CANTON NOIES.
FROM THE CHUNG NGỦI BAN PO." Rumour has been current in Canton to the effect that a Chinese gunboat which was des- patched to the prefecture of Lim-chow with a civil officer and his family and servants, con- sisting of about thirty persons, foundered during the late typhoon on the 29th ultimo near Yam- chow. A telegram has been sent from Canton to Lim-chow to make inquiries, but no reply has been received as yet. It is feared that the gunboat has been totally last and that all on board have been drowned.
Every indication exists that silk this year will be very dear, for most of the mulberry trees in Sai-chiu district, where the silk-worm culti vation is chiefly carried on, have been damaged by insects, which the farmers tried to catch, but as the insects were so numerous, human hands could do very little. In addition to this. a great number of mulberry trees were destroyed by the late typhoon.
The flower-boats have been driven away by the Government and their anchorages are now uncertain. The cause is that a Ku-jen, a man bearing a title of the second degree, who was invited some days ago by some friends to the flower-boats to partake of a feast, was drowned. The friends of the deceased have petitioned the Government to the effect that the death of the Ku-jeu 'was caused by the existence of the *flower-boats, which obstructed the fairway.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The typhoon of the 29th ultimo was severely felt at Ha-sa, in Heungshan district. About seventy houses were destroyed. About fifty persons working in the fields were drowned owing to a sudden rise of the tide.
Owing to the late typhoon and the heavy rain the rivers in Haukshan district were flooded and some dykes were broken. Over one thousand houses were washed away and about sixty per- sons were drowned.
On the 12th inst. fourteen criminals from the Nam-hoi prison and nine from the Pun-u prison were carried in baskets to the Tin-tsz-ma- tau for decapitation. They were all notorious
robbers.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The steamer Invertay has been purchased by the Nippon Shosen Kaisha, of Tokyo, and re-named the Bushiu-maru,
The Kintoan light vessel was, at date of our latest Shanghai advices, out of position in con- sequence of collision, but it was not known with what ship.
The Mercury says:
-We hear H.E. Chang Chih-tung is going to extend his cotton mill enterprise to Shanghai: another mill will be established here in conjunction with the Hapeh
concern.
A San Francisco paper of 21st July says:-- The Doric, which sails for China to-day, will take the largest cargo of flour ever shipped out of a Pacific Coast port-3,500 tons. Most of it .goes to China.
The Mexican cruiser Zaragoza arrived at Yokohama on the 2nd August. She is making a tour of the world. She is commanded by Admiral Monasterio and has a large number of naval cadets on board.
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The typhoon of which we felt the influence here on the 9th August reached Tonkin on the 10th and blew with great violence, consider able damage being done at Hanoi. The electric light wires were broken and the streets were left in darkness in the evening.
In the Fleet Regatta at Hakodate we under- stand that the Undaunted captured most of the first prizes, while the Pique's galley also did well, proving a surprise to the Fleet. The events for All Comers were as usual won by the Admiral's boat (Centurion).-Japan Gazette.
We regret to learn from the N. C. Daily News that Captain McEuen, who left Shanghai on the 25th of July by the Empress of Japan ressel reached Yokohama that he had to be left on sick leave, was so much worse when the behind there, and was taken to the hospital.
We (Peking and Tientsin Times) hear that the Railway Company contemplate laying a double line of rails between Tongku and Tientsin at an early date. The passenger and goods traffic is increasing to such an extant that this accommodation will not come any too
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The materials for the railway to Peking are beginning to arrive at Taku, and there are now two ships from America with Oregon timber, one ship with cement and locomotives, and a large steamer with rails. Until the close of the year there should be constant arrivals at the Bar of large vessels containing rails, bridge work, &c.-Peking and Tientsin. Times.
A report from the civil officials in Formosa on the recent risings of the rebels in the vicinity of Unrin state, according to a Tokyo press des patch, that when the rebels advanced some of the soldiers were dismayed and took to their heels without exchanging a shot. The Govern ment proposes to institute an inquiry by court martial into this alleged cowardly conduct.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 7th August says:-- -The authorities of the Governor- General's office of Formosa will shortly issue Regulations relating to the opium trade in Formosa, under which persons selling opium without first obtaining a licence, and those who shall sell opium or pipes, &c., for the smoking of opium to persons having no medical certifi- cate, or shall lend a room for smoking to such persons, shall be subjected to heavy punishment. The Japan Gazette says:-Mr. Oshima, Su- perintending Engineer of the Iron Foundry, and two experts will be shortly despatched to America and Europe on a tour of official in- spection. They are first to go to America and then to England, Germany, France and other European countries, where they will make thorough inspections of iron foundries. They are also entrusted with the purchase of neces sary machinery for the Japanese Foundry and their journey is expected to take about twelve months.
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The high provincial authorities of Kwantung and Fukien have recently been very active in arresting counterfeiters of Mexican dollars and Chinese decimal coins. Over a dozen were lately arrested near Canton with their plant and dies-some made abroad-and will probably be summarily dealt with. Five of the same class were arrested near Amoy by the military police. This last arrest is said to have been made at the instance of the Netherlands and Spanish The Customs cruiser Dolphin, which was at Ministers at Peking, who complained of the large Lea in the same storia that the Iltis was lost in quantities of counterfeit dollars brought into cir- and regarding which some uneasiness was felt, culation in Java and the Philippine Islands by returned to Chefoo all safe and sound and no Chinese from Amoy.-N. C. Daily News. worse for her experiences.
Among the passengers who arrived on the The of native opium in Northern steamer China, says
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the San Francisco Anbwai is a very bad one this year, both as Chronicle, is Arthur J. Mundy, manager of the regards quantity and quality. The total output J. B. Millet Publishing Company of Boston, js estimated at about one-half of last year's who has been in Japan for some time past, production and the quality is much inferior arranging for the publication of a new il- Mercury.
lustrated work on Japan. The work is to be entirely by Japanese writers and artists, and will be edited by Captain F. Brinkley, editor of the Japan Mail. The first edition will be will be limited to fifty sets of ten volumes sold by subscription, and each at $500 & volume, or $5,000 a set. Each volume is to be illustrated with 250 large coloured photographs and many original paint ings on silk, which will be embellished with lacquer work and lace embroidery. Mr. Mundy says the work will be the most elaborate and artistic publication of the kind ever issued.
The new war-ships Fujiyama and Yashima are expected to arrive in Japan not later than April next. The officers and men commissioned to bring out the Yashima from England-were to leave Yokohama by the Ryojun-maru on the 7th August.
The N.Y.K. Toyoshima-maru recently sank a small Chinese vessel in Wladivostock harbour and caused the loss of three lives. The Russian Admiralty Court has ordered the Company to pay 20,CCO roubles to the families of each of those drowned. Nagasaki Express.
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August 19-1896.
four soldiers, belonging police battalion, were kille When the military police, orders of the district magist the scene of the fight to put turbance, the rival partisans, in the meanwhile succeeded their own number, joined hands to resi troops, who, being in the minority, or from the contest with the casualties note The porcelain works of this district, near the south end of the Poyang Lake, nearly 10,000 potters.-N. C. Daily News.
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It is reported amongst the Chinese in Soo- chow that a Japanese Steam Launch Company has been organised to run between Shanghai and the new Treaty ports of Soochow and Hangehow and that the permisson of the Tsangli Yamen has also been obtained in the matter; steam launch licences to be issued by the 1.M. Customs of Shanghai. The new Company's steam launches are to come from Japan and will number twelve Another despatch reports the destruction by fire on the 8th instant of one of the largest brick kilns of the city situated outside the Fêng gate Soo- chow. The brick company in question had con tracted to supply nearly half-a-million bricks for the new foreign settlements, and this con- flagration will doubtless retard building opera tions there for a while.-N. C. Daily News
The San Francisco Chronicle of the 21st:
July says:-The Pacific mail steamship China arrived early yesterday morning a day ahead a of her time, breaking the record from Hong- kong, Yokohama, and Honolulu. She left Hongkong June 25th, Yokohama July 4th, and Honolulu July 13th. Her time was :- From Hongkong 24 days, 7 hours, and 6 minutes from Yokohama, 15 days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes; from Honolulu, 5 days, 11 hours, and 11 minutes.. The time from Honolulu breaks her own record made on her last trij but one by nearly three hours. The time made on this trip created a sensation in marine and shipping circles, and Captain Seabury received many congratulations. The time from Hono lulu is pretty nearly equal to the performances of the best transatlantic liners.
from the Jiji: The greater portion of the The Japan Gazette translates the following
task of Treaty Revision is now completed. › The new treaties with Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, and the United States have been signed or ratified, and- those with France and the Netherlands are y expected to be signed shortly. The only Powers with which new treaties have not yet been concluded are Austria, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. In Austria, Minister Takahira is conducting the negotiations without meeting with any difficulty. As to Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal, negotiations have not yet been opened, but will soon commence and
may be concluded before the end of the year.
As the new tariff is enforcible immediately on the revision- of the treaties with all the Treaty Powers, the authorities are said to be in a great hurry now-
The Kobe Chronicle says:—A vernacular con- temporary learns that the P. & O. Company have applied to the Japanese Government for permission to open a steamship service between Kobe, Nagasaki, Kelung, and Hongkong, but the Japanese authorities thought it inexpedient to leave the service in question to foreign company, and declined the application Und the circumstances, the Japanese Gore is prepared to urge Japanese shi open the navigation to the island without further delay. This is just what we com a suicidal policy on the part of the Government. They should end of every sort in Formosa, inste because Japanese are not able to
mission can be needed for any As a matter of fact, we cannot see to go to Kelung, which must remain so the sto but it indicates what the Government is resolved schemes for develop issuing loan bónd
do much better by removing
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