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THE FLOUR TRADE.

Advices from Hongkong of date '7th ́ult., to Portland, Or, state that the stock of flour then on hand here amounted to 50,000 tons, and that dealers would lose more than $100,000 on the. stock awing to ilie reduction of $2 per ton in freight rates by the steamship lines on the Pacific. The steamer Indravetli sailed for Hongkong with 5,000 tons of flour and it is estimated that the importers would lose at least $10,000 on the cargo,

AMERICAN COTTON MANO-

FACTURERS

THE HONGKONG, TEFEGBARES, GAFUKEA

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Italian squadrón diy the Far East is to be increased by (wo skips.

A FATAL case of cholera was notified as having occurred in the Colony during the week ended 11th inst.

THREE men have been arrested at Osaka in connection with the H ngkong and Shanghai Bank note forgeries.

THE neces ity for stricter regulations for motorists is becoming pressing in Shanghai as at home, says the China Gaalle.

THE composite brigades comprising infantry, cavalry, and tillery are being transferred to the Far East from Wastem Russia,

THE Asahi's Tientsin correspondent wires: a Custom House similar to that existing at Kinochow will be established at Weihaiwei.

WHILE bathing in the harbour on Sunday, a The body was native lad was drowned. recovered alongside the Canton-Macao wharf.

THE Norwegian steamer Ama is reported bad- by ashore at out five miles below Kiu-kiang She is said to have only Chinese pilots on board.

THE Manila Times says that the old Spanish gunboat Velaca is to be docked and repaired at Hongkong and then placed in the coastwise service.

A COOLIE at the Tai Koo ugar Refinery was killed yesterday morning by falling from the fourth storey of the building.

MR. John Goddard, who came out from Eng land to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Hongkong, in 1842, and was transferred to Yokohama some 35 years ago, died at the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the oth in his Soth year,

THE contract for the Kuala Lumpur electric light installation has been let by the Crown Agents to a Swiss firm, and a French gentler man representing this firm, (a distinguished électrical engineer) has already arrived; says the Malay Mail,

THE drums used by the Scots Guards in South Africa have just heen sold, and in some cases they, fetched between $300 and $350 a piece which is nearly eight times as much as they originally cost. The proceeds of these sale

go to the band fund.

THE new Chinese Minister to Japan, the Kwanginng Expectant Tastai, Yang Che, has been promoted to the rank of an expectant Metropolitan officer of the 4th grade, and is expected to proceed to Japan to relieve Ts'ai Chua early in September next.

THE Siamese Hospital Department have ordered a supply of prophylactle serum from Europe, and hope that with the concerted help of the military and the police it may be possible to conquer plague there-should the occasion arise.

Fox depositing rubbish in a public channel at Kowloon,a,native was fined $4. We trust that a similat step will be taken by the authorities. on this side of the harbour, and that among the first offenders will appear the names of persons residing on some of the upper levels, where a systematic dumping of rubbish on public thoroughfares has been going on for a long sime

It is stated that Midway Island, where the next cable station, to. Honolulu will be, is to be a

naval base. The tug Froquois under Captain Rodman, United States Navy, is making surveys, and will select a site for a lighthouse. Com- mander l'ond, who was scat from Washington to make the trip, is stated to have in hand also the matter of making the island a defensible station,

IT is reported from Portland, Or, that the Port- land and Asiatic Steamship Company has put into effect the reduced rates on flour and wheat to the Orient in order to meet the rates announced at San Francisco. The new rates are $1 per ton for four and $5 for wheat-a reduction of $2 per ton on flour and $1 on wheat. All the northern lines will put into effect the same rates,

We are pleased to learn that one of the five boys who accompanied Mr. A. J. May, of Queen's College, to England a few months ago has already distinguished himself. Mr. Eung Kwok Leung, aged 18, of 8 Chancery Lane, Hongkong, eldest son of Mr. Hung Pan Sam, of that address, was, on 26th May, admitted as a student of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's 100.

THE San Francisco Board of Health has adopted a resolution providing that "no cellar or other apartment below the level of the street. throughout the Chinese district shall be used as lodgings, living apartments or places of manufacture and production. It has also. directed the Health' Officer to enforce the re- solution and to obtain the passage of the neces- sary legislation to make the regulation most effective in its operation.

AN attack on Plymouth was delivered on the night.of the 8th ult, by the torpedo destroyer instructional flotilla, the object being to test THE Dutch land of plenty in the Malay Archi- the electric searchlights and the general pre pelago produces no coal., But the mineral is paredness in case of emergency. All the forts. Abundant in the neighbouring islands of Bor- redoubts, and batteries were fully manned, nes and Sumath In the latter coal is mined Two torpedo boats attempted to run the gaunt-by Government at Ombilien, and the output is iet, but did not succeed in doing so. They about acojoco tons a year. But that is barely cleared the breakwater, but were discovered half the requirements of Java, which indents and fired upon na they tried to force the Ha- largely on Australia and to a smailer extent on Japan for its supply. For special purposes moaze, thus being placed out of action.

Cardiff contributes its quota of steam fuel there as elsewhere.

On Mo day a rough looking Celestial entered a house at Kowloon, occupied by a Portuguese lady, to seek employment as cook or bey. The THE Lipton fleet was sighted off Fire Island lady did not like his looks, and told him she at 2.15 am, on the 14tli alt. The Deforest had no work for him. He lingered outside for wireless telegraph station at Coney Island the whole day, and returned this morning, but reported at midnight (13th) heing in communi- met with the same reply. He told the lady calion with Sir Thomas Lipton's steam yacht, that he would not leave the premises until he the Erin, which then was about ninety-five had been paid a month's wages. To settle the miles off Sandy Hoody. The Erin was towing question the lady had him charged, and he was the Shamrock III. All four boats were fined $10 or fourteen days at the Magistracyogether, the Erin, Shamrock III, Shamrock and her convoys. The Erin reported a this morning.

stormy passage and all well.

An attempt will be made on roth inst. to float the American schooner Carrier Dove which The went ashore at Tsung-ming Island, bottom of the vessel is tom ouì, but the lumber with which she is laden will keep the craft afloat, though it is doubtful if she will be worth repairing. The vessel was built in 1890 at Port Blakesley, Washington, and is 639 tons register. A lot of the cargo has been looted by the Chinese who have been hovering about since the accident. A court of inquiry. "will," it is believed, shortly be held-Mercury,

ACCORDING to a wire from Washington, dated

THE Nagaraki Press learns that Mr. M. 3rd ult, the Treasury Department is taking

Matsuo, proprietor of the Matsuo Engine steps to draw the fines tighter along the Mexi-

Works, Inasa. Nagasaki, is constructing a can border, t prevent the unlawful entrance THE Sin Wan Pao states that Taotni Ven Tse. of Chinese. This is done in view of the immai, business manager of the China Merchants deckyard and engine works on the caster side portation of Chinese labourers at Manzanillo. Steam-Navigation Company at Shanghai for of Kayano Island, which lies at the entrance about thirty years and who had been recuperato Nagasaki Harbour. The dock is to have a died suddenly on the 5th instant. The different depth of 22 feet; it is to be completed by March next. The necessary land for a shipbuilding ting his health in his native district since April, length of 56 feet, a breadth of 41 feet, and n steamers, godowns and branch offices at the other ports have been ordered in fly their flags yard-11,060 tsubo-is now being levelled. at half mast in memory of his death,

The engine works are expected to be ready to undertake orders in 1905.

AND EXPORT TRADE, The fact that American cotton manufacturers are increasingly interested in the subject of extending their foreign markets is indicated by the fact that one of the principal papers read before the recent meeting of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association at Charlotte, N.C. was dey led to this subject. It was prepared by Mr. Laurus Loomis, of the well known firm of Catlin & Co, and treated the subject in a very interesting and instructive manner. After calling attention to the rapid growth Ameri can trade in cotton goods in the Philippines, Mr. Loomis pointed out that still greater pro- gress-might be anticipated as soon as stean. ship lines are established plying frequently and regularly between American ports and Manila, and when the harbour improvements under construction and projected make Manila the shipping centre of American business in the Orient and a successful rival to the great distributing ports of Hongkong and Singapore. After discussing at some length the existing situation in Man- churia with reference to the trade in COLON goods already enjoyed by American manufac turers, air, Loomis endorsed the recommenda tions recently made by Mr. Miller, the United States Consul at Newchwang, viz.: (1) The establishment of direct trade with Manchuria instead of through Shanghai and Hongkong; (2) that the United States urge the opening of

THE Chefeo Express, of 4th inst., records the Manchuria to the true of all the world; and (3) that a new Consulate-General he established

THE Russo-Chinese Bank is suing its former death, from drowning, of Mr. J. Paxton, 3rd engineer of the Singan. The deceased wat in that province,

Mr. Loomis also referred to the extreme in Chinese compradore for Y170,000, losses sux-bathing, but being unable to swim had a life buoy with him, but for some reason or other, portance of establishing American bankingtained in transactions which he is stated to

have guaranteeri.

he threw the buay aside and went down imme houses abroad as an auxiliary to the extension

diately,, of the commerce of this country, mentioni & the branches already established by the Inter- national Banking Corporation and the Guarantee "Trust Company of New York 31 various points in the Orient. In conclusion, Mr. Loomis strongly urged the desirability of passing laws favourable to the increase of the American merchant marine, and especially the establishment of lines to the Orient.-Dur's Magazine.

THE POPE'S ILLNESS.

A Cableness wire 7th 1st, reports: Pre- sident Roosevelt has sent Pupe Leo XIII a cablegram of sympathy, Dispatches from

Rome say that the gut pontiff cannot live more than a few hours hat that the whole world is marvelling at his woleriu! hold on life. He continues at the ver. point of death. There is intense curiosity as to the probable successor to Leo XIII, and the new papers are filled with portraits and biphies of the leading candidates. They e Cardinals Rampollt, Oregiis, Serafino and Gori. The Conclave is preparing even unw for the election of the new Pupe. Rome is filled with the prelates, and about the Vican a great crowd hangs day

and night.Message" an being received from every monarch in the won t

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Papal Delegate Gain ...receivest in May nila the following cabin from Cardinal Rampolla, Secretary of the Pope, and his pre- bable successor: The Holy Father is in a desperate condition. There has been na im. provement. He is able to take nourishment without repugnance, The Pope's mind con- tinues perfectly clear."

Later in the evening of the 7th Monsignor Guidi received another cabir as follows: "The Holy Father is sinking fast, the climax coming at 11 o'clock last night. The prayers of the faithful are asked."

THE NILE OF 1953.

REVIVAL OF TH OLDEST CIVILISATION,

"What will the Nile Valley appear like to years hence?" is a question which Sir William Wilcocks, K.C.M.G., late Dirceu r-General of Reservoirs, Egypt has set himself to answer.

Fifty years hence, says Sir William, the sums spent on irrigation works will have brought in returns greatly in excess of the expenditure laid out on them.

There will be communication by steam along the whale length of the Nile Valley, and by steamboat and by rail it will be possible to proceed from Alexandria and Port Said to Mombassa

The Nile itself will be greatly, altered. Its waters, which to-day are lost in the greatest and most terrible marshes the world has ever sten, will traverse mighty weirs and dams,

At the Ripon Falls, where the Nile leaves the Victoria Nyanza, there wille a huge dam nearly a quarter of a mile long, while all around will be electric stations and factories.

Fifty years hence Khartoum will be an im. portant city-the terminus of three railways and a lios of steamers.

Indeed, if Sir William Wilcocks' forecast tams out to be true the Soudan will be a country overflowing with milk and honey. Be- tween Dongola aud Assouan the date-palm will have much increased. Date cultivation will have proved to be so profitable that improved qualities of dates will have been introduced, and, among the varieties to equal the popular golden dates of Algeria.

There will be a Ministry of Agriculture, which will follow in the steps ofthe Agricultural Ministry of the United States.

Through this Ministry the probibition of tobacco cultivation will have been removed from the Statute-Book, and the Soudan will be one of the recognised producers of high-grade

tobacco.

Experimental farms and agricultural banki

THE total estimated crst of the new Bombay dock scheme amunts to Rs. 3,24,56,13. It is proposed to apply for sanction of a loan of Rs. 752 lakhs.

THE Provincial Treasurer of Kwangtung, Ting Ti-chang, has been appointed Acting Governor of Kwangsi, pending the arrival of Ka Feng shit.

THE Pabang Corporation mines in the Kuantan district exported 7 771 picuis of in are against 7.387 in the previous year, and the Blat Mines 80 pictls against 552.

THE Criminal Sessions commence to-day with nine names on the calendar. The case against McEwen will probably be heard before a special jury on Tuesday.

THE death is announced, at Shanghai, of Mrs. Mary Martin Richard, wife of Dr. Timothy Richard, and for some years one of the editors of Woman's Wark in the Far East,

U. S. MINISTER Conger reparted to the State Department from Peking that the Chinese Government is about to establish a mint at Peking and mint i's own silver coins.

It is said that the confort of building a bridge over the Menan, at Bangkok, is now taking practical sh pe It has been mooted at repeated intervals during the pai three decades.

THE Honolulegislature hai appropriated $3 for the purpose of inducing - Gotu of Japan in go to Fin kuit zond personally give his treatment for prus to loves at Molokai,

THE O. S K. has arranged to buy eight coast. ing steamers from Mr. Amagasaki of Osaka for ¥1,0.000, to be paid as in Y30,000 in cash and as to the balance in new shares of the O. S. K.

ON Sunday forer non a native committed suicide by jumping fom the third-floor of a house at Connaught Road, West. He was picked up alive, but died at the Tung Wah

Hospital.

THE Imperial authorities. have decided that direct goods traffic tween Furupean Russia, Lake Baikal, Manchuris, and Dalny by means of the Manchurian Railway shall he opened this month. "

A STRONG protest is being made in Japan againt the American coasting law which ex- clades all but American vessels from the trade between San Francisco and Honolulu and the Philippines,

REPORTS are coming in regarding the recent storm

MANY improvements have been made at the Hongkong Hotel during the past year, and the Directors have now decided to instal electric light throughout the buildings.. Residents desirous of having the use of electric fans in their rooms will be enabled to do so at a small cost.

THE Universal Gazette is informed that the Directors of the Chekiang Bureau of Mines have engaged a French and an Italian engineer at a sary of a thousand dollars per month each to prospect on their behalf the mining regions in Chuchow, Yenchow, Wenchow and Talchow.

ANNOUNCEMENT was recently made at Los Angelos that with the completion of the inner harbour at San Pedro, that port would be made a port of call by the Dollar Steamship Co.'s ste mers and that a regular service would be maintained between San Francisco, San Pedro and the Orient.

THE Sanitary Beard desires the attention of householders to be drawn in the fact that stag- nant ponts and collections of water in broken flower pots, broken jars, etc. standing in their premises are a source of danger to people re siding therein, and warns them that the Board intends to treat such as nuisances.

THE Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, who re Cenly passed through Pongkong on the way to lapan have now returned, arriving in the. Colony on Tuesday morning. per the Yawala Aforu, en route to Brisbane. The Earl was recently decorated by the Emperor of Germany, with the Prussian Crown of the First Class,

THE Russian Ministry of Marine intends to equip it warships on foreign stations with operating rooms. The first of these will be fitted out on one of the ironclads going out to the Far East during the corning autumn. It will be made as complete as possible with regard to surgical instruments and requisites, and the room will be connected by telephone with the other portions of the vessel.

A WIRE from Honolulu states that word has been received there from Hongkong that the White Star liner Germanic will soon be running in the Pacific trade for the Oriental and Oc- cidental Company, probably inking the place

of the Gaelic. The Germanic is a boat of 5,070 tons, much larger than any of the Oriental and Occidental boats now calling here, and she has been long engaged in the Atlantic trade.

Two natives were charged at the Magistracy yes. terday morning with being members of the Triad Society. They pleaded not guilty. A detective

stated that on the 17th., he visited a house in Wee Hing Lane, and searched a number of boxes and found cloth documents ten Chinese hanks, two blocks, a small box of chops, a

knife and two fighting irons Mr. Sercombe Smith committed the defendants for trial.

SIR Edwin Arnold, D.C.L.E, celebrated his 71st birthday on June 10. Just half a century ago he won the Newdigate prize at Oxford in an effort which has been followed by The Light of Asia and The Light of the World. The Light of Asta is really an extraordinary feat in facility, for it was all dictated by the author after his journalistic work for the day was done. Latterly Sir Edwin has, as some of our readers will know, fallen a victim to blindness, but it is some consolation that he has the gift of pro- ducing literary werk without seeing.

THUS the Pinang Gazelle of and inst: We have heard it whispered that there is some probability of Sir Henry Blake, now Governot of Hongkong, being transferred to Singapore. We have, we believe, been accused of giving our readers rather too much of Hongkong, but in this instance we must apologise for referring to that place in this connection. Sir Henry is a man who would certainly do well with the Chinese but then we bave the Malays as well to consider, to say nothing of the Europeans, and of the Malays Sir Henry has had no experience.

THE finding of the Marine Court of Inquiry held into the circumstances attending the recent collision of the Chan Tai and the Sus THE ominous red cone, swinging point down-Lok, both of Penang, off Fulo Payo on May 28, states that the Sui Lok was in fault in its wards from the yard arm of the Tama on Saturday and Sunday, denoted a typhoon to manoeuvring and in its look out, and that i's master left his vessel before duty required him the south of the Colony, with its centre mare

to nad failed to go in one of the Chan Tar's. boats and help in rescuing the drowning people. The Chan Tai should have stood by longer. The certificate of the master of the Sul Lok is cancelled but a gunner's certificate may be granted to him.

than 300 miles away. Junks, sampans, slipper boats and almost every conceivable sort of native craft sought shelter in one promiscuous crowd in Causeway Bay, and remained there until the morning when the warning signal was removed.

A RATHER interesting case is stated to be en- AT about eight o'clock on Monday night, Sergaging the attention of the City authorities geant F. S. Dymond raided 12, Moon Street and

now, says the P. and T. Times. In 1900 the arrested seventeen persons busily engaged hea en of Nanpihsien on the Grand Canal are said to have collected $70,000 wherewith to playing pai kow. This morning the gang was hrought before Mr. J. H. Kemp and a fine of purchase supplies for the Allied Forces, but as A matter of fact they only expended some $50 was imposed upon the first and second

$30,000 putting the remainder in their pockets, defendants, and $3 upon each of the others,

and various claims are now being brought A RICH merchant at Yochow has petitioned theagalast them in consequence Viceroy for permission to operate a factory at that place for the purpose of manufacturing cotton yarn from native grown cotton. There has been a small amount of cotton yarn made in Ye how, and it is found to be better and considerably cheaper than that shipped in.

STEAMERS of the great French lines appear to be using Antwerp harbour more frequently Than formerly, Recently the Messageries Maritimes bont Himalaya loaded a cargo there for the Far East, and the Annam of the Compagnie Est-Asiatique Francaise, ship

A number of junks shit sailing vesselsped a cargo of railway material for China.. were wrecked at Kobe and at other points along the Japanese coast; the wind was more than usually violent.

MAJOR Younghusband, Mr. Claude White and Mr, Parr were expected to start on their journey to Tibet on 24th ult, At last the telegraph wire is being laid up to the frontier right through Sikkim.

THE police found a small quantity of arms and ammunition in a jun's lying in the harbour on Tuesday. The junk man bad to pay a fine of $100, or do six weeks' imprisonment. The arms were confiscated.

THE general agent of the Shanghai Sumatia Tabacco Co., Ld., has received the following telegraphic advice from the Deli Maatschappij Amsterdam, dated roth inst:"Sold 742 bales tobacco at Guilders o.yr."

THE general average statement of the s.5. Prein, consequent on the fire which occurred at Kobe on the 5th and 6th April, is being pro- pared at Yokohama by Mr. H. F. Wadman, of the China Traders Insurance Co., Ld.

THE Nichi Nichi says that the Russian Naval Office has decided to despatch the following additional warships to the Far East:-the tr ret-skip Oslabaya, 12,674 tons, the battleship Alexander II Imperator), 13,600 tons, the battleship Cemrevitch, 13,110 tons, the cruiser Aurera, 6,630 tons, and the cruiser Almas 2,385 loas.

DURING a recent voyage of the Hamburg- American liner, Auguste Victorin, to New York, one of her coal trimmers fell overboard The alarm was given, the ship at 10.30 stopped, a lifeboat was lowered, and the man was safe on the liner again at 10.37-all done in seven minutes, He was little, if anything, the worse for his immersion.

AN Indian watchman in the employ of the Hongkong Club appeared before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith at the Magistracy on Thurs day on a charge of larceny. It appears that members of the Club bave been losing various articles of late, and the goods have lately bean found in a pawashop, and the thief Idantified. Prisoner was committed for trial.

THE following cablegram has been received at the State Department from Consul-Genera!

McWade at Canton, dated 8th ult. #Viceroy Tsen asks me to transmit through your to the Christian Herald his profund and heartfelt gratitude for the donation af $10,000 for the starving of Kwangsi. Urgently needed. Says it is added proof of American friendship, and sympathy for China. Am vigorously preparing second American relief expedition."

AT the last meeting of the Penang Municipal Commissioners the President read a letter from Government to the effect that the Governor in

Council had decided to discontinue the running of the tramways after the end of the current year. The President said it was a great pity if the tramways were to be stopped and the rails pulled up at the end of the year. It would not only be a blow to the prosperity of the town, but would raise the price of stones, red earth, etc.. It would appear that the Commissioners' scheme to run electric trams would accordingly have to be abandoned.

WEIHAIWEI bas been a British possession for some four years; and a great drawback to its development, a hindrance to would-be visitors, and a source of general inconvenience to resi dents has been the want of regular and suit able means of communication with the outside world. By arrangement with Messrs. Butter- field and Swire we now have steamers calling regularly in their trips northward and south THE latest addition to the fleet of the Hamburg-ward. The subsidy Is, according to a N. C. America Line of Hamburg is the Prins August D. N correspondent, $1,000.00 per month. Wilhelm, built for passenger and cargo trade. One important clause in the contract is that the She is of the class of the Norddeutscher Lloyd foreign mail must be forwarded within 48 hours Prins Heinrich, and will probably come out to of its arrival at Shanghai. the Fast shortly. The Hamburg-America Line are building several new vessels for the China trade. The new steamer has accommodation for 860 passengers, of whom 160 will be first saloon, and a cargo capacity of $ ooo tons.

THE Osaka Asahi says that, according to an official investigation, the number of foreigners visiting Japan last year was 16,cog, the amount of money spent by them during their sojourn in this country being estimated at Yen 15,226,585. ACCORDING to statistics compiled for the last The same paper also states that during last ten years, Germany has during this period year Japanese living abroad remitted to their built fer Russia sixteen mea-of-war, a dis- families at home about Yen 5,240.com from n'acement of 31,250 tons in all, and eleven Hawaii, Yen 4.980,000 from the United States torpedo-boats in the same space of time and Canada, Yen 200,000 from Australia, Sin- nine vessels for the Russian navy were con- gapore and Hongkong, Yen 20,000 from Peru, structed in France, two in Denmark and the Yen 750,000 from Korea, Yen 70,000 from China, United States respectively, and thirteen in Yen 400,000 from Saghalion, and Yan $30,000 Great Britain. The last were the largest of from various other places, making a total of

Yen ra 190,000, all, their combined tonnage being 107,305.

Or European nations the Norwegian and THE work of constructing the line of railway Swedish are the longest lived, the Spaniards round the southern end of Lake Baikal is to the shortest According to a foreign statistical be bastened, so that the line may be thrown ratiun recently issued the average duration of open to traffic in 1904, instead of early in 1205. life is as follows: Sweden and Norway, 50 The contractors are bound to have the railway years: Britain, 45 years and 3 months; Belgian, completed by the spring of 1905, and as the 44 years and 4 months; France, 43 years and Russian Government wishes to have through months Austria, 30 years and 8 months and uninterrupted communication by train be- Prussia and Italy, 19 years; Bavaria, 36 years, tween Moscow and Dainy with the least pos and Spain, 32 years and 4 months Chicage sible delay, the contra-tors are displaying the greatest activity in the hope that they will receive ample compensation from the Govern

THE following appointments have been made A MOJI despatch says that there was an ac- at the Admiralty-Surgeons: R. W. B. Hall, will be introduced; floods will be prevented by cumulation of 124.449 tons lump, 153,222 tons

to the Bramble, to date June 5, and on recam bunt. weirs across the Albara..

mixed, and 73,357 tons dust coal there on the missioning, undated; and W. W. Keir, M.B., The land will be as crowded in winter as Ist inst. The stock of cont represents a de- to the Britomart, undated. Sub-Lieutenants: Switzerland in summer." Osiriches will be

crease of 16,339 tons on that of June 1st last. K. N. Humphries, to the Bramble, and E. reared by the thousand, and all down the valley

Comabé, to the Britomart, to date Juns 16, from Aussiout to Cairo will be cotton and sugar, mills.

A NATIVE Amab was changed at the Magistracy and on recommissioning (N), undated. Cairo itself will be a well-built -city with all on Wednesday with stealing, from a house in the architectural resources of modern civilisa-Lee Yuen Street, a cash box containing tion except a Bankruptcy Court.

jewellery and money to the value of $278.50 She was sentenced to six months' imprison.

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MESSRS, Nanwe & Co. of, Hongkong, (for whom Messrs Heng Huai & Co. are the were with Penang agents), whose steamers drawn from the Penang Singapore-Hongkong run last year, have decided to resume the service.-Echo.

IN consequence of the death from plague atment.. the Berlin Hospital of the young Vienos phy sician, Dr. Milan Sachs, the Government has decided to issus a decree forbidding further experiments with plague germs, the risk of spreading infection heing considered more dangerous to the public health than the know- ledge gained in studying the deadly microbe justifies. Dr. Sachs caught the plague in Dr.. Koch's bacteriological laboratory for fofectious diseases. The laboratory is isolated and the most minute precautions are taken at the doors and windows to prevent the escape of the germs No one is allowed to approach or enter the fullding except the investigatorsA

A GERMAN wire of 8th inst says The English Press publishes alarming reports concerning the Far East from St. Petersburg. These state that the Legation Guards at Peking are being strengthened. No oficial confirmation of these raporis has been received of Berlin,

LAST week's Straits Gaseties publishes an Order in Council extending the boundaries of the Colony of the Settlements so as to include therein the Cocos Isla ds. There is also published the Governor's proclamation giving effect to the order from and after July 15. This closes one of the peculiar occurrences inciden- tal to Empire building, remarks the SFP, THE foreign trade of Japan for the first half of this year resulted in an excess of impons of merchandise over exports of over forty million yen, and an excess of imports of treasure of over eighteen millions. This. latter excess is due partly to the receipts from the sale abroad of Government bonds, and partly to the large disbursements made by visitors to the Osaka

exhibition.

A BRITISH pickle manufacturer has come to ment, and which will be in proportion to the the opinion that honesty is not always the best number of days that the line is ready before policy. In order to do justice to the consumer the time stipulated by contract. and to be on the safe side of the British law,

be has been making his pint bottles hold a little AB the Puentang was going to her buoy on more than a pint. When these pint bottles Monday, the usual rush of sampans, touting for arrived at Canada recently the manufacturer native boarding houses, followed in her wake, found that there was a law in operation which and at length got alongside. Boat-hooks provides that any package measuring more were soon out and, fastened on to the than a pint must pay duty as a quart-Kode railing of the steamer, enabled occupants of sampans to climb aboard. During these Chronicle.

operations one of the boat-hooks slipped and DURING last year the Port Health Officer, the unfortunate man scrambling up fell into Shanghai, examined 422 vessels, crews and pai- the water. Those aboard a couple of launches sangers from Hongkong, 48 from Canton, ys made an effort to save him, and got so far as to from Swatow, 76 from Amoy and many other get hold of his coat with a boat-book, but the from different ports. Nineteen men-of-war and clothing tore and the man sunk and was transports and hospital ships were presented drowned. It is time this dangerous system of for Inspection. The number of vessels qua- touting was stopped, as apart from accidents to rantined was 14 per cent of the total number the sampan people, officers of steamers are con- Inspected. Detention varied from five hours siderably annoyed by their presence; for, as we to 7 days (Baliaraf), the average detention saw recently, one Jacoming ship lost an anchor

and several feat of chain, being 191 hours.

THE P. and O. Massilla, which left Singapore

for Bombay on roth inst. took Sr.coo,coo from the Currency Note Reserve for Bombay, where they will be kept until the arrival of the new dies when they will be re-coined. The dies for the new dollars have been made in London, The Straits Times understands that the design will. be quite different from that of the present ugly dollars, and that their principal feature will be that they will bear across the face the denomi- nation of the coin-"One Dollar -with the

Kingle head on the other side. They are also, it is believed, to be slightly reduced in size.

A NUMBER of the well-known and qualified pilots who follow their calling between Woo sung and Hankow bave formed themselves into an association in order to better serve tile interests of owners and the shipping trade generally, as well as to preserve their own: and to provide a regular steam pilotage service between the two ports. The ever shifting channels of the Yangtsze, the numerous banks that suddenly form, and the many variations of the current, make it imperative that only men who are absolutely qualified should be allowed to navigate steamers up and down this treacher ous river. The association is called "The Yangtze Pilots Association."Mercury.

A NU BER of Chinese miners operating under the name of the Jim Que Company on the site of an abandoned Trinity county town known as Canyon City, U.S.A., dug up a cigar box to-day which contained $5,000 in gold. Among the gold pieces were seventeen $50 slugs. Thirty two years ago Canyon City was a thriving min- ing town, Jacob Killenger lived there. He was killed by a cave in a mine. He was bo lieved to have considerable money, but the administrator of his estate could not find it. The Chinese company is now mining away the ground on which the town stood and is believed

to have discovered the buried treasure of the dead man,

SIR Ernest Satow, G.CBLG, "was on 12th ult the recipient of the degree of LL.D. (honoris, causa) conferred by the University of Cam bridge. In presenting the Minister to the Chancellor of the University the Duke of Devonshire, the Public Orator (Dr. Sandys) stated that Bir Ernest Satow's «eventful ́ex- perience of the Consular and Diplomatic Service had extended over 40 years, which had mainly been spent in Japan. He had lately takes infinite pains in the discharge of the laborious duties attaching to b's new posklon as British Minister in China, a position which he fitly held as the latest, diplomatic successor of the first Professor of Chiriese in Cambridge. -L. & C. Express.

WHILE the RM.S. Empress of Japan, was discharging cargo on Saturday (4th inst) as Woosung, one of the slings carried away, with the result that the contents drapped to the deck, reports the Shanghat Mercury. Three coolies who were working among the cargo and were passing at the time of the accident were caught by the flying cargo with the result that one man was killed, and the two others were severely injured. When the accident occurred medical aid was at once summoned and every assistance possible. Wa rendered, after which the wounded men wer sent ashore to the Hospital, where they 'ar now doing well. The dead man was sent his family who will be recompensed.

THE recent assault on the Austrian Emperori thus reported to a San Francisco exchange bi wire dated 12th ult-While Emperor Franci Joseph was out driving here to-day a pedes trian, holding a stick in a threatening manne man lashed the assailant and whipped up th rushed at the Emperor's carriage. The coach horses and the man was seized. The inciden caused some excitement. At the Police th prisoner was recognized as Jacob Reich, unemployed commercial agent, who called the Hofburg January 8 and insisted on seein Emperor Francis Joseph, declaring ho was th son of God and had brought his Majesty a important communication from the Almight Reich, who is pronounced insano, was the incarcerated, but has since been released.

As already recorded in our columns, on th completion, in September, of the term of Rea Admiral Harry T. Grenfell, second in 'commap on the China Station, he will be succeeded b Rear-Admiral the Hon. Asheton.G. Curzor Howe, who has hauled down his fag as secob in command of the Channel Fleet. The C. Express says that Admiral Grenfell's flagd dying on the Albdow, Brat-class battleship,bi it is reported that Admiral Curzon-Howe a fla ship is to be the Leviathan, first-class armes cruiser, which was to be commissioned et Port mouth on the 16th ult, by Captain the Ho Walter G. Stopford, to replace the Argonau first-class cruiser, Captain G. H. Cherry, T China Squadron is also to be reinforced by t transfer of the Vengeance, drst-class battlesh Captain Leslie C Stuart, from the Mediter nean Stadon. She wase mmissioned at Fort mouth in April Inst