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likely that the redoubtable and gallant Lord Charles Beresford will visit the place, and they will surely have a good many ideas and sugges. tions free, gratis, and for nothing on his return home, as to what to do with Weihaiwei.-N. C. Daily News correspondent.
CANTON NOTES.
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[FROM THE CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.”] On the 14th inst. the Governor handed over his seal to the Viceroy. His Excellency will leave Canton on the 19th inst. for his native place in the province of Kiangsi. It is said that His Excellency has made up his mind to retire from active service and spend the rest of his life in retirement. The Viceroy will remove to the yamen hitherto occupied by the Governor, which is more magnificent than his own. It is said that the Viceroy's gamen will now be used as a free Goverument College.
Some talk has again arisen as to carrying on the reclamation work on the river bund. A Sansz has petitioned the Viceroy asking to be allowed to go on with the undertaking. The Viceroy consulted the directors of Kwang-Chai Hospital on the application and a meeting was held in the Hospital on the 6th inst. It was decided to carry on the work, the expenses of the reclamation to be borne by the owners of the water frontage.
The Canton Government has received in- structions from the Throne to the effect that in order to economise the expenses of the Government a good number of petty military officers are to be discharged, that the pay of the soldiers is to be cut down by the 15th October, and that twenty per cent of the forces are to be disbanded by the 14th November. Volunteer forces are to be organised for the public pro- tection.
News has been received from Kwangsi that the rebel leader Li Lop-ting, for whose capture a reward of five thousand dollars has been offered by the authorities, is now hiding with a number of his followers in the mountain Ng-ma-shan. The Governor of Kwangsi has sent General Sou with a number of soldiers to effect his capture. It is said that over two thousand retreating rebels, some of them females, were lately killed by the soldiers under the command of General Sou while on their way to Ng-ma- shan.
It has become known to the Customs officers that some steam launches owned by Chinese are flying flags of foreign Powers in order to evade taxation. The Customs officers and the likin people are now on the alert to discover this cunning design and to effect the arrest of the Bolcalled foreign-owned launches.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
While H.M.S. Blenheim was lying off Stanley on Tuesday afternoon, one of the blue-jackets went over the side on a bowline. When in the water he was seen to throw up his hands and to sink at once, never again coming to the surface.
A singular accident took place on the Praya the other morning. A meat van in charge of two men was proceeding along close to the wall when a wheel came off and the van was dashed on to a junk, which was to some extent damaged. One of the men in charge was also burt and had to be taken to the Hospital.
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The maximum temperature last month 90.4, on the 30th, and the minimum 74.7, on the 14th. The means for the mouth are above those of the ten years average. The mean maximum was 86.5, as against 85.8 for ten years, the mean minimum 78, as against 77.1, and the mean for the whole month 81.5, as against 80.9. The rain. fall amounted to 9,9 inches.
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Mr. W. C. Jack, of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, left for Mauila on Saturday in the Esmeralda for the purpose of reporting on the possibility of raising some of the Spanish vessels.
Weng Tung-ho, ex-Imperial Tutor, etc., ar- rived at Shanghai from his native city of Changshu, some forty miles distant from Soo- chow, on the 5th September incog, and left the same night by the steamer Kiangkwan for Nanking.
At Shanghai on the 6th September a large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled at Mossrs. Boyd & Co.'s works to witness the launch of two vessels, built to the order of the Eastern Railway Company, for service at Talienwan. The first of the two to be launched was a tug, named Talienwan, which was christened as she left the ways by Miss Wehrung. This craft, which is Captain Setz, four officers and a boatswain, intended for towing purposes in the Bay, is a of the German wrecked steamer Cosmopolit, steel vessel of 65 feet length, 14 feet beam, and arrived at Nagasaki ou the 4th September from 8 feet 9in. moulded depth. Her engines are of the Vladivostock. It will be remembered that a compound surface condensing type, with cylin telegraphic despatch to the owners at Hong-ders of 12 and 24 inches diameter, with a stroke kong announced the total loss of the vessel off of 16 inches. Steam is supplied by a single Saghalien. We now learn that the Cosmopolit boiler, carrying a steam pressure of 100 lbs. on stranded on Cape Houda, off the south coast of the square inch. The other vessel, which was Saghalien and to the north of Cape Aniwa, and christened the Lasian by the little daughter of that the crew, passengers, aud cargo were saved. M. and Mdme. Dmitrevsky, is a lighter, one of Among the passengers were General Subovitch, four building by Messrs. Boyd and Co. for the Russian Governor of the Maritime Districts, same owners, of a carrying capacity of 500 tons his wife, and staff. A Russian man-of war and on a mean draft of 8 feet. After the launch the German craiser Deutschland rendered valuable assistance to the ship. Captain Setz has entered a protest at the local German Con- sulate and a marine court of inquiry will be held,
-Nagasaki Press,
The following returns of the average amount of Bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st August, as certified by the managers of the respective Bauks, are published :-
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China...... Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, National Bank of China, Limited.
Average Amount.
$2,917,693
Specie in Reserve.
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the party adjourned to the messroom of the works, where the usual toasts were honoured.— N. C. Daily News.
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COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
SHASGHAT. 10th September.-(From Messrs. Weleb, Lewis & C3. a Circular.)-Our last printed" Tea market advices were under date 29th ultime, London deliveries of China Con- grou for August were 1,960, 00 lbs., and the Stock is 9,250,000 lbs. We have recived a telegram from R. B. Moorhead, Eq.. Commissioner of $2,000,000 || Customs at Haukow, reading: "Viceroy agrees
to Foreigners entering Tea Company." We await details by letter. Back Tea.-There is a 8,747,676 3,000,000 desire to buy if suitable qualities could be obtain. el, but Russian demand at Hankow absorbs all +44,905 150,000
available supplies of Oophe's and Onan Teas at prices which would be unob airable on this Ma ket. Total
$9,109,674 $5,150,000
A small business is passing in Kiu- kiang distrist Teas at fully former rates. l'he The Roman Catholic Cathedral, which from its size and position should show up most
total export to Great Britain promises to be under 9 millions, and to the Baited States and prominently from the harbour, is now, in con- Canada under 5 million pounds. sequence of its incomplete condition, far from being the conspicuous building it was intended to be.
The design of the sacred edifice is, however, we bear, about to be completed by the erection of the eastern tower, which will be surmounted by a lofty spire. A handsome new entrance porch at the east end will also be added. | Copacks...... The central tower will be raised considerably There were 2,175 visitors to the City Hall and surmounted by ornamental turrets, which Museum last week, of whom 206 were Europeans. will add greatly to its appearance. It is matter The stamp revenue last month was $22,841, for regret. however, that the design includes being an increase of $824 on the amount col- an incongruous conical roof, which will rise lected in the corresponding month of last year. some fifteen or twenty feet above the turrets, Henry Kerwin, an A.B. on H.M.S. Blenheim, instead of a flat roof with simple battlements, was on Thursday fined $5, or 14 days, by Com-which if slightly more expensive would greatly mander Hastings, for being a discharged pri- enhance the architectural effect. soner-attempting to convey a letter out of Victoria Gaol that morning.
HONGKONG,
No cases of infectious disease were notified last week.
We regret to state that Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., is again ill.
On Saturday afternoon some mat-sheds on the new road leading from Plautation Road Station to Magazine Gap were burned down. It is not correct. however, as at first reported, that a Chinaman lost his life in consequence.
On Thursday morning it was discovered that during the night an attempt had been made to break into the premises in Queen's Road Central occupied by Messrs. Stauffer and Co., watch-makers, etc. In the first instance the shop of the Robinson Piano Co., next door, was entered. Having first taken the precau tion to curtain the windows with some piano covers the burglar endeavoured to burst open the door which leads from Messrs. Robinson's shop to that of his neighbour. The lock gave way, but some padlocks which had been added by Messrs. Stauffer held fast, and as he found he could not force his way through without making a great noise and thus running the risk of discovery the burglar desisted and decamped.
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At the Magistracy ou Saturday Li Tai, a clerk in the employ of the P. and O. Company, was charged with making false entries in the freight manifest of the steamer Rosetta, with intend to defraud the P. and O. Com-
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pany of a sum of $688; also with embezzling that sum. Prisoner was allowed bail of 83,000, and was taken into the prisoners room at the Magistracy pending the payment of the money by his friends. While the prisoner was sitting in the room, Mr. N. G. Nolan, an officer of the Court, overheard some of the pri- souer's friends in the compound outside remark -“What's $3,000 F He'll clear out.' The Chinese then ran away, presumably to obtain the money. Iuspector Moffat reported the matter to Commander Hastings, who ordered the prisoner to be again brought before him. Eridence was given of what had occurred. Commander Hastings said the bail was fixed to ensure the prisoner remaining in the colony, not to allow him to run away. The bail money would be increased to $7,000.
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Settlements reported are:- Ningchow 1,417 -chts. at Tls. 18 to 261 picul. Keemun Kutonn Wenchow Una in
18) to 23
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501 214
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161 ik
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2,931 j-chests. Stock, 8,523 1-chests.
Green Teas.—Sales from New York are about 10 per cent under July values, whilst London remaina about on a level with previous telegraph- ed prices.
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Pingsurys. New York Arbitrators in some cases co.firun the decisions of the Inspectors in re- jecting lines of the new crop Teas We have already commented upon the senseless injustice of such rejections, whereby good wholesome Toa is prevented from being imported, and the whole trade is kept in a state of uncertainty as to what will be admitted and what rejected, but the hope that the Arbitrators would reverse the decisions of the Inspectors has not been fulfilled, and it only remains now for the Importers to agitato until the Bill is rescin led. It is impossible to to believe that any body of traders will allow A trade to be thus injured, perhaps ruinod, without The markt here is unchanged, but a small making a strong effort to get the law repealed.
amount of unreported business has been done at Tis. 37 to Tla. 48 for extra first Gunpowders, and Taels 24 to 281 for ordinary firsts, and Trols 16 to 19 for third Gunpowders. Country Teas.- During the early part of the interval Teamen continued to force their "fine" M-yane Teas, and only a small daily business was done at irregular prices, but generally in favour of bayers.
Choice" Teas, however, being in better demand did not show the same weakness and remain almost unchanged. Many Tienkai Tens hare
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