of this. If our people can find no for their enterprise in this centre, it mean to stand in the way of those who Fair play to all, and the battle be to him has the longest gan'
24th July,
THE “ OPENING
OF YOCHOU.
The Hankow correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:—
rochon is not to be opened to commerce after all but a small town fire miles below it called Ch'engliachi, opposite Chinghok'on where the main river from Ichang joins the Tungting ler It is not likely to make much differ. ce to the amount of trade to be done. there. thế Hunan trade comes from beyond the Imke, and it is not likely that traders would stop at either place when already half-way to Hankow. The country behind Yoohon is poor and roadless. The people have little to sell, and still loss have they say spare money to buy with. | Where the trade is expected to come from is a mystery. The truth appears to be that it is another' case of make-believe; the hinese are aiming at opening 'anan in such way as will leave it shut up "all the sme
aforetime.
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THE JAPANESE PRESS ON ||||| TREATY. REVISION.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
ere are in the vernacular newspapers some less interesting pictorial representations new order of things in Japan. The s in the Ji. A wide open door is repre- with cross flags overhead, surmounted English word "Welcome." A repre- ntative of Young Japan, in a dress suit, at the threshold inviting a procession of gners to enter. First come four ladies in low-necked dresses-but it is a terrible libel on the Aryan type of beauty. Behind these Tour comes La belle France, half of whose face the artist has considerately hidden with a f. Then come the male figures. John Bull and Uncle Sam are dancing along, arm
mas though they had had an evening ont together. The German representative is just hind, also in a dancing attitude, but if we interpret the Russian attitude correctly it is represented as one of aloofness. In the Tokyo Mainicht there are three small illustrations representing different periods In the first a samurai is represented with a hand upon his word gazing fiercely at a retreating foreigner. In the second picture we have the foreigner looking out from a curtained window, and a Japanese standing outside gnashing his teeth. The third picture shows the same foreigner, Bat in hand, apparently applying to a Japanese to direct him somewhere, and the Japanese is smilingly pointing the way.-Hiogo News,
SAIGON.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
Saigon, 27th July. Business is very bad just now, and a good many failures amongst the Chinese are reported, for which the generally slack state of the market may be the reason. The Annamite planters are not in hurry to sell their paddy and as they are mostly rich they can afford to wait.
It has been excessively hot lately. Every- body is longing for rain.
On Tuesday, 25th July, there was much bus- tle and commotion on the quay, when the body of the late Mr. Ong Ka-tiong, the senior
SANDAKAN NOTES.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Sandakan, 26th July. The ex-Spanish steamer Churruca has been in here with several American army officers on board, including Capt. Fabriger, the head of the Public Works in the Philippines. The steamer sailed on the evening of the 26th inst. for Sulu.
On Saturday, the 22nd inst., one of the shore labourers emploved discharging the German steamer Labuan (late Kanee) fell from the upper deck into the after hold, striking the funnel in his fall. The unfortunate Chinaman lies in a precarious condition.
HONGKONG.
The report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for 1898, with the reports of the various sub-departments, is published in the Gazette.
At the Magistracy Thursday a Chinese doctor was charged with not reporting a case of plague on which he was attending. Dr. Lowson and Inspector Brett gave evidenos His Worship was about to impose a fine of $20 when defendant said he wished to call witnesses, and the case was accordingly adjoured.
The water police made another seizure of arms on 27th July and the delinquents were brought before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on the 28th July Defendents were in s boat off West Point, and on a Chinese constable searching the boat he found in it 46 rifles, 50 revolvers, and 900 rounds of ammunition.
A Gazette extraordinary was issued yesterday afternoon containing the Governor's assent, given in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the Ordinance to continue the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance 1899. The Ordinance was passed at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council and refers to the issue
of bank notes.
It is notified in the Gazette the H. E. the Governor has been pleasen to make the follow- iug promotions in the Volunteer Corps, with effect from 25th Mag-ientenant Donald Macdonald to be Captain in the Field Battery, vice Chapinan promoted; Sergeant John Henry William Armstrong to be Lieutenant in the rield Battery, vice Macdonald, promoted.
At midnight on the 10th July three houses were broken into at the village of Kutong, which is near to the uttermost station in the new
territory, and some $70 stolen. The offenders were seven men who carried arms and ter- rorised the occupants of the houses into giving up their money. One man was arrested and brought before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy on Monday, and remanded.
The N. C. Daily News of the 25th July says: -The P. M. S. China, which left Hongkong on the 18th inst, and did not arrive here until yesterday morning, managed successfully to evade the typhoon. Captain Seabury found bimself, when off Amoy, ranaing right into the disturbance and, expecting it to travel in a northerly direction, hauled the vessel out East, and then hove her to. The vessel after a number of hours was again brought on her course, and it was then noticed the typhoon was stationary, consequently the ship was hove to a second time, as nothing could be done without running the ship through the dangerous zone and causing the passengers unnecessary discomfort. A nasty cross sea was experienced, but the vessel proved herself to be an admirable seaboat, the passengers being loud in her praise on
arrival here.
ärtner of the firm of Bân Soon An and owner
of the principal rice mills, was transfer-lished in the Gazette. The fare for a chair with
New regulations for public vehicles are pub with great pomp and ceremony to the ser Sishan, Captain Jones, for conveyance
two bearers in the city is now 10 cents for a hina, Although the steamer's destination quarter-of-an-hour, 20 cents for half-an-bour, 25 cents for one hour, 50 cents for three hours, ngkong she was specially chartered to
70 cents for six hours, and 81 for a day of twelve | first to Amoy to hand the body over to
hours. Under the old tariff the fare - was 10 hily. Mr. Ong Ka-tiong died on the 7th forty-five years, and greatly respect
who knew him.
Russian spy was caught by a Chinese at wei taking photographs. He was arres-
August 5, 1899.
Dr. Lowson is now Acting Medical Ofloor of Health, Dr. Clark having gone on short leave to Amoy;
The only case of communicable disease re- ported last week, in addition to plague, was one of enteric fever.
At the Magistracy on Saturday Mr. Gom perts, on the application of Dr. Clark (Medical declaring the ground floors of Nos. 2, 3, and 4, Officer of Health), made the necessary orders Tung Tak lane, unfit for human habitation. look-out for suspicions characters in the Botani
On Monday a police officer who was on the cal Gardens took two men in custody and found them in possession of a quantity of cayenus
pepper.
On Monday afternoon Mr. G. J. W. King offered for sale by auction Inland Lot No. 1.55-, which is situate in Queen's Road East and con tains 1,050 square feet, annual rent $14. Mr. An Foug Tax was the purchaser for 8550-320 above the upset price:
MISCELLANEOUS.
The new Chinese craiser Haitien, similar to H.M.S. Bonaventure, arrived at Chefoo on the 20th July. The foreign sailors and firemen with which she was manned were brought to Shang hai per steamer Kiukiang en route for England.
In another column, says the N. C. Daily News of the 24th July, will be found the notice of the premature death at the age of 28 of Mr. Arthur Lewis Cooper, brother of Dr. Cooper of Shang hai. Mr. A. L. Cooper has been for some years in the service of the Indo-China S. N. Co., and was one of the officers of the steamer Onwo when
she was sunk by the Newchwang at Woosung“ and he never completely recovered the shock he received on that occasion.
The Chungking correspondent of the China Guzette writing on the 10th July says:We have heard with deep regret of the death of the Rev. E. O. Williams, M. A., of C I.M., Pa-cheo, which took place at his station on the evening of 30th June from typhoid fever. Mr. Williams gave up the rectorship of a flourishing congregation in Leeds, England, about ten years ago to give his life for the evangelization of the Chinese. He leaves a widow, and six sous, with whom we deeply sympathizer in this sore bereavement.
The China Gazette of 24th July says:-Yes- terday afternoon word was received at the British Consulate that pilot boat No. 4 was ashore on the South Bank; her only European occupant (Pilot W. Roberts adding that thạ vessel was being pirated by the people in the. vicinity, against whom he begged for protection. Mr. Carvill, the Shipping Vice-Consul, lost no time in obtaining the services of a tug boat, on which he put Consular Constable Brunn and two Municipal police officers, and sent her away to the assistance of the disabled craft. Up to the time of going to press they had not re- turned.
A fatal bicycle accident has occurred at Singapore. Ou the afternoon of the 19th July Mr. M. B. Monteiro, a Eurasian assistant at Messrs. J. P. Kilgour & Co., Battery-road, was riding a bicycle along the Esplanade from Cavanagh Bridge in to direction of Kampong Glam, and was crossing the road between the S. C. C. Pavilion and the Monument, when à borse and dogcart driven by a Malay named Mahomed Isahak was suddenly and sharply turned round, with the result that the bicycle collided with the vehicle, the right shaft of which pierced the body of the unfortunate oyclist. Mr. Monteiro, who was terribly injured, was taken to the General Hospital, where he died on the 21st. Mahomed Isshak stands
Monteiro by doing a rash or negligent act not charged with having capsed the death of Mr. amounting to culpable homicide.
COMMERCIAL.
TEA.
cents for half-an-hour and 20 cents for an hour, the rates for longer engagements being the
SHANGHAI, 29th July.-(From Messrs. Welch, same both in the new and old tariffs. In the Lewis & Co.'s (ircular.)-Black Tea, Barines Hill District the fares, which were formerly 15 has been restricted by the absence of common cents for half-an-hour and 30 cents for an hour, qualities, which are wanted for shipment to the United States. The lowest quotation in the have been increased to 15 cents for a quarter-of-market is Tls, 17, but the chief settlements have fare remaining unaltered. The scale for jin-good value being obtainably about rickshas remains the same as before in the sity. The second crop from these districts
taken to Chefoo by H.M.S. Rattler and ́| an-hour and 20 cents for half-an-hour, the hour been Second Crop Ningchows at T
over to the Russian Consul there.- Daily News.
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