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July 15, 1899]
Governor-General hopes that the Chinese re- gulars will succeed in driving them out of Yan- nan. As to bimself, he is making all arrange ments for entering China should this become necessary. All the heads of the military depart ments have been summoned to Hanoi for con- ference and to receive the orders of the Com- mander-in-Chief in view of possible eventualities.
RAILWAY FROM MALAYA TO
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
no delay in letting go the painter. He had the cars ont backing as fast as he could to them, when a dinghy sampan came round the Violet's bow, which was moored a little above the Clutha. The boat they were in is called the Shamrock, and was built like a Thames pleasure boat. being considered the best and safest boat in the Rowing Club.
At the inquest a verdiot of accidental death returned.
PLAGUE ON PACIFIC LINERS.
In its issue of the following day the same paper says:-The Chinese steerage passenger from the City of Peking died from bubonic plague yesterday morning at the Isolation Hospital at Megami.
The opening of the Prai-Bukit Mertajam section of the new railway that is to join the The Nagasaki Press of the 29th June says:- Perak system with an outlet at Prai. opp site The P.M. steamer City of Peking arrived here Penang, took place on Wednesday, the 28th ult. on Tuesday night from Shanghai and Hong. HE. the Chief Commissioner, Sir Charles kong. She was boarded at the entrance of the Mitchell, Mr. Rodger, C M.G., and the Sultan harbour by the quarantiue officials, who on of Perak, besides practically all the leading resi-examining the Chinese steerage passengers dents of Penang were present on the cecasiou. found one of them very ill and with a high Mr. Rodger, in the course of a speech he temperature. The man was removed to the made on the occasion, said:-" It was now un- Isolation Hospital for observation and at noon derstood that this extension of the Federated yesterday the Japanese doctors decided that Malay States Railway would ere long be further the case was one of plague. The vessel has carried forward so as to connect the Province been thoroughly disinfected and placed in and the States with Burma on the north and quarantine for one week. Siam on the east, but it could scarcely be hoped that His Excellency's tenure of office could be so extended as to enable him personally to see the full benefit likely to acorne from the scheme he had promoted." Mr. Rodger speaks bere, says the Singapore Free Press, with a certain air of authority, of inner knowledge. His fore- cast is not in form so much that of a tenta- tive hypothesis which anybody might make, which indeed has often already been made but rather that of a permitted glimpse into a matter of settled official policy. The telling affect comes from bis nse of the word “now,' and from his anticipation that Sir Charles Mit- chell's tenure of office will not permit him to see this idea in its expected concrete form. That, of course, means that Sir Charles's suc- cessor will have quite a fair chance of seeing that chauge as an accomplished fact.
FATAL BATING ACCIDENT AT SHANGHAI,
A YOUNG LADY DROWNED.
Asid boating accident occurred at Shanghai on the evening of the 3rd July. Miss Ada Wallace, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the late Mr. Tom Wallace. formerly with Messrs. Mackenzie & Co., with two of her brothers, two other young men, and two young ladies. went out rowing after dinner in one of the Shanghai Rowing Club's boats. After rowing for some time in front of the Gardens listening to the band, they went alongside the yacht Clutha, which is moored on the Pootang side opposite the Bund, went on board, and rested for a little while. When they were about to return Mr. F Land and Mr. S. Wallace got into the boat. and while the former was engaged in replacing the cushions in the stern, Miss Wallace jumped into the boat, and the accident occurred, which was described by Mr. Wal lace at the inquest as follows:-He stated that he was in the Shamrock, and that his sister gave him no warning that she was going to jump. He had not cautioued her. He looked up at her and thought he held his hard out, when she jumped, caught him round the neck, and fell with him into the water. She was in high spirits, in fact she was always so. They were about five seconds under water, and were carried by the flood tide about seven to ten yards. He was considerably exhausted through swallowing a quantity of water. He held her by the waist and called out to that effect. She struggled bravely and did not catch hold of him. He had to let go of her. On her coming to the surface a second time he again caught hold of her, but had to release her, He caught hold of her a third time and found he could not support her as he was sinking him self. She finally sank a couple of yards from him, but he was powerless.
Mr. Wallace was picked up by a dinghy which arrived on the scene.
Mr. Land stated that he was the only one who knew how to manage the boat. He was a fairly good swimmer, but as there was no other boat in sight he thought he could best reuder assistance by backing the boat up to them. He could easily have got them had there been
The Japan Herald of the 24th June states that no hope is entertained of the recovery of the two patients suffering from plague on the America-maru. Dr. Hasegawa, the Director of the Sanitary Bureau, proceeded to Nagahama, where the vessel is in quarantine, immediately on receipt of the intelligence. It is stated that there are nearly 900 Chinese coolies on board the steamer. Inquiry at the Quarantine Office on the 24th inst. elicited the fact that several additional cases have been discovered on board since the vessel went into quarantine. Mr. Shiga of the Infections Diseases Investigation Office has been dispatched to the Nagahama Hospital with several ourses.
The Osaka Asaki states that a telegram was received at the Central Police Station, Osaka, from the Hyogo Kencho, requesting that a search should be made for the nine foreign passengers who arrived at Kobe on the 21st Jane by the America-maru, as it was probably they had proceeded to Osaka. Inquiries were trace of them was found in Osaka. It is sup- immediately made by the Osaka police, but no
posed they have proceeded to Yokohama direct from Kobe by train.
The Japan Advertiser translates a report from the Keika Nippo stating that the authori. ties received a telegram from Kobe to the effect that a case of plague had broken out among the first class passengers who arrived at Kobe from Hongsong by the steamer America Maru, but on application to the police we (Kobe Chronicle) are informed there is no truth in the report.
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owing to the superiority in fineness and nui- formity of weight of the money coined by the Wnchang, and Canton mints, the regulations and rules of which were instituted by H. E. Viceroy Chang Chih-tang who founded both, that at Canton being the pioneer mint of Chins established by Imperial decree making the dollars and subsidiary coins miutod there legal tender of the empire.-N. C. Daily News.
FIRE AT THE CHINESE ENGINEER- ING AND MINING CO.,LIENTSIN. On the 24th June in the afternoon,; a slight fire took place in the godowns of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, but being slight and soon discovered, it was easily ex- tinguished cansing very little damage. The next day about 2 o'clock another fire and whilst investigations were being made to the cause, and the damaged cargo was being separated from the undamaged portion and about to be removed, another fire started from another heap of the cargo which consisted of peanuts. This time however the blase was very sudden and the flames rose high. A strong wind blowing at the time, the fire soon spread to the other building destroying completely the godown and building used as an office. The cause of the fire is attributed to spontaneous combination of the peanuts, the temperature on both the 24th and 25th being more than Tientsin generally experiences. The buildings were insured in, the Sun Insurance Office for Tls, 8,50, and the value of the cargo destroyed was estimated at Tis. 25,000 which we believe was not insured.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
The foreign passengers on the America-maru, which has been quarantined at Nagabama, have| applied to their respective Consuls at Yokohama, asking that they should be granted permission to land. The matter was communicated to the Epidemic Inspection Office, and it has been arranged to allow them to land at the quarantine station at Nagahama.
THE CHINEese curreNCY.
It is a well-known fact that the inferior weights and fineness of the silver dollars and subsidiary coins made at the Nanking, Nganking, Tientsin, and Foochow mints, as compared with those coined at Wuchang and Canton, have been an almost insuperable obstacle to the free cir culation of the Dragon" money thronghont the empire, merchants, and traders unanimously refusing to accept at par the dollars and deci- mal coinage of the first four above named | mints,and in many instances even - abso- lutely refusing to accept them owing to the baseness of the mintage. The Taungli Yamén has, however, we learn from Peking, taken up this question and has recommended the Throne to sanction the dismissal of the various, staffs and the amalgamation of the machinary of the Nanking and Naganking mints with that at Wachang, and the Tientsin and Foochow with the Canton mint. This is
CHINKI
19th June.
Mr. Litton, late acting Consul at Chung- king, has been appointed Consul at Ssemao, on the Yunnan border of the Shan States. He is now proceeding thither from Kweiyang pia Kwangsi.
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The steam launch Lee-chuen made a voyage up the Kialing River, one of the navigable tributaries that outers the Yangtze at Chung- king. The launch leaving on Saturday 11th inst, steamed up stream 70 miles to the city of Hocheo, having on board H.B.M. Consul Fraser, Mr. Burn Murdoch, and Mr Bush. The ad. and stone-throwing so much so that the Consul vent of a steamer occasioned considerable štir had to threaten the crowd with a taste of small shot if they refused to behave better!!! The men- tion of such a thing was quite sufficient to re- store order, and the Lee-chuen moved happily on her way. The one unfortunte incident of the otherwise pleasant excursion was that a coolis drawing up a bucketfuk of water overbalanced. fell overboard into the river, and was drowned before assistance could reach him, China Gazette correspondent.
OPENING OF THE CUSTOM HOUSE AT TSINGTAO.
Tsingtao, 2nd July. The Kiaochau Custom House was formally opened at Tsingtao on the 1st of July by Mr. Ohlmer, Commissioner of Customs, in the pre- sence of the Governor and his staff. The ceremony of unfurling the Chinese flag was gracefully performed by the Baroness von Lilienoron.
ance, Mr. Ohlmer pointed out
In thanking the Governor for his attend- that the day marked the commencement of a DOW era in the history of the young colony-the conditions under which the Customs would function were unique in Customs history, but being on a liberal and rational basis he was convinced that they would, in a large measure, contribute
the prosperity of the new trade centre.
The Governor, în responding, referred to the amiable relations existing between the Kisochau Government, and the Customs and expre the confident hope that they would, he tained for the benefit of the Colony, on
There has been no hot weather here good deal of rain. Shipping is there are as a rule three or four, stesme port at a time, sometimes more. --N ( News correspondent.
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