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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1903.

MEETING AT THE LEGISLATIVE | A NATIVE was finect $10, in default fourteen

COUNCIL.

THIS AFTERNOON.

At the request of His Excellency the Governor the members of the Sanitary Board, viz, Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer (President), Hon. W. Chatham, Director of Public Works (Vic: Presiden'); Mr. C. Mcl. Messer, (Acting Registrar-General); Captain F. W. Lyons, (Acting Captain Superin- tendent of Police, Colonel W. E. Webb, R.A.M.C., Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Mr. A. Rumjahn, Mr E. A. Hewett, Dr. W. W. Pearse, Acting Stedical Oficer of Health, and Dr. Barnett, Assistant M.O.H., met at the Council Chamber at five o'clock this afternoon, when His Excellency addressed them at length on the subject of the prevention of plague in connection with the results obtained from the experiments carried out in the block handed over to him by the Sani- tary Beard: H. E. suggested the adoption of certain measures by the Sanitary Board to combat the authrenk of the disease next year, if unfortunately there should be a recurrence of the eidemic. The Hon. Dr. Atkinson spoke in reply and stated that the subjects dealt with by His Excellency would be care- fully considered at the Boart meeting on, Thursday next.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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days" bard labour, for unlawfully carrying. live fowls with their heads downwards thereby causing them needless and avoidable suffering

FOR being in unlawful possession of a quantity of brown sugar, a native boatwoman was sentenced by Mr. T. Sercombe Smith at the Magistracy this morning to three months' im prisonmen'.

H.M.S. Eclipse, with Sir Ernest. Satow on board, arrived at Weihaiwei, after a fine passage, carly on Sunday morning, (says the N. C. D. News of the 21st inst.) but almost before she was moored, the typhoon broke over the harbour, and for some time it was impossible to land. After s'me time, however, Admim! Bridge succeeded in, getting on board and taking Sir Ernest to the flagship Glery, where a salute was fired in his honour. Sir Ernest spent Mond--at Waihaiwel, and left on Tuesday morning in the Abuerity for Chinwangtao. It is expected that the Eclipse will be at Woosting to-morrow, and she will return to the naval buny here on Sun- day or Monday.

TELEGRAM ST

(Renter's.)

The “America” Cup Rase.

Londos, 23rd August. ". The Reliance won by seven minutes after deducting time allowance. The weather was splendid with a fifteen-knot breeze; the course fifteen miles to windward and back. The Shamrock started four seconds ahead but after eighty minutes of close racing, the Reliance passed her, turning the outer mark three minutes ahead and steadily increasing her lead on the run home.

Sentence on the Humberts. Madame Humbert and her husband have been sentenced to five years' solitary-con- finement.

LATER.

The Near East. Bulgarian and Greek subjects residing in Roumania have received orders from their respective Governments to return to their Chones for mobilization without delay.

·A·BIG LAND DEAL.

OLD CLUB BUILDINGS RE-SOLD.

Lit will be remembered, in connection with the discussion, at the meeting of the Legisintive Council on the 23rd ult, on the subject of public buildings with special reference to the Post Office, that, in reply to certain remarks by Mr. K. Shewan and the Hon. Gerstion: Stewart, the Colonial Secretary stated that it might be Government had lost something in sites earlier, but at the sanie truse he would remind the hon. members who had spoken that the value of the property was increasing all the

time.

The Hon. May's statement is now borne out by the completion of the sale of the old Hang- kong Club buildings, in Queen's Road, op- posite the Post Office. Several overtures were recently made to the Hongkong Land Invest- ment Co., Ld., by whom the property was until recently owned, for its sile. But the offers, which were made through the inedium, of brakers, did not meet with the owners' idea of its real value. It was not until last week that an offer, large enough to lead to business, was made on behalf of one of the occupiers of the premises, Mr. Yee Sang Fat, who carries on the business of tailor and gentlemen's out- THE Universal Gazette gathers that the British

The Sultan has ordered inmediate comfitters on one partion of the ground floor facing Government has, on the ground of the pro-pliance with all Russia's demands and the Queen's Road. The price which he paid for

this valuable and extensive property, comman 'anged disturbances caused by salt smugglers Russian squadron at Iniada Bay has been in the Yangtze region, remanded of Viceroy | ordered to return to Sevastopol,

ding three road frontages, yields a net profit of Wei of Nanking through its Consul the right

something like three-quarter lakh of dollars to the Land Investment Co.

Mail your films and Kodak orders to LeMun; yon, P. Q B. 368—Advt.

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IT is said that ex-Boxers are causing some of stationing a body of troops in Kuachow, trouble in Sarawak.

opposite Chiukiang, for the protection: of her subjects and commerce, etc. The Vicerny bas

No cases of plague were re, lel to the since declined to give consent, adding that Sanitary Board in day.

DR. Lim Boon Keng has resigned his seat on the Singagore Legislative Council

PARCEL mails for Eumpe, &c., pers.s. Vul will close at 3 pm on Friday, the 28th inst.

One more chance to buy a Kodak for $5; a good Kadak. LeMunyon, 31, Des Vieux Road-Adut.

RUBBER trees in Ceylon are being attacked by a new fungus The local Planters' Association is taking steps to deal with it.

THE Czur kas given orders for the establish- ment of direct telegraphic communication be- tween 5. Petersburg and Vladivostock.

A LECTURE on the position of the Straits Chinese with regard to the development of China, by Dr. Lim Boon Keng, is primed on the third pige.

FIVE, dollars of seven days' hard labour was the fine imposed upon a celestial at the Magis tracy this morning, for beliaving in a disorderly manner in a sampan at Yau-ma-ti yesterday.

China is quite capable of coping with her dis turbers of peace. Numerus despatches have been recently sent out by the Vicerny, strictly ordering the civil and military officials "to" speedily put a termination to the trouble caused by the salt smugglers.

A PRIVATE telegram from Peking received by friends of the cashiered and condemned ex- Marshal Su, states that it is estimated that it will cost that officer's family at least 19,250,000 to get his sentence of "Peca itation at the next Autunin Assizes commuted to b nish- ment, and Tis. 50,000 less than the above sum to delay the carrying out of the ex- cution to 1974 Wang Cih-chun, it is further sta ed, bas Fantminted Tis 7,000 as first instaliment to Peking to lock up the mouths of meddling Censors. As a first result of the above draft Clinu Shu-mu, the Censor who lately nearly succeeded in getting Wang "arrested' and thrown in prison, has been now appointed Assistant Examiner for the Shansi M.A. com. petitions and he his thus been sent. out of town, where he must keep quiet for at least three months-V. C. 1). News,

Fresh Kodak filo, plenty of them, at LeMun DR. Morrison, the Times correspondent at 'yon's, 31, Des Voeux Road-Adet. king, was a passenger by the Sinto maru fem Chefes to Chemulpo, and on arrival on the 11th instant at Chemulpo, Dr. Morrison pro- ceeded to Seoul.

No further appointments or promotions are to be given, it is said, to men from Canton, Fu- kica, Hunan, and Kiangsi as these provinces are furnishing the anti-dynastic movement, and a close watch is to be kept in all these districts,

Y-so Tu, a native af Hunan and second on the list of the first examination in modern science, has been arrested in Peking, and is now in custody. He is charged with having -written for the Press, and is also regarded with

THE crew of the German sailing ship W. C. Watjen, now lying in Sir gapure hard out, had terribly rough experience recently, reports the local Times. The ship was towed into this port yesterday afternoon, in a dismantled con- dition, by the British steamer Moresby which hd brought her all the way up from Hall on March 6th of Sound, British New Guinea.

Russia and Turkey.

(Shanghui Mercusy.)

The C. E. & M. Co.

Tientsin, 11th August, the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company Mr. Wynne retires from the management of either in October or Deceinber next.

(N. C. D. News.) The Congress of Chambers of Commerce in Canada.

London, zoth August. There is a partial deadlock at Montreal, the Manchester delegates having dissented from the terus o' the commercial policy of the con- gress.

{Muniła Cableners.) The German Army.

Berlin, 19th August. The Kaiser has asked for an addition of 40,000 man to the army,

Railway for the Philippines.

---Washington, 19th August.——— of a railroad to extend six hundred miles north Secretary of War Root favours the building

from Manila, with branches in other directions. The newspapers of the United States dis- cuss the matter at length and capital is much interested..

The Alaskan Boundary.

New York, 21st August. Secretary of War Root has suled for London where he will be chairman of the American delegation on the Alaskan Boundary Commis. sion. and Senators Lodge and Turner have gone Presiden Roosevelt, Secretary Rent,

over all the papers in the case carefully.

The Borneo Islands,

London, 21st August. Great Britain has announced to the United States its agreement to arbitration over the seizure by the Unites States of certain islands

the coast of Bornea.

CHINESE EXCLUSION EROM

- THE PHILIPPINES.

this year, the W, C. Butjen was caught in

The laws of licensing masters and pilots as Do your own developing without a dark room a terrific cyclone off New Caledonia, and the they exist in the Philippines, and the Chinese by using an Eastman developing machine.wind and wave played havoc with her generally Exclusion Act, are responsible for the captain LeMunyon-Avi,

-swept her clean in fact. Of her cargo of and the crew of the Chinese steamer Took On 65,-70 cases of kerosine oil, 15,000 being detained by the immigration officers and sailing gear utterly wrecked, and practically were jettisaned. With her rudder gone, her for their being returned to Hongkong on the first available boat, says the Manila Cablenezes, The Took On arrived in this port from Hong- only just above water, she floated at the mercy kong in char,e of a Chinese skipper named of the sea to the coast of New Guin a, a dis- Loo Moon and an all-round Mongolian crew. tance of over 1,000 miles. Here, at the begin-Act 78, of the Customs regulations for ship- ning of June, she was sighted by the Moresby pin, makes it prohibit ry for foreigners, with ont American licences, to nwvigate vessels in which at once picked her up and towed her to the waters of this archipelago. a safe anchorage in Hall Sound. The Moresby When the Custom House officers, therefore, afterwards towed her to Singapore, a jury rud. boarded the Took On, they could not allow her captain to come ashore and they were com der having been fixed to the sailing ship topelled to retain his crew likewise, their landing assist in steering her. The ship is now lying being against the immigration 1 tws. out in the roads here, and she looks a veritable wreck.

suspicion on account of having been educated in Japan.

THE Tung Wen Hu Pan is informed by a Fenzlien (Manchuria) telegram that the Russian military authorities at Antunghsien have issued a proclamation ordering the local Chinese residents to hoist the Russian flag outside their houses, otherwise they would be fined seventy faels each. Antunghsien is within the juris. dieting of Funghuang and is about 150 li from the city.

Tun.Mainiche's Peking correspondent writes: Viceroy Chang is indignant over Russia's "offensive attitude in Manchuria, Elec and Shingiang. The Viceroy intends to insist upon the opening up' of Manchuria on and after the date of the third evacuation of Man. chuna, and to then make public the seven clauses of the Russian proposal for a secret Treaty as submitted to China. The Viceroy counts upon obtaining assistance from Japan

ultimately.

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The steamer is to remain here, for she is to be sold to a local firm, but her crew skipper and all, will have to go back whence they came.

THE RECENT FIRE ON THE

" TONKIN"

OFFICIAL INQUIRY AT THE FRENCH

CON-ULATE.

An official inquiry has been held at the

French Consulate into the cause of the recent

fire on board the stageries Mariites Con Pany's steamer Tarkin in Kobe harbor.

The finding of the Court is that the con- fgration was due originally to the spontaneous ignition of chlorate of notash, of which a large of potash was being flischarged at the time, and sportion of the cargo consisted. The chlorate the floor of the hold of the ship was inure of

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HONGKONG COLLEGE OF

MEDICINE,

The following note of arrangements made for the session commencing on Monday, 14th September, has been communicated to us by Dr. J. C. Thomson.

The lecturers are:-Practical Chemistry and Toxicology-Dr. Pearse; Pathology--Dr. Hun- ler; Anatomy-Dr. MacLean Gibson; O5- icology-Dr. MacLean Gibson and Senior Students; Surgery-Dr. Rennie; Practice of Medicine Dr. K. Gibson; Medicine jurispru. dence-Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G; Physiology Lieutenant Lamballe, R.Mic; Midwifery - Jordan; Materia Medica-Dr. Marriott. Chemical work at Alice Memorial and Nether sole Hospital tot daily.

Thirty-one students are at present of the roli; and five others have already intimated their intention of joining the college next session.

"CAPTAIN HENRY BROWN

AGAIN!"

A few days ago Captain Brown was arrested and charged for being drunk and incapable in the public street.

The following morning he appeared before Mr. T. Sercombe, Smith to answer the cha go. He informed His Worship that he intended leaving the Colony. hit the passage 10 Singapore spa and he had only $5.9519epocket. tis Worship remanded the case for week in order to enable Brown to procure the balance of the passage money. His week expired this morning and he re appeared before the Coun. He was asked whether be had the money, and replied in the negative, and further stated that one Miller promised to pay half his fare. Miller did not, however, turn up.

His Worship-llow long have you been in the Culony-Five months. I arrived here in March.

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THE ARREST OF REFORMERS}

AT - NANHGI-ASIEN..

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ON LONDON, Telegraphic Transfer .................tho

· Bank Billä, on demand .....1/10 1/16° The Sin Wan-pao of 10th inst, writes :-'

Credits, 4 months' sight...1/10 Yesterday there were two stories current

D'ments 4 months' right about the arrest of revolutionists at Nanhai | On BERLIN, (demand).

***** M.I, 871 (Nanwai) hsien. (1) A certain licentiate of On PARIS, Bank Billa, on demanda.33. Nanhui-hsien having recently gathered a crowd tone, the Magistrate Tai of Nanhui-hsien

Credits, 4 months' sight ..............234) of people and made a speech of revolutionary ON NEW YORK, Bank Bills, on demand ...44)

Credits, 30 days' sight. 45 arrested and triert him and asked for further ON BOMBAY, Telegraphic Transfer.........137

On demaud instructions from the Taotai Yuan of hanghai, (a) Another version of this story is that in a ON SHANGHAI, Telegraphic Transfer? certain school at Nanbui-hsien there are four

Private 30 days' sight... school teachers who recently made speeches on ON YOKOHAMA, TË education. The local people grew angry at Sovereigns, Bank's Buying Rate..... what the teachers said and reported to the Gold Leaf toe touch, per tal .... Magistrate that the teachers were revolu-Bar Silver........ tionists. The Magistrate without holding due. investigation arrested them and wired to the Viceroy Wei Kwan-tuo to give him (the Magis" trate) orders to decapitate the prisoners.

The Kuning-pac, or the China. National Gazette, says that four reformers were arrested at Nanhai hsien on the 17th inst. 1 ecause of speeches they had made and they are now in the custody of the Magistrate. It is feared that they will be condemned as revolutionists and summarily decapitated.

THE SUPAO" CASE.

The China Gazette publishes the following extract from a despatch or letter from U. S. Consul-General Goodnow, the Senior Consul at Shanghai:-

"August 2nd, 1903-

"On general principles the Foreign Settle. ments ought not to be a refuge for Chinese tlefainers of their Rulers and plotters of treason against their Government and in the case of those who plead guilty it would seem that they ought to be delivered up to the Chinese officials for punishment. These men are the leaders in an anti-dynastic society of extensive propor. tions which is permeating the entire Yangtse Valley and unless chrcked by the severest pun. ishment of the leaders is likely to gain such proportions as will greatly bumper foreign trade and jeopardize the safety of the Empire and eutinger the lives of many foreigners." THE FIRE ON S.S. "INDRAWADI "

AT SINGAPORE.

At 8.30 this morning (says the S. F Press of the 18th inst.) the British steamer Indrawadi of the Indra Line, for whith Messrs. Behn, Meyer & Co, are agents, hoisted the signal communicated with the Tanjung Pagar Dock that she was on fire, and the agents at once

Co., who sent the tags Sunda and Bangkok lo the assistance of the burning vessel.

The fire, which occurred in the larger of the two after holds, was first discovered by the second officer. The vessel was working cargo at this hold all yesterday, and at she was to leave for New York to-day at noon the hatch was put on last evening at 6 o'cinck; and securely fastened for the voyage. By a mis- take, however, the cargo slings were left in the hold, and as these were needed this morn ing to work a small quantity of cargo to be put in the fore hold, the hatch was taken off and the second officer, Mr. Scott, went down into the hold with a quarter-master, to obtain them, While in the hold Mr. Scott discovered a smali wisp of smoke issuing from behind some bates, and further examination proved that the smoke was coming from the very hottom of the hold Efforts were made in Irante die 11d and ex- tinguish it, but of no avail. The batch was that put on again and securely battened down, but before long the gases generated blew off the hatch, the force of the explosion sending it over the side or otherwise some of the crew might have ben seriously hurt, The second officer as it was had a narrow escape, as hé hai only just stepped off the hatch a minute or twn before it was blown away,

OPIUM QUOTATIONS. To-day's quotations are as follows-

MALWA NEW

LAST YEAR OLDEST

PATNA NEW

OLD .... BENARES NEW ....

OLD .....

PERSIAN (PAPRR)..

..SI1.03 -57-45

Per chest @ No Sales

920/940

@ 990/1,020 @ 1,070 @ 1,082)

1,070 No Sales No Sales

Co-Day's Advertisements.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

· No. 175 (SPECIAL).

CHINA SEA.

SWATOW DISTRICT,

WRECK OF CHINESE GUN- BOAT OFF BREAKER POINT.

TOTICE is hereby given that the following

Nnformation has been received by tele.

graph from the Commissioner of Curtoms at Swałow.

A Chinese gunboat has been sunk by the Empress of India off Breaker Point and lies in 16 fathoms of water in the following position:

Breaker Point bears N. 82° W. Mag.,

distance 15 miles.

The masts are showing above water. She is right in the fairway, and a Danger to Navigation.

H. G. MYHRE

Acting Deputy Coast Inspector. Imperial Maritime Customs, Coast Inspector's Office,

Shanghai, 21st August, 1903,

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Stenmehle

"HITACHI MARU,"

having arrived from the above Forts, con- gees of cargo are hereby informed that their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Goods are being landed and placed at their "

Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon, TO-DAY,

Goods not cleared by the 31st instant will be subject to rent.

By this time the tugs Sunda and Bangkok had arrived and those were got to work from these vessels on to the burning cargo. They were only sufficient however to keep the fire under control till about 11.30, when it broke out again and volumes of stifling smoke poured All ship-damaged packages must be left in from the hold, driving back the officers and the Godowns and Notice of same sent to this crew of the steamer who were working streau-Office before the 3rd September, or claims in ously to extinguish the fire. It was then de-connection therewith will not be recognized, You are a master mariner, and cannot get cided to swamp the hoki, ani seven jets were

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. work? No. I have tried.

got to work, the pumps on the tugs working at

Hongkong, 25th August, 1903. though the quantity of water pumped into the full power. This fortunately subdued the fire, vessel, gave her a heavy and dangerous list to starboard,

You were once connected with some larceny in the Army?7-Yes, the Burmah Infintry.

You were once passing under the name of

Ansell 7-Yes, that is my pame,

Brown was further asked bow he managed to get on without money, and he stated that on arrival here he was given $89 and could live on $1 a day. His Worship passed sentence of

three months' hard labour.

The origin of the fire is not known, but as the hold where it occurred is full of tea, gutta. percha, and kapok it probably broke out amongst the latter, through a match being carelessly dropped by one of the cargo coolies. The vessel is to be taken in Tanjong Pagar to-. day where the damaged cargo, which is said to be fully insured, will be removed.

Directly the fire was reported Acting Inspec THE ORIENTE HOTEL.

lor Dooley sent a party of Marine Police to the vessel to render any assistance necessary, sub- Further information clating to the sale of sequently following himself with Sergeant the Oriente Hotel, Ld., in Manila, has been Murphy in a steain launch. The fire was gathered by a Telegraft reporter today. The practically in hand at one o'clock. The Indra. rendi arrived here from Yokohama on the 12th properly was under lease by the Company to a

having called at Kobr, Moji, Shanghai, and third party who carried on the business of the

Manila. Her owners are T. B. Kayden of hotel. In cancellment of the lesse heavy com- pensation had to be paid to the le-ser by the Liverpool, and she is quite a new ship, having vendors, who, after paying all legal and other been built only last year al Whiteinch. The expenses, such as assignment fees, etc. attach-Indrawadi is a vessel of 3 360 tons gross, and ing to the sale, are expected to net the tolalis commanded by Captain Conby. sum of four lakhs of dollar in round fi ures.

THE S.S. "JAR, HING" BREAKDOWN.

STEAMER RE-FLOATED

A NOTICE to mariners is issued from the Coast) Inspector's Office, Shanghai, as to an intended change in the position of the Kiutoan Light ve-sel and the lighting of the Fairy Wreck, in the South channel entrance to the Yangtze, to the effect that in consequence.of the extension to the southward of the Middle Ground, the Kiutoan gh-vessel will be shifted, on or about the 15th September next, to a position one mile N. 65° 30' W. of her present station. And, that the Fairy Wreck unlighted buoy will be replaced by a gas-fighted hell buoy, with a conical superstructure, painted green bearing the word " Wreck "in white letters, and showing an occulting White light every 6 less strewn with particles of the chemical which

In our sue of last evening we printed a wire THE NC. D. News states that, a private letter seconds, thus: Light 4 seconds, Ecl pse 2 had fallen from damaged kegs. Several of the froin our Canton correspondent, gving the from Port Arthur -tel the 12th inst. fully con- seconds. The bearing of the Kiutoan light-along a few feet of the floor of the hold, and Steamboat Companies' new river steamer Th

kegs, while being hoisted on deck, had dragged news of the beakdown of the joint River firms the report that the Russian women and vessel from the Tunisha will be N. 62° 55' consequently over the particles of chemical Hing. We are now in receipt of further parti- children in Port Arthur lave, received official W. as against N. 62° 27′ W.; and the fairy strewn thereon, and the friction thus caused culars from our correspondent, who writes:-The notice to send in their names to the authorities Wreck, marked by a gas-lighted fell Buoy, ignited some of the chlorate. The sparks 5.8 Tak Hing, owned by the River Steamboat immediately, in the event of their desiring to will lie in a direct line betw en the two light thus produced spread rapidly, and in an return to Russia in case of war. There are vessals, on which line the best water over the casts, the contents of which caught fre, Branch) and 3.3. Nanning (Captain Thamas) incredibly short time te che some damaged Companies and placed on the West River run in conjunction with 9. Suinam (Captain now 84 or o troops in Port Arthur and Dalny, flats is to be found. The bearing of the S.E thus set ing ablaze the whole of the chemi started from her anchorage on Sunday morn In fighting trim, while the Russian fleet in

Knoll gas-lighted Buoy from the Kiutoan liht cal stored in the hold. The presence in the

ing at 830 in command of Captain Webster, these waters now amounts to seventy-three vessel's new position will be, N. 36 00 W. liable to load the atmosphere with particles of Canton and abreast of the Salt Flats in the same hold of other goods, such as collon, On getting just beyond the harb ur limits of Vessels should still pass to the northward of the organic matter, may, the Court thinks, have Front Reach her starboard propellor dropped Klutoan light-vessel. Those inward bound contributed to make the chlorate of potash and was lost in mid-channel. The captain hauling up N. 36" of W. for the SE. Knoll more easily combustible, and there a possi

had to beach the steamer owing to the inrush Buoy as soon as they have passed her. bility that, the kegs being bound with iton

of water. However, she was, eventually re- hoops, the contact of one of these rustly hoops floated and anchored in the harbour in the bearings given are magnetic.

with the chlorate lying about may have been Front Reach, and divers have since been the chief cause of the fire, iron rust being one

engaged in recovering, the lost gear. of the elements that, being mixed with chlorite of potash, would cause the latter to ignite more readily.

vessels of all denominations.

Framing, fancy and artistically done by Le Munyon, 31, Des Voeux. Road.-Advt. THE Universal Gazette is informed that Viceroy.Wei of Nanking has telegraphed to the Aeling Viceroy Chen of Szechuan, informing him that the members of the Patriotic Society of Shanghai dared to instigate anti-dynastic move- ments, consequently several of them have since been arrested, and asking him to do the same in Szechuan, should any of these degenerated beings be found in that Province. Since the above communication was made public, the young members of progressive societies in Chengtu have scattered, for fear of being arrest ed as revolutionis's.

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

All

English (Ballaoral) 27th inst. American (Nippon Maru) 28th inst. Australian (Eastern) 29th inst.: Indian (Rumiang) 31st inst. German (Kiautichou) ist prox. Australian (Chingiu) 7th prox. Canadian (Empress of Japan).8th prox.. The Silk ex C. P. R. Co.'s 8.1 Tartar from Hongkong on 22nd ult., arrived at New York on 23rd inst.

SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER-A-SK for ASAHI JAPANESE PEER-

Ad oun :

In the opinion of the Court no special blame appears to attach to anyone, and it is evident from the extreme rapidity with which the flames spread one of the witnesses testified that, in his opinion, if the accident, had occurred at night not half of the men who were in the hold would have had time to escap and from the nature of the smoke that almost instantaneously came out of the hold in large volumes that nothing could be done at the outset to extin guish the flames.--Kobe Herald..

SE for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER-

AG. Gimali

THE JAPANESE' AT. NEWCHWANG.

A correspondent Victor" writes that the signal "NA". I am on fire" was not hoisted as usual at the gaff of the signal stations, but on the lower yard, where it was not very noti ceable. He believes the gaff was intended especially for fire and danger signals, and bas always been used for that purpose.

COMMERCIAL.

FREIGHT.

Last week's settlements, with which thirteen vessels were conce ned, of which only two are British, show no improvement in the dull state inquiry for coal tonnage but at rates which can of the freight market. There was a lit le more not be considered too good. Mororan to Hong- kong, one steamer (German) of 1022 tons, was engaged at $1.60 per ton. Moji to Hongkong the chaters effected were****

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British steamer, 2,456 tons at $175 peton a German

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L 11 1.80 # Norwegian of 722 Moji 10 Amoy a tons at $2.50 per ton $550 per ton was the rate for one fixture (1,205 ns from Kuchinatzu to Zamboanga. Hongay to Hongkong was done at $1.65 per ton for a British and a Ger man boat of 1,494 and 1.103 tons, respectively. A German vessel, of 1,00 tons secured so cents per pical for a vayage from Rangoon to Manila and Cebu. Rice freights, Saigon to 1 Pr Philippines, were settled as follows:--

Norwegian str., 708 tons, 27 cents per picul. German 45 1,047, 19, 27

I Norwegian 1,010 25

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