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NEW SERIES No 5167

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CONTENTS.

Births, Marriagos and Death. Leading Artielos:-

Disease in Bangkok.

A Favour to Chinese.

A Unique Opportunity Los The Optimist in the East, Manita's Tribute to Hongkong. The Kiangsi Riots,

Telegrams:-

Nanchang Tragedy.

Rising in Shantung.

Riols in Korea."

5.5. Sidoia Quarantined.

Another Rebellion.

Meetings:--

Legislative Council,

Sanitary Board.

The "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd.

Legal Intelligence-

Another Bank in Court,

Whats in a Name?

An Important Legal Point.

The Seven Alleged Perjurers. Bankruptcy.

Executor and his Rent. Police.

Disorderly Queen's College Bays. The German Seaman's Case,

"Off Colour."

Fatal Launch Collision.

Riotous Japanese..

Kidnapper in the Dock.

I

Alleged Attempted Murder.

Correspondence:-

"Music Hath Charms."

Queensland to the East.

South China's Debi to America.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports

Subsidiary Coinage in Hongkong. House Collapse at West Point.

5.S. Lucia Vittoria.

Piracies in Hongkong Waters.

ment.

Hongkong Telegraph.

晚一十月四閏年二十三

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1906.

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY LOST.

THE OPTIMIST IN THE BASI.

六拜禮

我二月六英港香

MANILA'S TRIBUTE TO HONGKONG.

(30th May.)

$IÀ PER ANNUM.

SINGLE COPT, À5. CENTS.

into some notoriety recently. At the same time it will be hoped that the native author- ities will be equal to the emergency and rlevise such practicable plans as to bring down the cost of the staple commodity of the Chinese to their normal level, and so.. remove all ground for disturbance which may, if uncontrolled, unfortunatbly lead to violence by a mob such as the Kingsi tabble have shown themselves capable.of in the last missionary riot.

TELEGRAMS.

" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "**

SERVICE,

NANCHANG TRAGEDY.

WAIWUPUS INDEMNITY OFFER.

TERMS OF SETTLEMENT-300,000 TAELS

From Our Own Correspondent.],

Shanghai, 25th May,

2.25 p.m. The Waiwapu have now amended,

submitted to the French Government. the proposals which they previously ia settlement of the claim made as a result of the tragedy at Nanchang."

nity of 300,000 taels, on account of

It is proposed to pay un indem the damage done to mission build-

gs.

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No compensation is offered for the death of Lacruche," who, was one of the victims of the outrage.

RISING IN SIIANGIUNG,

DETAILS STILL LACKING, **.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 28th May,"

p.m.

2.25

It is reported that a rising has egurred in the province of Shan. tung.

No details have yet been received here as to the nature or extent of the a outbreak.

and the impossibility of obtaining any of the lie Queensland Government, now in Hong-tus artistes, in whom there is no jealousy. All'esinenunications interlot for publication in comforts and luxuries which tend to recon kong, the fact that the Commonwealth President Roosevelt said that nu foreign cile the exile to residence in the Far Cabinet had decided to extend the exemp. Contributions would be received towards the East. Of course, it is only right and tions of the Immigration Restriction Act relief fund. Will he, or, has fic, accepted proper that a resident in Siam should granted after considerable agitation to the the stupendous receipts of the London The Health Authorities of Hongkong so strenuously exercise bis mind to see only the Japanese, to Chinese officials, merchants, Musical Club's concert? If not, they may very seldom receive a meed of praise that it bright side of the picture. True, it means students and travellers. That is undoubtedly threaten to visit America, and then we

would seem niggardly to withhold the marvellous will power and extraordinary a step in the right direction.", Australia night expect to licar of another disaster. moderaic but discriminating remarks of an mental effort which might be better emploTM cannot suffer by the admission of the ed in other channels, but it is commend respectable classes of Chinese who seek

expert like the Chief Quarantine Officer of the Philippines" when they are in favour of able, and should entitle the writer to one of to broaden their mental horizon, to gain

the local staff. Incidentally, it may be ōb- | This raton per quarter att per mansem, proportional. those imedals which are so lavishly distri information regarding trade opportunities,

served that the Sanitary Board somewhat The daily iste is delisured free when the nitributed by the Siamese King on all possible to act as agents in China of "Australian

" (25th May.) accosible in teanger. On coples sont by post all occasions, from the opening of a ten-foot producers, or to acquire that education

resemble the aucient prophet who had It is decidedly refreshing to find some- dilitional $1.50 per quarter fe charged for postage. bridge to the celebration of a semi-Royal which the colleges of the Commonwealth tedy outside the ranks of the taipans who is of course, that the Sanitary Board has no honour in his own country. Not. The postage on the weekly ique to any part of ike

birthday. world is 30 cents par quirter,

But occasionally we obtain a are eminently fitted to impart. The work supremely contented with his lot in the no honour in Hongkong. The Chinese Anglo Coples, Deity, teu cents: Wookly, twenty. glimpse of the real state of affairs in Siem: Oning-man, the artizan, is not affected by the Far East, to whom the fluctuations of the coolics who have to turn their res the roth inst, the Siam free Press published admission of Chinese, gentlemen who are dollar arc of no moment, and whort Fenates into the open street, at the behest an editorial on the subiect of the non-exist only making a passing visit to the country, discovers himself in such casy circumstances of the Department when the spring cleaning ent water supply of Bangkok, and said: and the cry of "Australia for the Australians"at he is in a position to lecture his fellow. comes round, regard the Sanitary authorities "The mortality rate from cholera is growing still holds good. It was only fair that ad labourers and to decry the wails of the as a sort of fetich, whose word is more to be to an alarming degree. The New Roadvantages grauted to the Japanese should be griffin. As a rule, the individual who starts feared than that of the native Zukony. But looks like one long procession of coffins extended to the Chinese. Mr. Jones, in a The cry of "wolf" has a multitude of sup-worship is not exactly honour, and terror daily from dawn to dark, and still there further interview on this question, as to the porters-certainly in Hongkong and as- cannot be described as reverence. The seems to be no serious effort made to stem general effect of the operation of the laws suredly in Shanghai. But in Singapore there honour, for which the Sanitary authorities the tide of death. We were informed a restricting the admission of Asiatic peoples is one, who declares that "upon what for crave is of the character offered by Dr. V, couple of days ago by a high official that the into Australia, remarked to a representative this part of the world may be regarded as a G. fieiser of Manila. It seems that the project of supplying Bangkok with a whole of the Hongkong Telegraph With my very modest income" i finds himself in sonic water system would be shortly under self the question of a white Australia is not

good people of the neighbouring "islands Elysium. Some time ago a correspondent have been reading the reports in the Hong- taken and that the work would be completa matter of economics, it is a religion, but I in one of our contemporaries in the Southern kong papers regarding the number of cases ed within five years, according to present am nota bigot. Apart from my frequently Settlement bewailed the cost of living for of pingue reported in this Colony every day. calculations. This looks hopeful; but expressed opinion that concessions to any those who were in receipt of moderate sal how many will have shuffled off the mortal Asiatic race must similarly be granted to the aries. After referting. to the increasing detailed to inquire as to the possibility of

A representative of the Manila limes was coil before the crystal fountains of Chainat Chinese, since my official connection with prices charged in the markets for the neces-infection being brought from Hongkong to will relieve the wants of the population, the East I have recognized the desirability of sanes life he went on to refer to a griey- the Philippines by Chinese immigrants. which season after season is driven to the allowing the best Chinamen to visit my coun afce which will be keenly appreciated in Already the Insular Government have had a most desperate straits to provide enough of try." With that spirit the educated Chinese fongkong. He spoke of the difficulty Ex hard task in stamping out cholera, wholesome water to tide over the dry months are not likely to quarrel. They have sought for perienced by married people of the middle smallpox, dysentery, typhoid and all of the year." That is a very different story nothing more from America; they have not class-that is to say, those who do not wish the rest of the discases which peculiarly to the glowing account which sought to objected to the conditions prevailing at the to herd in tenements with coolies and can-tulong to a tropical country. The very prove that Bangkok and its environs might Australian ports with regard to the qxamina- not afford mansions on the outskirts of the suggestion that plague might be introduced be considered the Riviera of the Far East. tion of Chinese visitors and, indeed, there city-in finding houses of a rental within was enough to make the cheek blanch, and The fact, of the matter is that so long as the has been no question of attempting to secure their means. In fact, he said, there was not

the hair grow grey. So the Manila news Siamese Governing neglects its obvious better terms that those now offered. The half-way house,bettreen a palatial bungalow paper man begins his account of an inter- duly to supply the inhabitants with anAustralians are wise in their generation in and a tenement in the heart of the city. Review with the Chief Quarantine Officer in abundant supply of fresh water disease will offering this measure of exemption from the plying to that statement, the correspondent, this cheerful way: "Bubonic plague con continue rampant, carrying off the brightest provisions of the Restriction Act. There is who lives a life of bliss in Singapore, de-tinues to rage in Hongkong. The death members of the European population and à vast field for Australian enterprise in China, clares that the assertion is so obviously list is increasing rapidly, but almost all the decimating the natives who have to depend and, so long as nothing is done to estrange wrong that it scarcely merits contradiction." cases are among the Chinese and in the on the brackish water of the Menam to the people-Austrália should find an immense If that correspondent's word could be ac-'

Chinese district. The saving clause would quench their thirst in the dry season. We outlet for her surplus products in the Mid- cepted in its entirety then Singapore must almost seem to give cause for satisfaction, ay fulminate against the water, authority die Kingdom. Mr. Frederick jones, the indeed be far ahead of Hongkong, for it is were it not for the fact that quite as many in Hongkong when the state of the Queensland Commissioner, may be congra- the most difficult thing in this Colony to Chinese travel between Hongkong and reservoirs permits of only a hmited and tulated on being able to make the autoce secure the tenancy of a house whose rental Manila as Americans or Europeans. So intermittent daily supply, but at least ment he has made, for it is bound to have à is not exorbitantly high. Indeed, it is safe that there is in reality an insidious sog. that supply is fresh and wholesome, and beneficial effect on his mission in the Far to say that the average house-occupier in gestion of danger in the last remark, not laden with the germs of every dis-Bast.

Hongkong spends the greater part of his However, the journalist interviewed the case under the sun, Siam hopes to rival

monthly salary on rent and taxes. How Manila Health Authority on the subject Japan as a country of progress and enlighten

A Siamese Prince is. touring Japan

some people are able to do it is a mystery and calmly hinted that vessels from Hong- to everybody. If they live respectably in kong should be quarantined. Dr. Heiser, and North China, presumably with the object of obtaining information regarding

decent houses it must be at the expense of who is evidently a gifted man, well adapted The jetsam which floats up with every nihy home comforts. They may bear a the constructive works being carried on by mail from Europe reveals very conclusively smiling face in front of the world, but there Philippines, replied: "Manila has nothing to look after the needs of the capital of the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association, the Japanese. But Siam will never be re- the wonderful ignorance which prevails even 5.8. Apenrade in a Gale.

inust be many a miserable night when the to fear. In the first place Manila is a clean cognised as a country dominated and amongst those who are otherwise deemed to doors are-locked and the head of the house town; and besides that the health author- governed by men of modern views so long be educated, regarding the position of Great hold begins to worry out ways and means toties at Hongkong have established what is as the people are allowed to wallow in the Britain's Far Eastern possessions. No doubtsteer clear of the bailiff's clutches. What considered a modern, scientific and specific depths of disease, resulting from the lack of many having correspondence with the home such people think within themselves when quarantine against departures from Hong- ordinary sanitary provisions. Bangkok country have received lettere addressed they read that the theatre was crowded with kong." It would be unfair to suggest that may become the Mentone of the Orient, but

"Hongkong, India," while it is on record a fashionable audience to witness an en-

The worthy Doctor was contrasting Manila that day, despite the rose-coloured views of that during the war Hongkong was frequent trancing play, or that a fancy dress ball al- with Hongkong when he said that the former enthusiastic residents, will not arrive untilly believed to be an integral portion of tracted hundreds of Hongkong's bewitching "is a clean town." For what city could be the first principles of hygiene are observed Japan. But these slips may have been dutely best, it would; not be good to inquire. cleaner than Hongkang, washed by number and an adequate and reliable system of to some temporary aberration to which we Little wonder that misanthropy exists. The lessstreams which flow downthehill-sides and, waterworks installed.

have no clue. The numerous appeals to underpaid Government clerk and the highly as the Director of Public Works will tell us, take shares in fotteries which are to be respectable civilian both-come under the evade the reservoirs? Dr. Heiser went on With a view of suppressing the riots A FAVOUR 10 CHINESE. held under the Governments of Austria, same category. There is this difference, to state that: "The quarantine officials at Japanese troops have been despatch-

Germany and Holland greatly help to however, between the two classes: the longkong have secured an old sailing vesseled to the scent of the disturbance. In many jespects the policy followed by swell the contents of the waste paper basket. Government clerk is usually a fixture in the in which all Chinese contemplating to sail the United States Government under the But one of the most amusing com Colony; the civilian, who is not burdened for Manila are taken and properly inspected Chinese Exclusion Act coincides with the munications we have received for some time with family ties, can do what is eu and fumigated before being allowed to clear anitude adopted by the Government of the arrived to-day from London. It was a bulky phemistically described as a "vanishing from the port. The method is believed to Australian Commonwealth. Both countries envelope and contained several printed act Even when a family man, the, fur- be an improvement over the old method of manifested the strongest objection to the sheets of superfine paper. The inside pages eigner is generally able to disappear to holding passengers at this end of the journey immigration of Chinese and passed laws were blank, so that they may come in handy pastures new. That is Hongkung, but the for a number of days before allowing them which had the effect of regulating the en

on some future occasion. The first sheet sanguine writer in our Singapore contem at land." So that Manila need have no trance of Chinese undesirables. But while bore, in beautifully large type, the heading pority finds it difficult to express in language fear of plague. It would be a blessing if all America occasionally allowed, unsuspecting. The London Musical Club," In case fit for the occasion the glories of the Orient. The coolies coming from Canton to Hong ly, Chinese immigrants, against whom the

Proceeding to denounce those who say they kong enjoyed the same health-preserving law had been framed, to land, Australia

cannot find houses at reats commensurate Treatment. But the point of the interview imposed tests of such a severe character

with their incomes be remarks:-"It is by is the praise meted out to the Health Author. that the Chinese coolies were effectually

no means difficult to obtain very comfortable ties here which, in this case, does not mean stopped at the gateway of the Common

dwellings, in healthy positions and at reason- wealth, and further required the payment of

able rentals, though (terrible drawback) Fumigating Bureau, a private enterprise the Sanitary Board but the Disinfecting and of a poll-tax of about $1,000, even after the

away perhaps from the fashionable quarter which meets the requirements of the Anteris preliminary requirements had been met. presence of the hon, secretary or hon. trea which the soul of your correspondent ap- ean Government officials in this Colony, The great opposition of the Chinese to the surer of the Club. The members will be parently yearns for." Then he criticises Vel probably the Sanitary officials will also operation of the American Exclusion Act waiting for hint with outstretched arms. those who waste their incomes on sensual take some kudos for the work of this Bureau, was the manner in which its provisions were Well, this circular or pamphlet or perhaps pleasures, who favour the chit" system, and now we may expect to see them with carried into effect. They maintained that it should be called a brochure is not issued and whose life for a short spell is a delirious swelling chests and heavenward gaze pur Chinese gentlemen and officials were sub-without an object. The London Musical round of gaiety. There he is on safer ground, suing those duties which have earned for their jected to gross indignities, treated as coolies, Club is or was appalled at the magnitude of although there are not many who will agree confrires the encomiums of the authority in and humiliated to a degree that was intoler the San Francisco disaster, so it determined with hit that a man of moderate means needs Manila, scornfully ignoring the ridicule, or able. But all that is ancient history the to give a concert in aid of the relief funds, no relaxation after the worries of the day, abuse which may spring from the vulgar boycott of American goods was the result. Not a sacred concert, but an ordinary" sing beyond the companionship of a book and the rabble, have been equally averse to the admission The tickets are stated to cost one guinea On the contrary, it is generally agreed that of Chinese and have proclaimed their inten-cach. This was all very well until one read the conditions of life in the, East, so vastly tion of retaining a white Australia," the that the concert was, to take place on different from those at home, demand an operation of the laws governing the entrance 3rd May more than three weeks ago! occasional departure from the dull grind of of Chinese has been, apparently, carried out Seeing that we have still to rely on ordinary labour, and the worst of it is that such an in a manner which did not offend the sus steamers for our mails, and not a patent, outbreak" is confined to very limited ceptibilities of the immigrants. At any rate, turbine twisted, gold-embossed, Santos-Du- channels of enjoyment. It is to a great ex- there has been no suggestion that Australian mont-et-Maximised seroplane, travelling at tent a matter of temperament, of course, in goods should be placed in the same category the rate of five thousand leagues a what manner that pleasure is taken; the as American products, a fact which has operat day, the idea of sending out invita curious thing is that those who were staidest in a colder time develop traits altogether opposite to their usual characteristics when transplanted to the enervating atmosphere of the tropics. This correspondent to whom

Popular Policeman Retires.

*Decoration Day."

Fatal Accident.

Property Sale.

Macao Lotteries.

Canton Notes,

Canton-Hankow Railway.

Amoy Notes:

Stranded Vessels near Foochow.

The Loksang Inquiry,

The Shanghai Chess Championship. Shanghai Chinese Volunteers.

A Serious Fracas.

The Control of the Customs.

The Stranding of the Roon.

The Late Mr. Thomas Cowen.

Kobe, Young Ladies Arrest a Notorious

Burglar,

The Projected Kawasaki Dackyard at Shang-

hai.

Demonetised, Dollars in Singapore. Straits Chinese,

The Pacific Trade.

A Docking Feat.

Local and General. Commercial-

Yarn Market. Exchange. Opium.

BIRTHS.

At Shanghai, on the 24th of May, Mrs. RICHARD KURSCHE, of a daughter, Prematurely; On the 27th May at Shanghai, the wife of

GEORGE W. NOEL, of a daughter,

MARRIAGES.

On the 28th April, at Seattle, U.S.A. VESTA, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D. to NORMAN THORPE SAUNDERS of Shanghai. On the 23rd May, at Shanghai, MARGUERITE EMMA PIETZSCH to JOHN VINCENT CHAMPI

·NEYS DAVIS,

DEATH.

On the 20th May, at Shanghai, JENNY ADLER, the beloved wife of E: Adler, aged 27.

people in Hongkong may never have licard bf the L.M.C. we will quote the direc- ons how to get there; it is 125 yards behind the British Museum (Tube) Station." Nothing could be more precise. Two hops, a skip and a large jump, and the visitor will, bounce into the

The Hongkong Gelegraph hough the hustralian Commonwealth song," and no cuention of a dance to follow. contemplation of his own sublime happiness.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1906.

DISEASE IN BANGKOK.

(28th May.)

Some time ago, considerable amusement was afforded those who claim to have some ed to the advantage of Australia during the ions which would arrive three weeks acquaintance with the health conditions of heat of the boycott. It has been felt, how after date of the performance is de Bangkok by the announcement made in a. ever, that there were reasons why the exclucidedly rich. But what a loss is that sus Bangkok journal that because the thermome- sion Ordinances in force in the Common- tained by the citizens of Hongkong. For ter had fallen to 65 or 70 degrees Falten wealth should be somewhat relaxed in favour one guinea they might have sat next the we have referred holds that the standard of heit the capital of Siam was one of the of the Chinese traveller, official and Inerchant. Lord Mayor of London, or a, Sheriff, or, per living in the Far East is lower to-day than healthiest spots in the Far East. The writer Seeing that Great Britain had entered into an haps, even an Alderman. The experience it was 25 years ago, but that only seems to even gravely suggested that in time Bangkok offensive and defensive treaty with Japan, it would have lasted them for the rest of their prove that money is tighter and ordinary would become the winter resort of the malaria-stricken, jaundiced, and effete mer.

was urged that certain privileges should be lives. They could have brought their grands expenses greater. However, he states for granted our Japanese › allies. chants of Hongkong and Singapore. With

Downing children up to respect them, for it is not the information of those about to mairy that Street exerted pressure on the Government everybody who can hab-nob with Turtledom, all they need is a little common-sense and its marvellous climate, its wonderful system of the Commonwealth and secured, after And only a guinea to hear the London Musi moral courage and they may live out here of canals which, in far-off days-probably in much trouble, certain minor concessions for cal Club Of course, there are captious pico very comfortably on a "very modest income." the time of Sir John Mandeville or Baron Japanese subjects, other than those of the ple who might have wished to see the list Why then should we grumble, when instead Munchasen-earned for Bangkok the title coolie or labouring classes. But the Com. of performers, but the concert was not for of toiling and moiling in Hongkong to pay of the Venice of the East, its delightful in-monwealth has as much respect for the such as they; it was intended for the bon the landlord his rent we can fit to Singapore Chinese as for the Japanese, and it was ton, the elite of the City, for those who weep and live like fighting-cocks on a few cents a recognised that any concessions granted to with Alexander because there are no new day? The song says that "a costented the one should be extended to the other. honours to acquire. To preserve its ex mind is a purce well-lined"; the difficulty for the average man and household in Hong kong is to reach the blessed, state of enjoy fog a contented mind.

habitants and so forth, Bangkok was held out as an ideal land for those who wished to recuperate after their dreary labours in British colonies. Not a word was said about the lack of a water supply, the absence

A few days ago we were enabled to publish clusiveness the concert was held at 3 o'clock exclusively, on the authority of Mr. Frederick in the afternoon; let us pray it was success of first class hotels, the prevalence of choleraJones, the Trade Commissioner on behalf of ful, and that everybody was delighted-even

THE KIANGSI RIO78.

RIOTS IN KOREA,

DESPATCH OF JAPANESE TROOPS.

{From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th May,"

12.30 p.m. Disturbances are reported to live taken place in South Korea.

JAPANESE ATTACKED BY “VOLUNTEERS." A Seoul telegram to the Mainichi states that an encounter took place on the morning of the 21st between the so-called "Volunteers" and Japanese policemen and gendarmes at Ponjiu; ? Chunchoado, with the result that a Japanese gendarme was wounded. The rioters Dum leled about three hundred. · Remorcements of police were subsequently sent to ine neighe- bourbood. Gendarmes have also been scat to Kyongsangdu, where a number of "Volun leera" have assembled. At the ast-mentioned

place two Japanese were attacked on the 18th

inst, one of them being killed and the other

severely injured,

..

fats tuy 22, the rioters at Chunchoudo, who numbered about thres hundred, attaked Bong jyú on the morning of the 19th, and compelled The post office officials to retire to Yousan. On the morning of the 20th once Superintendent constables and shots were exchanged with the iwata arrived on the scene with a number of,

rioters. The latter, however, showed a deter- mized frost, and il has bech tound necessary. to summon gendarmes (rom Kunsan, Kong-jyu and Syoun. The disturbances have caused an interruption in the postal service.—Kobe Herald,

S.S. “SIBERIA" QUARAN.

TINED.

.SUSPECTED PLAGUE ABOARD.. [From Our Own Correspondent.],

According to á later Sconl message, bearing

Shanghai, 30th May, 12.30 p.m. The Pacific Mail S. S. Cor's 8.8. Siberia has been detained at Yoko- huma:

is put down to a suspected case of The cause of the liner's detention

plague on board the Siberia,

ANOTHER REBELLION.

The news, which was telegraphed, from Shanghai yesterday, that disturbances had broken out in Kiangsi on accbúnt of the dearness of foodstuffs in that province, might have been expected from native reports from the North published in Shanghai. In a recent number of the N. C.D. Neses in- dications that trouble was brewing might have been gathered from the following ex- cerpt which we take from the columns of our Northern contemporary: "As a result of the dissatisfaction among the natives of this district on account of the abnormal price of their staple food-rice-a dissatis- faction shown in other places by raids on grainboats and the riot at Hangchow, the local mandarins issued proclamation in the native city forbidding owners of rice and cereal shops to keep up their presont high | THE "SNIPE" GOES TO NANCILANG) prices on pain of having their stores con- fiscated by Government. The prompt [From Our Own Correspondent.] district magistrate was expected to do measures thus taken by the Taotai 'and

much to allay the excitement in Shang: hai, and avert a crisis." The despatchy of Chinese troops and the appearance/of the British gunboat Snips at Nanghang Yungshan. following the first signs of a riotous outbreak may have the effect of curling the spirit of rowdyism which has brought Kiangai, left for Nanchang,

Shanghai, 31st May,

11.40 m. Arebellion has broken out at

H.M. river gun-boat