fully as great if not greater. The entirely to blame : for the collision, "Captain to be superior to any other brand in the average birthrate for the entire population, Hards certicate has, however, been returned Hongkong michik.

native and foreign, was 15.8 per 1,000) [se him?

WEDNESDAY, 13th May.

11 am....French Mall closes, |Hoon.~~Sugħalita leaves for Europe.

| Koon.—Coptic leaves for San Francisco, vid

usual ports of call,

3.30 pm-Annual general meeting of the Member of the Hongkong General Cham. ber of Commerce it the rooms of the Chamber, City Hall. "

9 pm

*- SATURDAY,—-16th May. Meeting of Ferseverance Lodge.

Daylight-Olympia leaves for Victoria, BC --SUNDAY,—17th May, v

and Tammáý vie noual parts of call

Arrivals are 30,000 plculs daily, and the crop is

invoice weight, in runnies without Insurance.

THE "NEWCHWÀNG"-" ONWO"

DISASTER..

We gather the following additional detalls of this terrible disaster from Shanghai exchanges dated to the 5th last. :

. The asurance on the Onwo amounted to About Tis. 50,000, of which. Tir. 12,000 was

effected with the Canton Insurance Office, lt.6000 with the Yangtze, Tis. 3,000 with the South British, and a couple of thousand taels in the World office,

WE have long maintained that common-sSDEG strength and deciding on the organisation and directs that, before fixing our military and naval

distribution of our land and see forces, some fixed principle should be laid down as to the work that our navy and army are expected to perform, Of course it is impossible to forecast exactly the precise nature and amount of the task that wonid devalve on our soldiers and callors, be drawn up calculated for all reasonable but a general scheme of war polley should probabilities. As to the objection that it would not be prudent to let foreign nations know precisely what our intentions are it is mere specious than sound.. No one in his what under certain circumstances we should do, senses would dream of proclaiming to the world for cirumstances cannot be precisely foreseen, without danger or imprudence announce that we Neither is it necessary to confuse what we could with what we would do. We might, however, consider it necessary in the interests of the country to be prepared (a) to garrison our coal ing stations and Colonial garrisoner (6) to despatch reinforcements to indis; (c) to have The damage to the Nrwchwang is all abore always available a field army of about a cerials water, and is not very extensive, being confined strength with which to make our power fels into a low plates in her starboard bow, Har collision bulk-heade stood the strain perfectly. Europe ar Egypt—Broad Arrow.

She is now in Boyd's Dock repairing. He people say that as they were coming through the sharp bond the Onwo's green light was to their green. The Newcktning came through the shipping with the tide without steaming, and wai" going at ball speed when the collision occurred.

THE Hos. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nothersols Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the undermentioned donations to the funds of the Hospitals →→ Batterfield and Seite

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It was proposed to blow up the wreck at once, course, as a large quantity of the cargo, such as but the majority of underwriters objected to this silk piece goods cannot be very much damaged..

no treasure, though an offiderable quantity s There were some 35 cases of uninsured opium on board belonging to Chinese, but there was

caged to send up a considerable quantity by the Onto. At the last moment it altered its arrangements,

The Onwo is now lying in a very danger. ons place, and sometimes cares may arise when steamers will hot answer their helm, while small craft invariably drift at the mercy of the current towards the wrack,” A few days ago a junk ran right into the sterboard boom of the U.S. fingship Olymold, and but, for the strong body of men who immediately answered. the "bostswain's pipe?! the junk would have 'capsized, as her masts were dead on, the Olympia's boom, and there was a strong current prevalling

The cargo on board the Oswo was walked si about Tir 100,000, of which Tis. 50,000 was insured.

The extent of the damage done to the New-- chwang will necessitate the replacing of seven new frames and eleven plates on the starboard bow and are plates on the port aide. She has a large hola in her starboard quarter, abaft her main part, the latter damage being evidently done when the two vessels got clear of each other. The Nanchwong swinging round must. ha's struck her stern against the Onwe,

Diver Morton has succeeded in removing the wheel House and woodwork on the upper dack of the steamer On

Divas Martual and two Chiasse divers sta mading nò the 'Gawe wiends in under na try and