July 29, 1899.
the matter, and they were occupied in the en- quiries till late in the afternoon. The body of the murdered man was definitely identified by Mr. G. H, Scidmore, of the American Consulate. Cards bearing his name found in his pocket also left no doubt as to the matter.
The police are following up the Japanese with whom Miller is alleged to have been leav. ing the house, and who is supposed to have teen his accomplice.Japan Mail.
CHUNKING.
3rd July. Mr. Kato, Japanese Consul, left for Yuunan fa via Kueiyang on Monday, 26th ult. He will get the rainy season to travel in, which is extremely unhealthy in that southern province, Messrs. Burn, Murdoch, and Bush, who have been staying here as representatives of Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P. for the last three or four months, are going to make a move this week, and go on a visit to the great Salt Well distriot of this province. in the two towns of Tailisokin and Kongkin there are fully 300,000 people all more or less interested in the salt well industry. Mr. Hancock, of the Standard Oil Co., is also here, and it is suppos-d he has his eys on the possibility of working the petro- leum wells of the same district to better ad. vantage We are glad to hear Mr. and Mrs. Archibald J. Little are likely to return here in October
The river is now about 9) fest above its win- ter level and the temperature has gone above 100 deg. in the shade.—China Gazette corres pondent.
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6th July. Our postal service continues its erratic course. Recently a new regulation has come into force at the Chinese post office, whereby parcels water-borne from Shanghai or Chefoo are not subject to an additional rate as former. ly, and international parcels so carried taxed in the single domestic fee only. It is to be hoped the central authorities may soon see the absurdity of treating the Weihaiwei office as an Inland. Office" and thus free it from many of its present disabilities. For example, the office here cannot forward an international mail direct to Shanghai when opportunity offers as is sometimes the case. It must go via Chefoo, thus losing the mail on occasion, or one must post one's letters on board the steamer.
... Then again, no bag of international mail is made up for the office here, so that residents receive their mails in a most erratic and un- certain way; now through the post office from Chefoo a couple or three days' after the Fleet's and the Commissioner's mail have arrived here, and now through the kindness of the Com- missioner, on whose small staff the assorting and ordering of mail matter must throw a heary additional burden. It is said the British post office has been approached on the subject, but that Institution refuses to establish an office here on the ground of expense. And this with a surplus of £4,0 0,0 10 per annum! There are better days in store for Weihaiwei, no doubt, and meantime we are all under obligation to the officers, European and Chinese, of the Chinese pust office, and to the Commissioner and his staff as above mentioned, for such postal Lacilities as we now enjoy.
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almost constrained The rapidity of this picious. The only na that the satute Imperia her nephew, Jung, Lu is and is making overtures to his coalition["gainst him.
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Social life and sport in Tientain ing points, and no wonder ! During half of June we had Fahrenheit, or tury four times in one
once at least in Tientsin the dry hóa sive. The rains have now come,, for our six weeks annual penano
Peitaiho has completely, altare of summer life in North China children, and,
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the north, still following the sweep of the Bay lies the Matou, or port of Weihaiwei. the city itself standing by a sandy beach. At Matou a small but busy place, the chief native busi- ness is transacted. Unlike the city its streets are narrow and badly paved. Now Maton has ever been a place of average Chinese filth_and from which nauseating smells are never long or altogether absent. But those who knew the Maton in earlier years tells us that never was the place in such a vile condition before. The exceptional noisomeness is largely due to the naval contractor's slaughter-house, which has been established there since the contract fell into the hands of a Chinese firm. Not far from this slaughter-house are some foreign resid. ences, and only a little further away are the headquarters of the 1st Chinese Regiment, and missionaries are donos which is marched almost daily through the now three hundred main street to the parade ground ontside the this watering place east gate of the city. For some time past the ing the discomfo ts of health bill of the Furopean officers has been far Although there are a from satisfactory, only a few escaping un-ments in the four loca scathed, some being more seriously ill. It is demand for houses, greater difficult to escape the couclusion that we have Sir Robert Hart has again here cause and effect. It is not too much to 'eitaiho, his second"exit: in say that the condition of the Matou at the He derived so much benefit from the present moment is a disgrace to the flag under last year that he had practically no opt which it is supposed to be governed. The British season. The British Minister authorities let it severely alone; it will not deal ready before the autumn; s note so leniently with them if steps to remedy this me to remark that the people scandalous state of affairs are not taken speedi- fully expect to see Sir Ulande ly. It is said that shortly all unlicensed dogs They do not share the impres on Malou are to be summarily dealt with. A in the South, thất his health* boon to be sure, and a welcome more if we may return to China. His Excellency? gather from it that the authorities are about to with their aunt are at Peitaiho, discharge some of their responsibilities on the In Tientsin itself' we are. mainland as well as on the island. There, need-| rumours of competition in the less, to remark slaughtering is forbidden. It period of twenty years our should not be difficult to raise a tax from the stock affair, the Taku Tug and Lighter shopkeepers and others on the Matou, which|pany, has had the monopoly of economically administered would do much to On the whole it has done the mitigate the nuisances mentioned above. A when there is a glut of shipp police force, too. is needed. but it is to be hoped have its resources been un it may not be a duqlicate of the Chinese force trade, i hene gluts have which at present terrorises the island.
of late years, and by detention is opposition is somewhat real for that, it is suppos the big sharebølders of Company in their private said to have already ordered two tow boats in Shanghai, and objective the exclusive or subsidiary of the China Merchants, fleet. lized it will indeed be a serious, such time as the expanding again requires all the resources of ter Company. The China Merchant years have had 1. the sole transit of rice; it is clean cargo, quickly and led, and is a great source of profit cerned. The new venture will prob get all this portion of the import.
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Fishing-boats returning from N-wchwang and neighbourhood with the proceeds of their catch report having fallen on evil times. In barbour and at sea they have been boarded and robbed of money and cargo, and that not by one band of pirates-there seem to have been several according to the accounts of the men. It is a pity the Fame and the Whiting are away. Here is work for which they are just cut out As it is, there is only the Powerful!
For twenty years preceding the war with Japan, pirates have given no trouble in northern waters; but since the war, there has been a recrudescence, increasing yearly. It will probably be found that their lairs are in the northern of the Miao Islands, off Tengchoufu. Quite a number of local boats are said to bave been "held up" during the past few days.-N. C. Daily News.
TIENTSIN.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Tientsin, 14th July. The political situation in Peking can only be characterized in the words of the Irish school- master as "dull as ditch-water."
At the mo ment the volcano, on the sides of which we all comfortably dwell, is as tame as a Datch dune; and if to-morrow is to see us fleeing helter skelter down the sides; well-we will wait till to-morrow comes. The Bank (Hongkong and Shanghai) opened its new commanding premises in Legation Street with solat and with copious libations of " the foaming grape of Eastern Frauce. This, with the significant fact that after thirty years of protest and representations Legation Street has been cleaned, levelled, and macadamized. is the most potent and patent fact in the foreign life of Peking during 1899. E puro si Muove.
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As already mentioned, the headquarters of the British administration at Weihaiwei are on the island called Liukungtao, off which the ships anchor, and where only leave is given to the men. Where also, with one exception, the foreign firms have established themselves, where there are policemen, a daily Court of Justice. and where are clealiness and general comfort, thanks to the unremitting vigilance of Her Majesty's Commissioner and his small but efficient staff, The houses on the island have for the most part Whether there is wile behind the more, or a southern aspect, the principal streets running not no one can say, but the Dowager is coquet- east and west with an outlook over a wide sweepting with the mask of Reform. Progressive of water stretching fully five miles, where the bay is widest to the south. To the west, and just a little south on the mainland, lies Flag. staff Camp where a hundred marines find accommodation. Further west lies the city Weihaiwei-Terror of the Sea shall we call if
"hich is not under British jurisdiction. To
literature in the booklet and pamphlet form has again appeared not only on the bucksters stalls, but in the book shops in Tientsin, and, it in occultly said, with the direct approval of the powers that be. Nay, more! On dit that the sugust lady herself dips into the quondam pernicious stuff, and is – herself
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Tientsin is this year again maint rate of expansion. Two large machinery for wool cleaning, Church, and a Girls school are mo hand. A Swimming Bath is spoken in all probability be a reality next ye houses in recent years the demand withstanding the great increa
greater than-the-supply.--
Gordon Hall has had extensive galleries this spring, and a new Club-building com rate with the greater dignity of the present the subject of s. select” commi enquiry...
Mr. Carles is expected here to-day a sor to Mr. B. L. Guorge Scott in the Consulate. Mr. Scott leaves for Cante course of a few days.
here on linguistic mission, a sign
We have at prosenthalf-a-dosen Ind
They prefer Tientsin the Capi quarters are often unstixigable, and discomfort are supreme..
At the Magistra men was charged without a license," "The detective searched a camp fendants and found there 11 rounds of ammunition, and ridges. / First defendant- other $10 each!”,
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