August 7, 1895.]
Owing to an accident to the propeller shaft the departure of the Bisagno for Bombay has been delayed. She will go into dock for repairs. A boat race between a crew of the Royal Artillery and a crow of the Rif Brigade was decided on Monday. The Royal Artillery won by about half a length after a very exciting rats.
The British Consul at Batavia has sent to the Hongkong Government the following extract from a communication received by him from the :-"A Governor-General of Netherlands India :- Pasteur Institute has been opened here at Wel- tevreden, in which free medical treatment may be obtained by those suffering from hydrophobia consequent upon the bite of a mad dog; not only the inhabitants of this colony, but also those of foreign colonies who care to nudergo it."
The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st July, 1895, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, are published :-
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India,
Average Amount.
$
Australia, and China 1.
1,322,060
Hongkong
and Shanghai
Banking Corporation
1,845,559
National Bank of China, Ld. 363,606
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Specie in
Roserve.
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1,000,000 2,500,00
201,500
$6,531,225 $3,704,000 Another bit of smart work has been performed by our local Dock Company. The N.D. steamer Preussen, of 5,615 tons register, was put into the No. 1 dock at Kowloon on Thurs day night, the 1st inst., at 7.30, the vessel's bottom thoroughly cleaned and two coats of Rahtjen's patient composition put on from load line to keel, and the vessel fated ready for un- docking at 3 p.m. on the 2nd inst., or La Lours from the time the vessel was in dock until she was afoat and ready to go out again. This we think will bear favourable comparison with any part of the world. The Preussen sailed at 5 p.m. on Friday for Shanghai.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
CHUNGKING.
12th July.
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with blue glasses, official cap, high boots, etc., was bidden to descend only at kungkuan, not at His cortège made such an effect as almost to provoke a tumult at his quiet station. after all he had a fair moustache which it would seem as if he might have dyed, who the officials were taking such pains to make him pass mus ter as a Chinaman.
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Today we hear the yamen is petitioning the Emperor to let the notai remain here, so we hope he may, for it was rather crashing to hoar that he, who has done all in his power to main. tain order here, was summoned to Poking, while Chongtu was once again placarded with hosteli Yet ought we to disguise ourselves, if announcements. The Viceroy is about to come uccesssary, in the west of China. Has it from there here and we wonder who may not come that P The Chinese have made follow in his train. The examinations will now pleuty of English and American men take place in another fortnight, Can it really women and children run before them in be true, as we are told, that 20,000 young men will compete? If so, what may we not expect ? It will certainly be a relief to us as well as to them when these young men have been examined and gone home. Already, however, some of the missionaries say Chinese are coming to their guest rooms and dispensary as usual, and the ouly inconvenience we are conscious of is that people will not work for us, or sell to us, unless they see our mony first. They say we are go- ing to be driven out, and then they will never get paid. There is another inconvenience-con- stunt alarms about robbers and bad characters who seem to be reconnoitring our abode very thoroughly.
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the last mouth aud a half. And the more they make run the more natural they must think it to make us do so. What puzzles us is, it began a month and a half ago, and we do not yet hear of anything being done to make us safer. One still has to depend upon one's own revolver, or one's own hiding, or running powers. If only a party of bluejackets or half-a-dozen marines from H.M S. Esk could come here, or even he talked of as coming, we should not feel so mean; if we could ever hear that any Power had demanded the head of everyone knows who. As it is, no one has been the chief offender.
de of his boat, and hung on underneath whilst killed yet, though the man who got over the Some more fugitives have arrived here, Dr. armed men prodded for him with long spears and Mrs. Squire, and Miss Hol from Kiating, seems to have been in some danger. But can
rioters (?) be kept SO well in. all of the China Iulaud Mission. The former auy were away in the country when the trouble hand, that life will remain sife, if this commenced. Some one told them they must state of things continues ? There is many a get home, or they would be killed, and before | Church missionary in a lonely out-station, who ty started in their boat they saw some twenty seems to me to need our prayers just now. men along the banks of the river evidently trifle, a mere nothing,, might rouso the people with hostile intent. Arrived at Kiating they asked against him and his wife. Probably over here their captain to take them to the most convenient we all feel obliged to be more conciliatory than gate for their mission premises, not having usual, and when in the country we send out an idea the rest of the mission were no longer invitations to diuuor, wo add "Bring a gua There. Arrived there the captain ordered thom with you, please," yet with no thought of game.
ashöre This they wished to do, but were surprised to be ordered. One of the men on the bat had made them feel uncomfortable from the We hear that Mr. Xavier, a native of Macao first because he had silken trousers, and alto but a Franchman by naturalisation, who has been
Now on interpréter to the French Consulate at Canton gether seemed above being a boatmin. for a year or two and for one year acted as Vice-oking outside the cabin they saw him before the door not only with his silk trousers, Consul, has recently been appointed to the
but with a drawn sword in his hand. How Consular Service on the Tonkin frontier. Just
Finding a before he left for Tonkin a telegram was received ever, he did not use it. to hurry him down, to join the commission for hustile crowd they tried to gain a refuge at the likin station, but only to be refused. Then the unfortunato man taking his child in his arms, and bis wife by the hand, they ran for We do not bear that the it through the mob. People nearly tore him in two as they did another much respected member of his Mission, catching bold of both ends of bis girdle. But it was ruu- wing the gauntlet till the whole mission station found themselves happily together in the yamon, where the others yet remain, very well treated,
the delimitation of the new frontier. He is a
useful man for the service, speaking as he does English, French, Annamite, and several dialects of Chinese, including laudarin, aud reading and writing Chinese also. He was all through the Tonkin war of 1884-5 and has received numerous decorations from the French Government.
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but still unable to return to their home.
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The most amusing thing is the way we all forecast our riot. The Customs have decided it is to occur after office hours, at least with sufficient notice to allow them to make a for y minutes' chair journey from their office to the Commissioner's house, which alone they mean to defend. The outdoor staff to in their chiefs must have at least half an hour additional to cross the Yangtze, then right across the city to its most distant upper corner to the Commissioner's. The onsul is to make a twenty minutes' journey to the same removed point. They especially do not invite women and chil- dren to join them there. So meanwhile these latter will be making their way under the escort of their men relations, if they have any, to the T'aotai's yamen rather near the abandoned However determined the hardy Customs office. combatants may be, it seems to me if they thus cross the other set and see fellow country women and children being hustled by an infuriated mob they must pause to defend them, instead of mak- ing their way to the predestined point, while it seems hard to imagine any mob waiting till pre- cisely a quarter before five-when they would naturally be thera-in order to attack. In like manner even those missionary ladies, 'who, having engaged a boat when everyone was leaving the place, had kept it on to have it ready, and thus
The small steamer Ningpo has been lying idle at Canton since her return from her attempt to take supplies of ammunition to the Black Flags in Formosa. It seems she has been taken
The lady's is a pleasanter story. She and two over entirely from her original owners and the other ladies found their house attacked, and official having charge of her is thinking of ruu- ning her with pissengers and cargo between again a man with a drawn sword, one of the rioters He brandished it, then stooping down, Canton and Suitung (a place on the West Coast, a little to the west ward of St. John's Island). proceeded to sharpen it on the flat stone in font of their house, calling out to the rioters that calling at some of the larger towns en route About half the trip cau
be taken vil the these were good women, and that he he with his sword-forbade them to touch them. At last numerous branch s of the West River and the crowd fell back sufficiently for one of the escape the trials of refuging in a yameu, may then there is sheltered run inside of
ladies to venture out with her Chinese woman, -if there be a riot-aud a goneral sauve qui the islands for about half of the coast journey and go to the yamen. but only to be refused peut, easily find themselves disappointed, and There is already a large junk towed by a steam admission, on which the Chinese woman, who that their boat has mistaken some other launch running on this route, She has been
knew that rulers are the fathers of their people, foreigners for themselves. Yet what better ou the run for a year or two and unlike all other junks towing out of Canton she and every yainen a ref ge, raised up a loud cry. is a regular sea going craft. As the trip is a
ing, saying they would not go away, but would die there at the gates, if not admitted. Eo át long one, occupying about ten days there and
last they gained au entrance, and found the poor back, the junk carries for the use of the launc' a quantity of coal, which may be seen on her official inside, too trembling with fear to sond However, the man with the deck when leaving Canton. No doubt the help to the others Ningpo would do well on the run, but she would, sword was not done yet, he not only got chairs we believe, run nominally as a Government des for the other two ladies, but when the chair patch boat. The ammunition which was landed coolics proceeded to ask exorbitant fares he seems to have bargained with them. The most at Canton from the Ningpo after her failure to take it to Formosa was sent on to Foochow some amusing escapes however, are of the man who, weeks ago by the last gunboat which brought sion in a doctor's house, was, wrapped up in a having taken refuge from his owu burning mis- down disbanded troops from there. Possibly it was intended to be shipped to Formosa by junks Chinese hood, supported on the shoulders of two
men to the doctor's door, and there as a dying The British barque Atlantic, which was on a from that part of the coast.
mam confided to the tender care of the chair voyage to Newchwang, put into Shanghai on the coolies to guard against any breath of air 25th July in distress, baving been on the rocks penetrating within his curtains until they at Shaweishan. When she arrived in port she could deliver the poor invalid at the yamên; was making water at the rate of four inches and or that of the other who, after his eleven days' a half an hour. detention, having a five days' journey to make The Asahi Shimbun reports that the N.Y.K to his lonely out-station, and his probably lost over 130,000 yeu ou the Bambay line las most auxious wife, was disguised as an official year. In spite of the steady increase in demand going out to meet the incoming Viceroy, and for cotton in Japan the Company is described as
Messrs. Kanazawa Nisaku and Yamanobe Takeo of the Ilirano and Osaka Cotton Mills respectively are reported to have been elected as delegates to proceed to China and investigate all matters relating to the proposed cotton mill near Shanghai.
can we all do under the very peculiar circum. stances of the port in which no provision what- ever for the safety of the residents has even been allowed to be made by Government ? Sir John Walsham said the time for concessions was gone by. If a Minister could even undertake the many chances of a journey here he would pro- bably come to a very different opinion. Meau. while we all have Chinese clothes handy-to escape in if necessary.-N. C. Daily News cor- respondent.
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