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FOR THE FANISHED.

While we're full of Tommy Atkins and rough-

and-tumble Jack; ·

While each breeze brings us the echo of the

ringing rifle crack:

We must mind the martial music doesn't drown

another call,

We must mind it, doesn't drive our other duties

to the wathr

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1900.

THE BOERS AND OUR ·

WOUNDED.

spite of the tiresome journey by couch previous to the opening of the railway in 1890," Bloem- fontein has attracted health-seekers for many. years past. Standing as it does 4,518 feet above sea-level, its climate is bracing, and the winter is dry and severe.

A RUSSIAN CONSUL-GENERAL IN INDIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, February 18th. In reference to Mr. Henry Norman's letter

AGENDA

-TOMORROW.

(About) S. T. Co's steamer Lovttakken leaves for New York vin Suez Canal.

for London &c.

(About) P. & O. 5. Co's steamer Java leaves C. N. steamer Sungtiang leaves for Manila, Noon-O. & O. S. Co's steamer Coptic leaves

for Honolulu &c.

We are full of warlike ardour, brought to being Arundel. He was leading his pony up a hill Modder River, at an estimated cost of £80,000. | Consulate at Tashkent, it may be as well to 3 p.m.-Meeting of the Legislative Council and

by the war,

been before.

And the fighting-nian's an idol that he's never And everywhere the Soldier Song's the lay

that's being sung, And his glorious deeds of valour are the theme

of every longue.

So when they needed money, we answered

with a will, And the money flowell in freely and flows in

freely still

We're lemled all the "little things" that mourn

their absent Dads, "Tis a glamourous and glorious thing to help

our Soldier Lads.

But now there comes a different cry, not

glorious and grand,' A miserable wailing from a Famine-stricken

Land.

No fanfare of the trumpets, no glorious battle

tale--

Just the wail of, men and women who cry:

"We fail, we fail"

Oh the names of Jack and Atkins ate for ever

on our lip, And the stirring warlike spirit has got us in its

grip;

But we mustn't give occasion for the future to

declare,

That the cry of starving creatures was drowned

by trumpet blare.

Joss CHINCHINJoss, in S. F Press.

THE TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE,

THE ROUTE AND ITS COST.

A great amount of interest is taken in Japan in the proposed Trans-Pacific Cable. The following article from the New York Sun gives some interesting particulars as to the course

the cable will have to follow :--

"One of the important results of our recent entrance into the domain of the Pacific is the assurance of a speedy laying of a Trans-Pacific cable. This has been declared feasible by the recent reports received at the Navy Department from the Were, the survey ship that is now engaged in completing the sounding over the proposed route. The mere announcement of the fact was made recently in the report of Rear Admiral Bræfford, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment; but there are a good many inter- esting facts outside the main conclusion that have not yet been announced.

"The proposed cable route is from San Franciscu to Honolulu, the survey for which was made some years ago. The Nero's recent voyage, however, napped the remaining dis. tance from Honolulu to Luzon, by way of Guain and the Midway islands. In addition a survey was also made from Luzea to Yokohama, which will increase the length of the line by 1,342 miles and add in the cost over $1,500,000. The Nera in the course of her voyage made two interesting discovefics. One was the ex- istence of an unusually large submarine moun- tain on the door Pacific, just west of the Midway islands, and the other of a submarine abyss 500 miles east of Guam that promises to be deeper than any other ever discovered.

The mountain in question is over 13200 feet high, almost as high as Mount St. Elias, and comes to withta. 82 fathoms of the surface. The abyss is-recorded as 4,900 fathoms deep. at which point the sounding had to be discon. tinued without bottom. Even this makes a hole something over five statute miles deep, or one in which Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, could be placed and still have room to pile several Washington monuments, one over the other, on top without interfering with navigation.

"It is something of a coincidence that the Nero which made this discovery, was in charge of Commander Belknap, while Rear- Admiral Belknap, now retired, was in com. mand of the old Tuscarons, when, in 1874, she located the Tuscarora Deep, a great ocean chasm of 4,475 fathoms, off the coast of Japan, which for many years held the world's record in deep-sea sounding. It is quite possible that Commander Belknap would have broken not only the record of his distinguished relative, but that of Her Majesty's ship Penguin as well, had it not been that the Nero's sounding ap- paratus was too small to hold the requisite amount of wire. The Penguin, in 1895, found what up to the presentholds the unquestioned record for deep-sea holes, when he located one spot of 5,147 fathoms and another of 5155 fathoms not far northeast of the Kermadeck islands. It is an interesting fact that all these deep-sea discoveries were made possible by the ingenuity of Captain Charles Sigsbee of the Maine, whose deep-sea sounding apparatus has won him recognition from some of the scientifically inclined crowned heads of Europe, as well as from this Government.

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The Langel publishes, some further tutorest ing notes from Sir William MacCormac, who is out with General Buller in Natal. He describes how Corporal Thomas, of the Worcester Regiment (Mounted Infantry), was wounded at Arundel on November 21, 1899, whilst with a party reconnaiting the hills at

when a Boer about 400 yards distant fired at him and hit him four times. All the bullets came from die same rifle; he saw the Bner standing up to fire at him. The first two bullets wounded him in the hands. The third buller entered at the inferior angle of the left scapula, passing directly from behind forwards. He had turned round after being struck a second time. The track of the bullet must have been in immediate proximity the heart, the pericardium, and the large blood-vessels The fourth bullet entered on the left side if the tenth intercostal space, 4in. from the middle line, passing through the lower part of the chest and the upper part of the abomen. There were no symptoms of internal injury to either the chest or the abdomen. The patient had a slight rise of temperature for three days. Sir William Saw him sitting up in the train a few days afterwards regretting his transfer down country, his chief trouble being stiffness of his right little finger joint.

Bloemfontein supports no fewer than four newspapers, of which the chief is the Friend of the Free State. There are several hotels and boarding houses, hut living is dear, despite the simplicity of the inhabitants, and domestic labour is very hard indeed to obtain,

Bloemfontein's water supply is at present in The Times of Friday last on the appoint. derived from the fountain, with a large inservement of a Russian Consul General for India, supply in dans, and in 1898 ■ scheme was

and the old question of claiming reciprocity suggested for supplying the town from the from Russia by the establishment of a British

point out the official criticism of this view of the case. The British Government long ago accepted and recognized Consuls in India from other foreign Powers, and, therefore, owing to the favoured-nation clause of the Commercial Treaties, which stipulates for equal treatment, it was not found possible to refuse the same advantage to Russia. On the other hand, Russia had never yet admitted Consuls in Central Asia from any of the foreign Powers, and, consequently, cannot make an exception in favour of England, although no other Euro

The district of which Bloemfontein is the centre is the most important in the Orange Free State, and includes locafontein and the villages of Reddersburg, Branfort, Bethany, and Dewetsdorp. Bloemfontein itself is go | miles from Kimberley, 105 miles from Coles. berg, 400 miles from Durham, and 440 miles from Port Elizabeth-P. M. Gazette.

WHITE FLAG AT WATERLOO,

In "Anecdotes" of the battle of Waterloo cccurs the following "A commanding officer of the Cuirassiers lowered his sword to General Halker, Several officers cried out: "They

!#1-

surrender"! "Be firm and fire," was the in- stantaneous reply of the general who mediately saw the trick. The valley sent the colonel and his cuirassiers, as usual, to the right about, with a laugh of dérision from the men he had meant first to deceive and then to cut to pieces," The hoers' use of the white flag is therefore not without a precedent, but it is pity our officers do not act in such cases as General Halket did.

THE - WATERLOO CUP.

NO MORE BETTING ALLOWED,

pean State has any interest whatever in con. nexion with that part of the Tsar's dominions.

Finance Committee.

PRIDAY, 6tli Pm-A. L. S.. X. Co's steamer Graus Igaves

for Fine and Trieste &c. (dirct.) 3 p.m.-D. S. S. Co's steamer Lightning leaves

for Straits.

for Victoria B. C. &c.

4 p.m.-N., Y. K. Steamer Tosa Mara inavas. 4 pn-Cargo ex. Bengal subject to rent. 4.30 p.m.-Mr. Sid Black's trick Cycle riding

Company at Happy Valley. C. N. Co's steamer Whampoa leaves Singapore,

Samarang and Sourabaya.,

SATURDAY, 7th.

(About) D. & Co's steamer Pathan leaves for

New York via Suez Canal. 3.30 pn-Public Auction sale of Household Furniture at "Dunottar" the Peak Residence of Mr. Newman Munford by Mr. Paul Brewitt. p.m.-Mr. Sid Black's trick Cycle riding

Company Happy Valley. Cargo ex argyll subject to rent.

4.30

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

K is again the two diametrically opposed systems of the open and closed doors. As it is not the custom to ask-foreign. Governments to receive Consuls as mere occupants of posts of observation, or as secret agents, however much these duties may be confidentially required of thens, it is presumably on the ground of Russian trade with India, which is stated to be on the increase, especially in kerosine, that Russia claims to have a presentative at Bombay. A3 Mr. Norman explains, Russia is doing her best to Crush out British trade in Central Asia, and, therefore, we may suppose that she would not like to see it revived, if that were possible, by the help of a British Consul. As to the absence of any Consular officer in any part of the Caucasus east of Batum, there would now be no objection to the re-esta blishment of the Consulate at Tiflis, or to the creation of one at Baku. This, after the establishment of a Russian Consul-General at Bombay, is evidently, a matter that rests entirely with the British Government. The last British Consul at Tiflis was Captain Lyall,

Government had declined to confirm the no- mination of the late Mr. Thomas Mitchell, and who was obliged to resign after a few years' service there on account of a purely personal matter which displeased the local authorities. Some years after that the late Mr. Peacock, Consul at Batum, was allowed to be accredited to the Central Administration of the Caucasus, and to pay periodical official visits to Tiflis, but the post of Resident Consul there has re- mained vacant ever since the departure of

The N. G. L. steamer Humberg, from Ham Captain Lynil. Up to the present Russia hasburg, left Singapore for this port to-day, and been virtually served in India by the French may be ved here on or about the gili inst. Consul, and it is now thought better to have an openly accredited Rusaian official in direct relations with the Anglo-Indian Administration.

Major Hathaway, R.A.M.C., on discovering Thomas's absence, returned to the hill and cold Assistant-Commandant Grobelaar that he had come for a rounded man, and asked whether he might take him away. The answer was, "Certainly, but there is another man wounded over there and another in another direction," pointing to the hills. Major Hathaway thank ed Assistant-Commandani Grobelaar for his kindness to Corporal Thomas in having him removed from the hillside to the station, but asked, if there were more wounded, why they were not brought down too, well knowing that there were no more, as the roll had been called at Tweeddale. He said that he should take, Corpond Thomas to the train, wait for half an hour whilst he dressed his wounds, and then if the banquet and its attendant ceretuany of who was appointed to the post after the Russian more wounded did not arrive should conclude that there were none. Needless to say that no more came, but the anxiety of the Boers to exaggerate our losses and minimize their own was very usual. The Boer who hit Corporal Thomas carried him down the hill to the station in his own blanket, and said that he would give anything not to have shot him, herause he thought he was going to die.

Owing to police intervention on the ground of the illegality of betting on licensed premises, calling over the card" at the Adelphi Hotel Liverpool, which hitherto have preceded the Waterloo coursing carnival, this year had to be foregone. It is a practice of forty years standing, and the head constalde, in acquis inting the hotel manager with the Watch Committee's instructions, informed him that he, maigist try to justify it before the licensing justices on the ground of its antiqnity. But the Atidland Railway Company, who own the intel, appear to have decided that in this case the axiom about custom being stronger than law would not hold gool. At all events, they resolved not to run any risk of endangering their license. Sill there are more places than The Adelphi Hotel, and probably those people wanting to bet found the means to do so during the evening. In fact, the card was "called over at a Southport house,

Sume interesting details of the Boer medical arrangements were gathered by Major North, R.A.M.C., who is tu command of the bearer company stationed at Möder's Farm, on our left flank. On that occasion about 30 of the Suffolks were killed, and the major and his men were compelled to bury them. When the flag of truce enabled the wounded and dead of both sides to be taken charge of, the Boers would not allow any of the soldiers to visit the the spot, but sad that they themselves would assist Major North and his men of the Royal Anny Medical Corps to bury our dead, which

TWO KITCHENER STORIES. they did. Major North saw seven, ambulance wagons among the small Boer force, and Telegraph Company wiites: What Lord The Cape Town correspndent ofthe Archange inside these were placed maturesses in a

Kitchener is doing may be best summed up in very comfortable way, The Boers would

two stories that are going the round in regard not allow him to look into all of the wagons to him. It is said that fre was asked the other but they asked him if he thought cur wagons. were better. He replied that they were. He day whether he did not propose to reorganize also learned that the enemy have two very the transport. His reply was: "No, an good hospitals in the town of Colesberg-the going to organize it. The other story is that railway station and the Reformed Church-re paid a surprise visit to the principal hotel and he could see the large Geneva cross flags in the city, the resort of all these among the Blying from the roofs of these buildings. Ile officers who can, while in Cape Town, afford found that one of the two surgeons he met on

The luxury of life at the Mount Nelson. He the field among the Boers was a graduate of called for the visitors' book, and carefully ran Edinburgh University, practising in time of his finger down the list of military guests. peace in the Orange Free State. The surgeon subsequently inquired of each officer his reason for being at the Mount Nelson kotel and not said that he preferred doctoring the enemy to

at the front. In most cases, of course, there losing his practice and house. Major North read the Burial Service over the graves, and

were excellent reasons for the presence of those this was followed by prayer and hymn-singing gentlemen in Cape Town. In some cases. by the Boers, after which all parted amicably.

however, the reasons were not so good, were not in fact satisfactory, and in one or two cases the leave was immediately cancelled, and the laggard soldiers sent to their regiments.

·A JAVA JOKE.

On a Netherlands India postcard addressed to "the Editor of the Straits Times, Singa pore," come the following communication:-

Please note that it is certainly that all the Englishmen loss this war; were killed and that England is on the paint to fail. Make haste to ask to Dutchland for help your land.

Your friends.

BLOEMFONTEIN.

[DY ONE WHO KNOWS IT.]

It seems now opportune to give a short description of Bloemfontein with the geography of which our troops will shortly be familiar.

Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State, is situated on the great trunk line of rail from Cape Town to Pretoria, and is 750 miles distant from the former.

The fountain of flowers" (Bloemfontein) is a quiet, English-looking town, bosomed in green trees, and nestling under the shadow of a small racky eminence, surrounded by low bills, rising to an elevation of only 250 feet. It is a veritable oasis of green in a wilderness of wide sweeping plains, stretching away west- ward to the far-off plains of Southern Hechua naland and the dreary Kalahari Desert,

Bloemfontein is really the only town of any importance in the Free State, though its population numbers but 8,000, of whom 4,000 Are whites. It has an air of Arcadian simpli- city, due to the primitive habits of the sur- rounding farming element, and though a pro. sperdus centre, has never developed any of the features of modem civilization.

PITY THE POOR PARISIAN VOLUNTEERS!

He

A direular is being distributed in Paris appealing for subscriptions on behalf of a corps

of French volunteers intended for the Trans- vaal. The appeal, which begins with the words Right against might!" refers to "the war, equally unjust and cowardly, declared by Eng land against a brave little people.

, who are defending their independence and fighting against the nation which has been our enemy for centuries." The corps is said to be com posed of veteran non-commissioned officers of the French army, animated by sentiments of the puresi patriotishi," and "The batred which they fee for a people who at all times have fought us by all means, in all circumstances, on all points of the globe. The circular continutes

The

work which we have undertaken and to which we have brought all our devotion as organizers, all our sincerity as Frenchmen, and all our energy as soldiers, would remain barren if our countrymen did not offer us by their subscrip- tion the means of sending to the Transvaal the fit corps which we have formed." The public are assured that the corps will demean itself bravely," and that, "free in its action, engag ing only its own responsibility,” it "will" re-. ceive no orders excepi from its chief and will shrink from nobody." Accompanying the cir cular is a first list of ago subscriptions, amount- ing to 1,185 francs!

THE BENGALI STUDENT.

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England has been unfortunate of late in her "selection of Consular officers for other posts in Russia, or else the Russian Government has become more fastidious than usual in this rex- pect. Besides the unpleasant incident of the British Consuls in Finland, it was only the other day that the Russian Foreign Office attache at refused An exequartur to a former British Teheran as Consul-General at Odessa on account of anti-Russian sentiments alleged to have been uttered in Persia.

According to the Press, a Russian Consul General has also just been appointed to Can- ada, although there is no sign of any Russian trade with, tha: British colony-Times.

SHIPPING REPORTS.

Captain F. Schulz, of the steamship Long titoon, from Shanghai, reports:-Misty, squally weather, rain, strong to fresh N.N.E. and N.E. winds from port to port.

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Captain Jones, of the steamship Zchang, from Wulu and Chinkiang, reports:-Light southerly winds and thick fog to Tung Yung Island, thence to port light to strong N.E. winds and heavy continual rain.

Captain J. E. Williams, of the steamship Chingly, from Kobe, via Muji, reports Strong SE. winds with rough sen and low barometer to Ilieshan's, thence northerly wind, dull and rainy weather to port.

NOTANDA:

CALENDAR.

APRIL.

Meteorological means based on ten years'

observations to 1893. Barometer........ Thermometer Humidity Rainfall

TO-DAY.

WEATHER KEPORT.

Barometer..... Temperature Humidity. Rainfail,

+39.059

62.0

.85.0

4.08

On dite al On date at

1u A.M.

43.

29.93 29.81

65

87 0.30

93

TO-DAY.

Wednesday, 4th April, 1900, Chinese-5th of 3rd moon of 201à 'year of

Kovang-sk. Sun-Rises............

•Set.

Shr. Samin.

bhr. 15min.

okr. 35min.

thr. 34min

bhr. 56min. 7hr. 3min.

"A route once selected, as the present Pacific route has been, the art of laying the cable con- sists in getting it as nearly as possible laid flat all along its course. It is desirable not to get it at a lower depth than 3,300 fathoms, because it has been found that a broken cable.cannot be grappled and recovered at a greater depth than this. Then the character of the ocean bed is a consideration, it being advisable square formation, with the market place in the to keep as much as possible out of the track centre, and on a hill to the southi is Blocm of volcanic disturbances, and to follow the fontein's only tort, strangely enough built by great heds of ocean mud where practicable; us in days gone by; in 1897 its arma as the presence of this doze is an indicationment, was restricted to a couple of Maxim averago England-returned student is net Alat 1800-The Rev. T. A. Large murdered, at

of a lack of strong currents, and the core also protects alte cable from injurious che mical action, where there are certain mineral outcroppings, as well as some of its submarine enemies, the teredo navalis orship worm, which has a partiality for hemp-coated cables, and the. limnoria, which finds its submarine amusement. in eating holes in the gutta percha coating of the cable where it can get at it. A great many combinations of metal, cloth and insecticide wrapping have been tried, and use of linen cloth, phosphor-bronze ribbon. Sterin and gutta percha is how generally recognised as about

the best.

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Besides the submarine problems already alluded to in laying a long ocean, cable, ane has to calculate the number of landing places available and how frequently they should be used. The route of the proposed Pacific cable by stages is as follows:

The town is laid out in the usual Dutch

guns. The public buildings are very hand- some, and mostly built of while freestone, plentiful in the neighbourhood, and red brick. The finest of these is the Kaadzaal, or Houses of Parliament, erected during the last few years, It boasts a domed tower, Doric columns, and cost £60,000. It is most tastefully furnished and hears, comparison with any similar building in our own colonies. The old-Raadzaal is now occupied by the various Government depart ments, and is a well-built edifice of two stories.

Dr. Starat Mullick, a Bengali gentleman, now in England, and a house physician at one of the London Hospitals, has been addressing the Londra Indian Society on the life led by Indians in England. His description of the

tering Endowed with a smattering of general knowledge, proverbially pitiable, pos sessed of a morbid measure of his social status, inflated with a superlative sense of self-tisfaction, burn of missdirected educa- tion, he returns to

incu.

India an

bus to his family and a danger to the country He puts on the haughty, disdainful air. Frock coat, top hat, and patent leather boots, nut forgetting the masher collars, are the only cnterion of a gentleman which he accepts. The The religious element is strong in Bloemfon cut of a man's coat is more to him than the in. There are several Dutch Reformed, turn of his mind. The stay-at-home people he Churches, the principal of which has two spires, despises and treats with unveiled contempt, while the Protestant Episcopalians and the Ro man Catholics each posess a cathedral. The England-returned know that, compared with even the old foul of a father. Little does the Wesleyans, too, are in great force, as is the case some, he is a most contemptible being, whether throughout our possessions in South Africa. as an intellectual or a cultured man, in the true

sense of the word.”

The Orange Free Staté capitals a great ed ucational centre, and has a fine college present- ed by Sir George Grey, and known as the Grey San Francisco, to Honolulu, 2,100 miles; College. The town-hall and post and telegraph Honolulu to the Midway islands, 7,160 miles offices are pleasing and substantial buildings, Midway islands to Guam, 2,280 miles; and beyond the old Raadzaai on a gentle slope Guam to Luzon, 1,372 miles; a total ofis the fashionable residential quarter, will pretty 6,912 miles. To this is to be added jo villas peeping out amid foliage. Unlike the per cent for slack in laying the cable flat on. Residency at Pretoria, President Steyn's house the ocean floor. Then at $1,000 per mile, is a very imposing structure of white stone, which is the standard calculation for cable which cost £16,000. laying, the cost of the line will be $7,603.000 The additional cost of the line from, Manila to Yokohama, Japan, would be just $1,684,00, or a-grand total of $9,287,000 for the rough line..

The English element in Bloemfontein is very considerable many of the residents being at tracted by its reputation as a health resort for those suffering from pulmonary complaints. In

A LARGISH METEOR.

An Australian paper, relates that the ship Brilliant, which arrived at Melbourne on the 12th of February from London, bad a sensational experience on the voyage. During a heavy electrical storm, a huge meteor fell into the sea bot more than zo feet from tlie lee rail, and immediately after there arose a pillar of steam, fully 30 feet high, of a bluish tint. The stream of sparks which followed the meteor in its descent is said to have been half-a-mile long,

High water-dforning .................

Afternoen Low water-Morning

Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES. 1774--Oliver Goldsmith died. 1857--Tang-chi, late Emperor of China, born. 1885-Protocol of peace between France and

China sigued at Paris.

Tokio, by Japanese burglars, 1891-Arrival of the Czarewitch and Prince 1105-Treaty between Germany and Japan

George of Greece in Hongkong,

signed at Berlin. 898-Stoppage of South Wales Coal industry 1197-Klondyke gold discoveries reported.

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100,000 mem idle.

1899-R. W. Fusiliers (200) ordered to Kow- loon Hinterland retum the same day.

TO-MORROW,

Thursday, 5th April, 1900. Chinese-oth of 3rd moon of 26th year of

Kwang-sit Sun-Rises

Sels

..shr. 51min. Chr. 15min. High waler-Morning shr. 14min. Afternoon ...... 2hr. 27min. Low water-Morning ........ 7hr. 44min. Afternoon..... phr. qimin. ANNIVERSARIES.

1843-Hongkong declared a Crown Colony by

Royal Charter. 1847-The Bogue Forts destroyed by General

d'Aguilar. 1868-Coolie mutiny on board the ship Theresa. 1897-Wheelbarrow Riots at Shanghai. 1898-Great Britain formally takes over Men- gabong and Mengatel in Homeo. Wei-hai-wet leased to England

MAILS DUE. American (Ainerica Maru) to-morrow. German (Prinz Heinrich) 6th inst. Tacoma (Sikk) 5th inst. - Indian (Kumsang) 5th inst. French (Ernest Simons) gth inst. American (City of Peking) 14th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th inst. American (Garlic) 20th inst. American (Hongkong Maru) zith | prox.

The O. 5. S. Co.'s steamer Alcinous left Singa pore this morning, and is dus bere on the 9th inst.

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The N. Y. K's steamer Kinshiu „Maru (American Line) left Kobe via Moji for this port on the 3rd last, and is expected to arrive here on the gth.

The T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Staru, with mails, &c., left San Francisco for this port, wa Honolulu, Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Naga saki and Shanghai, on the 31st ulto.

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The P. M. S. S. Co's steamer China, with inails; &c., which left hence March 3rd for San Francisco, via Stanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Inland Sen, Yokohama and llonolulu, arrived

at her destination on the 31st ulto.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 15th ulto, via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama,

April 4, Taiwan Maru, Japanese str., for MojL' April 4 Lady Joicey, British str., for Hongay. April 4, Glaucus, British str., for Singapore.

143. April 4 Kinging, British str., for Canton. April 4, Whampo4, British str., for Canton April 4, Evie Ray, American bark, for April 4, Empress of China, British sin, för April 4, Petrínan, British str., for Shanghai.

Vancouver.

Honkoe Bay,

Passongora-Arrived.

Per Tai Lee, from Saigon--83 Chinese. Per Clara, from Hollow-200 Chinese.< Per König Albert, from Yokohama-5 Chi-. nese and Japanese.

Per Loongmoon, from Shanghai-Misa Her... mann, Revs. Doering, Buethke, Clausen, Messrs. C. G. Tuillen, and Tuilles, and 75 Chi- Departed.

nase.

Per Konig Albert, from Japan for Penang- Mr. and Mrs. Albertson and child, Mrs. Robert C. Wekasugi. For Genoa-Messrs. R. y. sou, Mrs. Ojesang, Mrs. M. Foshe, and Mrs., Schonberg, Donkowiez, W. Sutter, E. R. Daniel, A. Walford, Misses H. Hill, A. M. Perry, C. Weipert, Mr. and Mrs. F. Grosser and child, Bts. Dormer and family, Dr. Ikeda, Dr. Kumayai, Messrs. K. Isurula, H. Debatty, H. Kemmenshing, Dr, Oga, and Dr. Geotuku For London-Misses E. Craig. Bread, R. Gelbert, Mr. and Misses Russell, Miss Nevalle, Mr. and Mrs. R. Sachse, and Master W. Master Nevelle, and Mr. Fuller. For Humburg

Sachse, For Colombo-Mr. Arratoon. For Fort Said Mr. Blaseff, and M. Nokrasch, From Shanghai for Singapore-Mr. Subbatich and family, Messrs. J. A. Kebbe and Stein, For Colombo-Mr. Peart. For Naples Mr. Hauptin. Falkenhayn. For 'Genoa Dr. W. Frick, Messrs. J. Wolder, L. Busseld, F. Leutz, Rev. J. Ross and family, Rev. W., Hunter and family, Mrs. R. C., Tornaghi, and Miss Akiridge. For London-Mr. W. Carison - and family, Mrs. G. Dallas and child, Mr. and Mrs. F. May, Miss May, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gillespie and child, Mrs. P. Smith, Mrs," Gebsen, Miss Hoff For Hamburg-Messrs. O. Meuser and family, and Mr. W. Limer. From Hongkong for Singapore-Messrs. G. O. Scott, F. W. Newson, Harlow, Mr. and Mrs. Au E. Flaukuchen, Mr. and Mrs. Heaney and child, Dr. and Mrs. Cantlie, Messrs. A. Israll and S. Aboaf. For Colombo-Messia. M, F. Fischer, C. H. Poincelit and Minim For, Genoa-Messrs. A. W. Schellbas G. A Preetzner, M. Kutschera, B. Goldammer, G Brusse, J. Jebsen, P. Nagel, A. Rosmusson and family. Dr. and Mrs. Korn and child, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Horsey, Dr. C. Buls, Mr. and Mrs. T. Reid, Master Reid, Mrs. A. Ritchie, Mrs. G. L. Duncan, Misses M. Johnston and Arm strong, and Mr. F. Engel. For Antwerp —Mr. and Mrs. B. Heemskerk and child,'. and Mr. II. Seepen. For Bremen- Messrs. M. Bornurver.. For Hansburg-Mr.. and Messrs. J. H. Brosh, Messrs. M. Niejahr, C. Halst, R. Mansen, H. Rattesce, H. Petersen For Southampton--Messrs. J. Ahern, G. Byles, Richardson. For London-Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jones and child, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Graham, Mrs. Lawless, Messrs. J. A. Cupp and I MacGregor, Mr. Hadley and child, Messrs. M. MacDonald, Harton, Mrs. Barlow and child, Mr. T. T. Toyan, Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Sutherland and children, Master E. Shaw, Messrs. G. A. Lang,

F.

Robertson and H. Bremmer.

STEAMERS EXPECTED.

Names.

and will leave for this port to-morrow morning via Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai. | America Maru

Urano Kumsang.... Sikh

From.

Due,

Shanghai... To-morrow

Shanghai..

To-morrow

Singapore

Tomorrow

Japan

Tomorrow

Prinz Heinrich

Singapore

¡April 6th.

Singapore

..April 6th

Singapore

April 6th

21

Singapore

April 6th

11

1

Breconshire..

, Cosmopolitan

Aberdeen

Japan.....

April 7th

1

Ernest Simons City of Peking

Singapore ......[April 9th

Japan

April 14th

HONGKONG AND WHAMIDA DOCK RETURNS. Isla de Cuba......... Kowloon Dock. Tetartor

H.M.S. Sandpiper... Taiyuan

D. Juan d'Austria Hong Leong.

+

PASSED THE CANAL

Konigsberg

Tientsin Sucrvía

Empress of India.. Vancouver ...... April 16th Gaelic ............... 'San Francisco... April zoth

We world direct the attention of shipping firms to tho style in which Stearrers Expected" aud Projected Sallinga!

Outward-20th March-Annam, Fantabus, Shangtung, Trieste,--Benlarig, Oceaniene now pal·lished in these columns, and in so doing respecte Alexander, Taurus. 18th Mar,-Indus, Stentor. Homeward March-Oldenburg, 27th March →Wakasa Mart.

Shipping.

Arrivals.

Jully urge the managers of shipping firms to give orders ie their clerks to furnish this aften, on the forms already sup plied gratis with the latest wailable information every day.

PROJECTED SAILINGS.

Ship.

Destination. Datt.

Andalusia...... America Marn... San Francisco, &c. April 14th

KÖNIG ALBERT, German steamer, 19,642, 0. Cüppers, 3rd April, Yokohama and Shanghai 1st April, Mails and General Anping Maru...Swatow, &c.

Bamberg

Havre, &c. ......... May 20th Straits, &c. Bayern HERMES, Norwegian steamer, 849, J. C. Jensen, Belgian King ... San Diego, &c.

Bremar Portland,

Melchers & Col

3rd April-Canton 3rd April, General Jardine, Matheson & Co. LOVSTAKEN, Norwegian steamer, 2002, H. Reinertsen, 3rd April,-Tientsin 27th Man, Wool-Shewan, Tomes & Co. ICHANG, British steamer, 1,240, Jones, 4th April,Wuhu and Chinkiang 30th March,

Rice-Butterfield & Swire. GLAKA, German steamer, 675, A. Hansen, 4th

April,-loihow and April, General Jebsen & Co.

Havre, &c. .........May 30th April 12th

July 15th.

June 5th

June 9th

Carlisle City......San Diego, &c. April 30th China

San Francisco, &c May 15th Chingtu. Sydney, &c. April 10th Chusan

Shanghai City of Peking... San Francisco, &c. April 21st April 13th City of Rio San Francisco, &c jane 9th Coptic Doric........

.......San Francisco, &c April sth

San Francisco, & May. 23rd Eastern Sydney, &c........May, 3rd Emp. China Wancouver, &c...... june 6th Emp, India

April 25th May 16th

Emp japan

TAI LEE, German strainer, 828, T. Calender, 4th April-Saigon 31st Mar, Ceneral- -Mayer & Co.

Energia LOONGMOON, German slenmer, 1,245, F. Gaelic

Schulz, 4th April,-Shanghai 1st April, Glenogle

Hamburg Hector

General Siemssen & Co. ENERGIA, British steamer, 2,064, I. A. Chaplin, 3rd April,Moji 29th March, Coal- Dodwell & Co., Ld. CHINGTU, British steamer, 1,459, J. Williams, 4th April-Kobe via Moji 28th March, General Butterfield & Swire. GHEANG CHEW, British steamer, 1,213, Fred. Webh, th April, Penang and Singapore 27th Mar., General---Heung Sing Steam- TAMSUI MANU, Japanese steainer, 1,007, K.

ship Co. Sobajinia, 4th April,-Tamsui 1st April and Swatow 3rd, General-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.

STANFIELD, British bark, 560, H. Wilson, 4th April, Rajang Bth March, Timber- Order.

Clearances at the Harbour Office. Hermer, Norwegian str., for Hongay. Samskut, British steam launch, for Wuchow Petriano, British str., for Shanghai. Laongmoon, German str., for Canton. Empress of China, British str., for Shanghai- Thales, British str., for Swatow. Victoria, Swedish str., for Chefoo, Saikong, British str., for Samsul. Kongnam, British str., for Canton. P. C. C. Klaa, British str., for Hoihow. Argyll, British str., for Shanghai: Kwai Lem, British steam launch, for Macao. Chunsang, British str., for Swatow,

Departures.

April 4, Konig Alberi, German str, for Europe, April 4, Chanshan, British str., for Singapore. April 4, P. C. C. Klao, British str., for Haihow. April 4, Formosa, British str., for Swatow.

San Diego, &c. April 12th Sau Francisco, &c. May 1st Victoria, B.C....... April 24th. Straits, &c. May goth ¿Liverpool ..... April 15th Heidelberg ...Havre, &c. April 10th Hongkong MaruSan Francisco, &c. May 8th japan.... ...Shanghai, &c. April 9th

London.. java

April 5th Kawachi Maru... Marseilles, &c..... April 13th Kinshiu Maru... Victoria, B.C....... April 21st Königsberg Havre, &c. ....

May 12th Lightning „Singapore, &c. ¡April 6th Lovstakken...... New York.. .... April 5th

London, Machaon

May ist Massilia...........Marseilles, &c...... April 14th Monmouthshire.. Portland, &c. ...May 19th Nanchang.. ..Tientsin Nippon Maru...San Francisco, &c. May 31st ...April fotb

Oldenburg ..Straits, &c. Pathan

New York Preussen. Straits, &c. Prinz Heinrich... Straits, &c. Prometheus.....London....

June 281

April 7th:

May 16th

April 6th

April 17th

Japan

Queen Adelaide. Victoria, B.C......May sih Robilla

April 14th.

Sachsen Shanghai

Strails, &c.

June 14th

Singapore, &c..

April 9th.

Shanghai

April 5th

Havre, &c.

April 24th

.....Victoria, B.C.

April 14th

San Diego, &c.

May roth

Straits, &c.

July 26th.

Manila

April 5th

Shanshi.... Sibiria Sikh

Strathgyle

Stuttgart

Sungklang

Tamsui Maru ...Swatow, &c. April 8th Thyra....... San Diego, &c. ... July 8th Thales Swatow, &C... April 5th Tosa Maru......Victoria, B.C... April 6th Urano Straits, &c Straits, &c. Amoy &

Weimar... Whampoa

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