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Kutimations.

ESTABLISHED AJ, 1841.'

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT, MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

SCOTCH-

WHISKIES.

·GREAT REDUCTION |

IN

.PRICES.

From this date the prices of our popular brands of SCOTCH WHISKIES will be as

under:

ProCase of a dor.

A. THORNES BLEND) B. GLENORCHY BLEND (A

Fine Soda Whiskyj C, ABERLOUR-GLENLIVET A Fine Peaty Flavoured Whisky) D. H.K.D. BLEND) of the Finest Old Malt Scotch Whiskies.

E, BEND.

The popular Winsky in the Far East

$1.00

11.10

12-59

1.1.00

15.00 The above prices are strictly. The discount of five per cent, previously allowed on our Whiskies ceases from this date,

LIMITED,"

NOTHER

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five cents.

The Hongkong Celegraph

Hongkong, Thursday, May 31, 1906.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French mail, if the sst May was delivered

́in Londan on the guth inst.

FATAL LAUNCH COLLISION,

DEATH INQUIRY AT THE MAGISTRACY.

An inquiry was held at the Magistracy this afternoon-Mr. F. A. Házeland sitting as Co- roner-into the circumstances touching the death of a sampan woman named Chrung Ting, who was drowned in the hinthour on the aight of the 23rd insinnt, as a result of a colli sion between the Dock Company's launich No. 7, and a sampan

The following was the jury impanelled

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. Present:-His Excellency the Governor, Major Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M G., R., His Excellency Major-General Villiers Halton, Ilon, Mr, T. Sercombe-Smith (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr, A, M. Thom

Sir Boss (Colonial Treasurer), Hom: Spencer Berkeley (Attorney General), Hon. Capt. H. L. Barnes-Lawrence (Harbour Mas ler) Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, (Director of Public Works) Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin (Registrar.

1906.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily endows the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.į SOUTH CHINA'S DEBT TO AMERICA.

TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE.

ANOTHER REBELLION.

To Tuk Evitar er trossikong Trirurati" SIR-Yuch has been recently mid and written about the unjust manner in which the THE SNIPE” GOES TO NANCHANG.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Mesura. John Blake (foremar), C. C. H. Schro General Hon. Dr. Bo Kai, C.M.G., Hon, that some Chinesa have been cruelly treated ter, and G. K. Haxton,

Inspector Langley watched the proceedings on behalf of the police, and Mr. A. C. Hol- borow, of Messrs. Dencon, Looker and Deacon, appeared for the coxswain of the launch, who 'was recently charged with manslaughter.

Shanghai, 31st May,

11.40 ani.

Chinese are treated in America, that one might suppose that the great mass of the Chinese who have visited America havo received no good at the hands of Americans, It is true by a certain labouring classes in the States, but it does not apply to all Chinese nor to all t Americans. The ill received has prinċipally come from the lower foreign element in the United-States with whom the Chinese come

and confirmed.....

The minutes of the last meeting were read into competition in regard to labour and for

this the majority of Americans are not respon- left for Nanchang,.

Hewet/Hon, Mr. Wei Yok, Han. Mr. H. E. Mr. Edward Osborne, Hon.. Mr. E. A. Po lock, K.C., and Mr. A. G. 11. Fletcher (Clerk of Concils).

MINUTES.

H

Sanitary Inspector MacKenzie, sworn, said that on the 24th May, about 11 am, two native

SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES, women went to the Kowloon mortuary, and

The Attorney General moved the first read- identified a body in the mortuary as Cheunging of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to authorize Ting. Witness subsequectly pointed out the the appropriation of a supplementary sum of body to the medical officer in charge of the two hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eight cents, to defray the charges of the year 1905. The Bill stated that the money was to be devoted to the following purposes:

mortuary.

Dr. H. Macfarlane, officer in charge of the Kowloon mortuary, stated that on the 24th May he examined the body of a Chinest DURING the 24 hours ended noon to-day there female, about twenty-two years old, and frand Post Office ...

were teo cases of plague reported in the city, all Chinese, and alt fatal. This brings the total for the year up to 663 rates."

MR. J. C J. da Silva, one of the Straits Queen's Scholars, who has done journalistic work in Loudon during the last few years, is coming et to the Strates to join the editorial staff of

the Sratts Echo.-Perak Pioneer.

THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has sanctioned the increase of Service salaries in Ceylon, to date from January 1,1905, and also the appointment of a Committee to consider a simular increase in branches of the Service unaffected by the change.

THREE members of the sampan fraternity were | charged this morning, at the Magistracy, with making fast to the steamer Héungshan, yester- day, while that vessel was entering the harbour from Macao. They pleaded guilty and Mr.“C. A: D. Melbourne fined them Sto apiece

Tux case of the alleged deposit of 10,000 yen with the Shu Yuen Bank, by Tang Cheung Hing and Tang Kwai Pe, still drags its dreary length along in the Original Court, the greater part of yesterday, and the whole of to-day, being taken up with the testimony of experts in Chinese hand-writing.

A LECTURE is to be given by Mr. G. E.

that her death was due to drowning,

Wong Cho Ng, a married woman, and owner of sampan 3,877, deposed that at 10.30 o'clock. on the night of the zyrd inst., launch, No. 7 came into collision with her 'boat. At the time. of the collision witness was returning from the 'steamer Hu', which was lying in Hunghom

Bay, to the Kowloon Dock wharf. On board the boat before the collision were only two women-the deceased and witness. Imme. diately after the collision witness's boat became full of water and sank, both women being thrown into the sca. Cheung Ting was drowned. There was a lamp on board her sampan, and that was at the stern of the boat. The launch struck the sampan on the port side. The sampun was about a ship's length from the shore when the collision occurred. When wit ness first saw the No. 7, she was about a ship's length away from the sumpun

By Inspector Langley-The No. 7 'did not blow her whistle.

By Mr. Halborow-Witness left the wharf for the fué, about nine o'clock. She had three boilermakers on board then, and lefs them on board the steamer. The night was very dark, there was a moderate wind blowing and it was raining heavily, Just off the Docks there was a very strong tide. No. 7 was also returning to the dock when the collision happened, Wit

ness's boat was taken out ofher course by the tide.

i

Judicial and legal depailments Miscellaneous service .............................. Military expenditure-volunteers Public works recurrent

Total supplementary votes......$178,412.08 The Bill was read a first time,

The Hon. the Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled an Ordin- ance to amend the law relating to the Property of married women,

The Hon, the Colonial Secretary seconded. The Bill was read for the second time and referred to the Law Csumitted..

sible, yes, more, the treatment accorded to some Chinese in the Western States has been

A rebellion has broken out at Yungahan.

11.M. river gun-boat Snipe has

RISING SERIOUS,

DEARNESS OF FOOD THE PRETEXT,

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 31st May, 2.50 p.m.

The rising at Yungshan is assum

universally condemned. Indeed, I am inclined to think that the Chinese have been treated with more leniency and consideration in the South than the negroes, which is illustrated by the conversation I had on one occasion with an educated lady of the South. The question turned upon the respective merits of the ..$197,562.25 Negroes and the Chinese and, in order to ascer 3,596.10 tain the exact opinion of the educated class, I 52.455-55 asked "Would your premit a Chinese to enter 14,500. 12 your drawing-rooms" "Yes," "Would you allowing serious proportions, and is be-

3.208.06 a negro the same privilege?" "No." "Why?"

"Because the Chinese are superior 1 the lieved to be the result of a secret Negroes in every particular," was the emphatic society movement. The dearness reply. Let it then be distinctly understood that the better and educated classes in the of fod is given as the pretext for East, North and South have not been against this rising. The Governor of the the Chinese as some would try to have us be lieve, but have reilly taught their denize ns Province is despatching troops to the from the Orient the best that there is in Chris scene of the disturbance. rian civilization, they have taught them Eng. lish and Christianity, and a large number of Chinese have gained the advanced ideas of the West. It is rather from the emigrant Euro-. pean class that the Chinese have suffered most and who have been bitterly opposed to the Chinese. This opposition is not only cop fined to America bu our Canadian friends share the lecting to some extent, for it is less than a year since one of them expressed him. seif there. "I think the best way to solve the Chinese problem is to drive them all out of any inferior race, the Africander is hated by the Canada, but the same feeling exists towards Boer, the Indian by the white man, and the negro by the American of the outh. Yet not- withstanding this spirit of inmity exercised by a few of the Americans, the Chinese have on the whole fared better in America than they do in China, allowing the Chinese to be judges. The labouring Chinaman has been treated

The Hon, the Attorney General moved the secomi reading of the Pitt entitled an Ordinance to regulate the qualifications and to provide for the Registration of Dentists.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary seconded. This was read for the second time and refer red to the Law Committee.

The Hon. the Attorney General then moved the third reading of the Bills amending the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1995; to amend relating to the Jurisdiction of the Supreme the Magistrates Ordinance, 1990; and the Bill Court, with respect to the care and commit. ment of the custody of the persons and estates. of Lunatics.

The Hon, the Colonial Secretary seconded. The Bills having been accordingly read for

The Report of the Finance Committee was laid on the table and passed,"

A. S. WATSON & CO., Woodward in the rooms of the Young Men's The sea was very rough on that night. Wit the third time, and passed, became inw,

Christian Association on Friday (to-morrow) ness said that she was compelled to put her lamp evening, the 1st June, commencing at 8 pan. at the stern of the boat, for if she had hoisted As this lecturers to be illustrated by lantern

it the wind would have extinguished it. Wit pictures of Japan, the subject of the lecture, iness knew that the Harbour Regulations re- should prove of interest...

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Hongkong,, 17th May, 1906.

(34 MANY will be interested to hear that Mr. A. J. Basto, jun, son of the well-known citizen of Macao, has passed his examination in Roman Law, reading at Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Basto has been employed in the indoor staff of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs and has employed his furlough to remarkably good pitrpose.

POST CARD

COMPETITION.

ing charged with unlawful possession of a hammer the property of the Green Island Cement Company, to find the marine bawker, who he alleged sold the hammer to him, came

quired that the light be hoisted so that *it is visible all round the horizon. When the sampan was raised the lamp was found at the stern. of the boat, and not under the hops. After witness had been in the water for some little tone and bad called "save life" No. 7 returned to the scene.

Further evidence was called. Enquiry proceeding.

THE 1-C. S. Treisang, which arrived a 15hang- hai on the 6th instant from river ports, reports seeing the German str. Meishun ashore op- posile Lanshan Bluff, on the 25th instant.

To all purchaser's at Ticaoine who was remanded yesterday, be our Establishment of $1 and upwards between June 1st and June 25th- will be given a Coupon entitling them to enter po sang, a doctor, residing at No. 142. purposes not yet known.

before the Court this morning, but failed to produce the man. Mr. Hazeland fined the delendam

Reclamation Street, Yan-ma-ti, was brought Before Mr. F. As Hazeland, at the Police Court; this morning, on a charge of being in posses sion of a unique-looking sword, last night, without a permit from the police. Defendant

a penalty of $25.

THE Waiwapu has been informed by the Chinese Minister at Berlin that the German Government has ordered some thirty add naval officers and petty afficers, with aver seven hundred sailors, to proceed to Tsinging, for

the following Competi- tion. The largest num-. ber of English words admitted possession, and his Worship imposed cruisers Chitose and Tadschiho were at Han-

that can be made from “MARIE BRIZARD.”

1st Prize:

Case Pts. Per- inet & Fils Champagne $56.50

2nd Prize:

1 Case: Royal Old Highland Whisky

The native papers in Calcutta stale that the Chinese Government has taken steps to coin rupees lor circulation in Tibet. It was found that the Indian rupee was being used in the country, and the Chinese authorities hope to check this invasion by the distribution of their own rapees and preserve to themselves the profit on a silver coinage.

THE Chinese Bank at Mukden now issues bank notes of valtte of from 10 cents to $10. These notes were printed by the Government printing house of Peiyang. Their circalation is intended to check that of the Japanese war nates. The Japanese though not able to pro-

- 24.00 bibit these sales, regard them with disfavour 3rd Prize:

and the japanese merchants and the adminis trators refuse to deal with them.

1 Case Macin-

tosh Whisky 10.00 A Loudun telegram to the Takin Anahi

AND

10 CONSOLATION PRIZES,

In the event of ties to be drawn for. All replies to be sent on Post-cards only. Prizes will be dis- tributed the 30th June when all cards may inspected at our office.

CABH LESS 10%. CREDIT LESS 5%%

syınmarises a Paris message to the effect that M. de Lanessan, formerly Minister for the Navy, has advised the French Government not to embark upon trouble with Japro at the instigation of Germany in connection with the

relations between Russia and Japan. He says policy by Russia in the Far East and adds that

H.M. SLOOP Britomart, and torpedo-boal- destroyers Pirago, Oller, Handy, and Hart arrived at Hankow on the 23rd instant. On the same date H.M.S. Kioska and the Japanese |

kow. H.M. SS. Alterity, and Swipe and the Italian cruiser Calabria wers at Kinkang on the 24th iden

IT is reported in official circles, says the P. & T. Times, that the Tartar-General of Hei- Jungkiang has now received a report from Faotai Liu Chun, stating that all the mines along the Amur River have been occupied by the Russians. The Tantar-General has been very much, surprised and sent a notification to the Russian authorities for the restoration of The mines which the Russians declined, The Waiwupu has therefore been requested to negotiate with the Russian Minister in J'eking.

THE "terror of the trams" has become so great in Singapore that a Chinaman who was charged at the Police Court with having picked a com partriot's pocket said, in denying the charge, me and mangle me. If it is a false charge may this happen to the prosecutar." In con- clusion he said "he waited the wise magistrate's decision with alacrity." However he was not in such a hurry to be dealt with, for he asked to call a witness and had the case postponed

I took this money may a trapicar run over

to do so.

writes a correspondent of the Straits Times

that Japan will not tolerate an aggressive so keen is the sporting instinct in Penang,

the interests of Great Britain and Russia that during the week three enthusiastic men,

conflict with those of Germany.

representing the Army, the Civil Service and the Police, have spent three nights at Sungei Penang, tear the Power Station, sitting up for

Tue following figures of jea exports taken from the Calcutta Customs daily entries and an iminense wild boar, which was said to be received periodically from Chittagong are issu. regarding the district. On the third night they beed by the Indian Tea Association Quan- got it. A huge animal appeared and they gave it a volley and killed it as dead as the very tity of tea entered for export to United King- deadest pork to be found in the adjacent dom for the second half of April, 1996:-Cal- Aboatoirs. On inpecting their priza there were cutta, Black 380,204 lbs.; Green, mil; Chitta. very much puzzled to find that it had some gong, Black, wil, Green, nil. Quantity entered how or other managed to tether itself to a tree, There is now, in the neighbourhood of Sungei during the corresponding period last year:- Penang, a very irate old Chinaman, whe 1 hear Calcutta, 153,956 lbs., Chittagong, 291,959 lbs. is applying for summonses against thres local Total from 1st April, 1906, to 30th April, 1906; sponsmen for shooting his very tame boar, which There are was his solo means of livelihood, Calcutta, Black, 564,475 lbs.; Green, mil; Chitthics gallant sportsmen who are shunning the tagong, Black,sil; Green, will. Total 564.475 Club, will not touch pork and have forsworn lbs. Hotal from 1st April, 1905, to 30th April, the shooting of the succulent wild pig as being [36| 1905, 513,610 lbs.

akin to emelty to animais,

GREGOR & CO., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, 19, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 29th May, 1906.

FINANCE COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Finance Committee was held immediately after the Council meeting, the Colonial Secretary presiding.

It was agreed that the following voles be recommended for adoption by the Council

PUBLIC WORKS.

A sum of three hundred and fifty dollars in aid of the vate, Public Works Extraordinary, buildings,quarters for signalmen, Green Is

land.

SUPREME COURT. IMPROVEMENTS.

A sum of one thousand dollars in aid of the, vote, Public Works Extraordinary, buildings, ré-atrangement of outbuildings at the Supreme Court,

THE TYPHOON TOWER,

A sum of seven, thousand eight hundred dollars in aid of the vote, Public Works Ex- traordinary, buildings,-time ball tower Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon.

THE PIERS.

on

A sum of twenty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-six cents in aid of the vote, Publi: Works Extraordinary, miscellaneous, re-construction of Government piers.

VAUMATI SCHO

A sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty cents in and of the vote, Public Works Extraordinary, buildings,-school, Yau-

inati.

SCHOOLS.

A sum of one hundred dollars in aid of the vote, Education, department of Inspector of School-other charges, remuneration to assist ant examiners of grant schools.

The above votes were passed unanimously without discussion, and the Council adjourned.

[N. C. D; News]

The Control of the Customs.

Peking, 27th May, With regard to the Customs question the Chinese Government has made a second reply to the British protest, stating that China has merely removed the control from the Board of Foreign Affairs to the Board of Revenue, and this does not affect in any way the powers'of. Sir Robert Hart, nor the payment of the foreign unsatisfied, however, and will present another indemnity. The Foreign Ministers are still protest,

London, við Bombay, 16th May. A Washington report states that Mr. Rock. hill (American Minister at Peking) has been instructed to join the British action in the mat. ter of the Customs Edict.

with or mich or greater courtesy in America The Anniversary of Togo's Victory.

Takio, 27th May.

The naval anniversary at Tokio was attend- ed by 300,000 people, including the Crown Prince and other members of the Royal Family. There were elaborate naval péiform-

ancel.

Tokio, 27th May.

M. Plancos, the, newly-appointed Russian Consul-General for Seaul, is still at Tokio seeking to settle points in dispute concerning

Cores. The Japanese authorities avoid dis cassion, maintaining that the proper course is by diplomatic negotiations through the Minis ler at Tukiu.

Another Shipping Combine.

London, via Lombay, 26th May. The Cunard, Peninsula and Oriental, Orient, and Pacific Mail Steamship Companies an nounce a joint Eastern and Australian service.

Germany's Quid Pro Quo.

Peking, 35th May,

cessions at iténgchou, Yungsui, Finchou, and A German firm is demanding, mining con-

Paochingfu in Honan province.

CANTON NOTES.

[From Our Correspondent.]

Canton, 29th May, 1906. We had two fires here lately; one last Friday night, close to the Canton Hospital, where only two houses were burned, and there is no insur. ance on them. On Saturday night, close to the I. M. Customs, amongst the poultry shops, about so houses were burned. Both fires hap- pened at about 9 pm, the Customs officers. rendered good service in putting out the fire. Again there is: no insurance.

than in China. He may have had a less num- ber of friends, but if he desired he would enjoy a better class of friends. Many of the parlours of American homes have stood open to them, and earnest and consecrated teachers have Laught them English gratuitously, indeed they may have been dumbfound to see their bag- gage and chuttles thrown down the batchway A Matter of Diplomatic Procedure. hy a ship's officer, and thought America a strange country, but he learned a different les son when his teacher invited him to his or her home and taught him what civilization was, and so effective has this le son been taught that there are hundreds of Chinese who will strongly affirm that their teachers loved them and did more for them than their own relatives. Better homes, belter, food, better wages and even better treatment when it considered. how many Chinese suffer unjustly on account of atriguing officials and murderous robbers. It is a fact for the Chinese Government to ponder, that the Chinese have been accorded better treatment in merica than in China and that a majority of the Chinese who have lived in America would prefer to live ander the Stars and Suipes than under the mythological Dragon, where they are always in danger of losing their lives and their families, and their property. The occasional outbursts of fana ical rage against the Chinese play no import ant role in the matter. It may be a bitter pill for the Chinese statesman to swallow but it is fact that the average Chinese who has once tasted a little of real American civilization and Western ideas prefers America to China, and America has given to China something more than mere blows, she has instructed many of ber people and prepared them for the new China that is coming. China's debt to America in their respect can never be estimated, and i the Anerican Chinese had received official recognition there would have been greater progress along industrial, commercial and mechanical lines than we see to-day. But the greatest debi lies undoubiedt, in the enrichment of the whole region whence the American Chinese comes. Go through the districts where many of the men have been to America and you will find good substantial brick-buildings which are certainly superior to the old adobe buses of the poorer districts respectably dressed and gentlemanly looking One can almost tell by the kind of houses from whence no Chinese have gone to America, created whether any of the villagers have been young Straits-boro Chinese, who appear there to show cause for not having repaid to Chatty fabroad. It is true that this "enrichment of moneylenders money which they have bor. Chinese purses have been also due to Canadian

Viceroy Shum is busy reviewing the mi- rowed at fancy rates of interest. These cases

and Australian emigration, but America has borne the leading part, and for Chian now to litary officers rifle firing, each 5 shots. Out are of such frequency' as to suggest that there

say, after many years of large profits received of about 700 officers of all grades, only 5 did is something radically wrong in the manner of by her people, that she will no longer trade not miss a shot. About So per cent, came life of our young Habas. The young man who, with Ameica because a certain class, are ex on a salary of twenty to forty dollars a month, cluded, is simply to be unmindful of the good out blank, much fun is created amongst the

received from America. Bouth China has people, allows himself to borrow money from Chetties, literally been made over by money that has sometimes from two or three dißerent Chettie's been brought from America. Let business be within a short period, is not living a life which slack in America Hongkong merchants feel it is calculated to foreshadow an lionourable and first. The great catastrophe which has so re

merchants and the whole of South China. The successful future. One young man of this Cently befallen California will effect Hongkong description recently offered to pay twenty-five real agitation of the boycott of American goods cents a month on a debt of $8.50, saying that has not come from the great man of American he was unable to pay more owing to his heavy Chinese bat from a few unwise Chinese heads of the Pacific Coast and from some adventurous expenses, among which were included pay Chinese in China who care more for their own ments which he had previously been ordered personal preferment than China's good. A just by the court to pay on other loans. Some of recognition of the debt owed in America by these young Babas are from the leading Eu South China will bring about a better

railroad ropean houses, and were their employers Large enterprises such as

mission enterprises can only be accomplished cognizant of such expensive habits it is very doubtful if their services would be retained. by with the aid of American Chinese capital A man who is in the continual habit of borrow on which so much depends: Let this fall and ing from Chetties is not a man to be trusted in many of the projected schemes will also fail. a place of responsibility, and it is to be greatly A cordial hearty co-operation between the two regretted that so many of our intelligent young countries is the only guarantee of continued Bubas should have adopted such a mode of prosperity to very one of the districts of South life, such expensive personal habits, as to lead Chisa,

FAIR PLAY, them into the clutches of the moneylandern. |

STRAITS CHINⱭSË.

THE BORROWING HABIT,

A correspondent writes to the traits Times in reference to what seems to he a growing evil:-Those who attend the Coast of Requests occasionally are surprised at the number of

buil

XILX.

The second crop is now in the market ; quan.. tity, about 2,500 bales, not quite half of last year's second crop, Price ranging $650 to $850, according to quality.

The water rose again in the river these last few days but nothing like so bad as the last

sizing; it diminished again to-day.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUR

Canadian (Tartar) ist prox. Australian (Changsha) 1st prox. American (China) giá prox. Indian (Kutang) 4th prox. German (Frine Waldimar) 5ih prox. German (Zieten) 6th prox. Canadian (Empress of India) rath prox.

The C. P. R. Cala 6.s. Empress of Japan arrived at Vancouver at 6 p.m., on 29th insi,

The Great Northern 1.5. Minnesota from Sentile sailed from Nagasaki for Shanghai o 30th inst, at to pm,

The I. C. 5. N. Co.'s a. Kuliang from Cal- cutta and the Straits of Singapore for this port to day, at to am.

The P. & A. an. Nicomedia arrived at Yoko-. bama from Portland on joth inst., and is dus to arrive at this port on rith prex.