Besember 9, 1899.
ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER
“ICHANG.”:
The CN.8. Ichang dooked in Messrs. Boyd and Co.'s dock, Shanghai, on 23rd August, for repairs: The vessel left Shanghai on the 9th July for Vladivostook laden with tea, aud on going down the North channel unfortunately grounded in the narrowest part. The vessel was subjected to a terrible strain through the falling of the water, but no cause for anxiety was experienced. The following tide she floated and proceeded on her voyage apparently none the worse for the misadventure. However, on discharging her cargo at Vladivostock many of the stanchions in the main hold were found to be badly bent indicating that the bottom of the vesel had been lifted, and on examination a lifting of about fourteen inches was ascertained. Owing to the excellent material and care with which the ship is bailt not the faintest leak was discernible fore or aft. and the whole of the va luable cargo was discharged without a single package being damaged. The vessel has since successfully brought a full cargo of coal from Japan. Her repairs, which necessitate the out ting out and straightening of the keel plate and a number of the frames, will occupy probably three or four weeks, and in the meantime she will undergo her annual overhaul.-N. C. Daily
News.
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THE REFLOATING OF THE " ARGYLL,"
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
coolies left us before the rainy season set in, and those that stayed are asking for an advance of 38 per cent in their wages.
Every Monday and Tuesday evening we have fine concerts given by the band of the Seeba. tallion at the two principal hotels.
It is reported that Prince Henry will leave us, homeward-bound, in November next.-N. C. Daily News correspondent,
NEWCHWANG,
23rd August.
The Plague has assumed the dimensions it From 8 to 12 deaths occur daily on an average was expected to reach under existing conditions. in our town, and several enses have ap peared near European habitations. In "Russia town several cases made their appearance among the Chinese employees, but the houses they occupied were promptly burned to the ground by the Railway authorities. Nothing is really done by the Chinese authorities to arrest the progress and the weather we are having now is promoting its rapid spread.
The coolies employed at the beancake mills wrecked part of a factory and the strike is
· are on strike for more wages. They recently beginning to affect the shipping. Inland coolies, similarly employed, have joined the strikers. It is anticipated that the cargo boat coolies will shortly discontinue work for like
reasons.
In the faos of strikes, riots, plagues, wo are not neglecting our amusement; cricket, tennis, The Kobe Chronicle of the. 28th August, etc., etc., are the chief amusements.
Mr. Matt, Smith, the Kobe manager of Mesura. Dodwell & Co., Limited, the agents of the Argyll, applied on the 26th inst. to the Kobe Water Police and City Office, asking for, Assistance in the refloating of the Argyll in ac- oprdance with the Shipwreck Resone Law an- nounced this,
year. Messrs.: Kambara -and Shirays, the clerks of the City Office, visited the fteamer on the same day, and they were told that at present no extra assistance was required, but in case of necessity a supply of coolies would be asked for.
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The continuous whistling of the Eastern
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Extension Railroad engines is the cause of many a sleepless night to the light sleeper. No doubt, in time, we shall have to be used to other lanovations.—Mercury correspondent.
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SANDAKAN NOTES:
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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Sandakan, 28th August. Official word has been received here that the Spanish Government have awarded and are Work on the refloating of the Argyll seems steamer Labuan, a chronometer-watch and chain |
forwarding to Captain Harry Pfort, of the local to have almost entirely stopped, owing ap for the bravery and bumanity exhibited by him parently to difficulties put in the way by then rescueing a number of Spanish subjects, Japanese. The men engaged in the recon- including the wife of the murdered Governor, struption of the pier, which it is alleged the and several priests, from Balahac some months Argyll destroyed, have fenced in a portion of back. That this presentation is well deserved the beach immediately next the stranded ressel, in undoubted, for the pluckiness of the act can and have claimed the right to exclude all those hardly be over-estimated. approaching the vessel from entering this por- tion of the shore. As the ladder, which is the only means of getting on board, can only be reached by entering the piece fenced in, some trouble has occurred. Yesterday, the Captain leaving the Argyll and going through the fenced-in portion was stoned, and as a result the Captain immediately fetched a policeman and had one of his assailants arrested.
“PROGRESS AT KIAOCHAU,
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From Kiaochau, we learn that building is going on everywhere, while sanitation is not neglected for the authorities are constracting concrete drains, some of them seven feet high, so thats man can walk upright in them. The whole place is very busy and houses hard to get. The hotels are full; even the new hotel with fortysix rooms is fully occupied, though is is infested with flies. This drawback will probably be remedied when the building is finished and the ground properly drained. Union.
20th August. The irregularity of our mail steamers is a great annoyance to the community here. Our European mail due at Shanghai on the 16th inst will not reach us before the 23rd, and the same steamer will bring the mail due on the 21st at Shanghai.
The shooting here now is excellent, there being other birds, and lots of hares this year.
plenty of snipe, herons, woodgook, and
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scond big brick kiln capable of turning to eight million bricks annually has been tracted on Chiposan Island. But though eather is fine building goes on very slowly owing tortasɛwants of coolism. Thousanda, of
It is reported that the steamer Libelle, a ves sal well known in these waters, has been char- tered by the East India S. S. Co, Limited, who intend to run her from Singapore to Manila, via Labuan, Sandakan, Sulu, Zamboanga, and Iloilo. This will be another link between the Philip pines and Borneo, and help to foster a steadily growing trade.
The Manila steamer Tarlas (under the Ameri- can Flag) is here now, loading firewood for the tobacco factories there.
Mr. 8. A. Korezki, has ohartered the steamer Sulu (late Bandjermassim) for three months, with the option of making it six, for the par- pose of trading hence round and about the Philippine Islands.
PAKHOI.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
foreigners for his integrity and other virtues as an official, and consequently
the case with an upright Chinese The seven men will probably all lose on its being proved that they, are the Society.
will be sent to Singapore for a thuron
It is expected the Government cruiser Surely Hongkong would be a better her, not only on secount of the dists being shorter, but, mainly, becans would probably be done so much,
A Chinaman, Tan Ah Kow for th his paramour, by stabbing, murder of a woman, Tan Ah
This afternoon seventeen Chine sentence of seven years, rigorous, of a number destined for tobacco estate, on the Kinabata started lighting amongst the depot. When the constabula tried to quell the disturbance, they upon savagely, the coolics, all hat with them. The coolies were only the constabulary prepared to fire They are now under arrest and will b punished.
26th August.: A successful capture of seven members of the Triad Society was effected on the right of the 21st instant, at a place called Ti-kok, about two and a half miles to the west of the town, where a meeting of the members of the Society was to be held. The authorities having got wind of the affair, surprised them, but unfortunately too soon. Notwithstanding, seven of them were apprehended. Had the authorities learnt the exact time when the meeting was to have been held a good many more would have fallen into the clutches of the braves," as it is said
Plague has now completely disappeared case has come under observation. Curious, to our midst. For fully two months, not a sing say, it left us all of a sudden without an tary or other improvement being effected. The native town and suburbs are as filthy natives paying no heed to the danger of their and will doubtless be so until doomsday,, surroundings, as they fail to comprehend the advantages to be derived from the rules of
hygiene, as a means for promoting health. shorter intervals than formerly. 7 It is not ver Steamers from your port arrive here often that our dull port is not enlivened by the presence of a steamer now-a-days, although they come and go scarcely half filled with carg which, no doubt, means loss to their, respective owners. Competition between the two lines of steamers is very keen, resulting in a very low merchants are reaping the benefit of the content rate of fright, especially on outward cargo. The to their hearts content. dauka
Customs for a good many months, but the work We have been without a Commissioner of in the Customs is going on smoothly, all the same under the direction of Dr. A. S. Daan, who is acting as Commissioner pro tem., «kines the aparture of Commissioner Morse for Han. cow. The Customs here is somewhat under- manned at present both in the in-door and out- remedied the better in order to relieve thi door staffs, and the sooner this state of things in hardship on the members of the staff, patiently bearing their burden without,
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gradually extending its buildings, and conse
Church Missionary Society's Hospital is quently its usefulness. A new piece of land. the west of the hospital, has, just been secured with the view of extending the leper- The lepers number at present over one male and funale, and it is quite edifying how such a number of human beings from the most loathsome disease, are such a cleanly and orderly way, which can reflect great credit on the able ma he directors, as it requires not only a good deal of devotion, energy denial. The number of out-pat themelves of the advantages of healing art is also very great. benefit on the poor natives, the bought a house in Kowtack, a district some three miles to the east of Pakhoi, where the doctors in the hospital, together native assistant, pays a regular visit, t week (Tesdays and Fridays) in order to show any assistance they can to the poor, especially amongst the junk population. ~ This stitution has only been established a few and seems to work very:v
Concerning the r Congress, a
It is a pity, It
that the Triad Society fraternity here or not made to thawe several hundreds. The captured men were ed here until the 24th instant, when they were | Abdulla al-Ha escorted to. Linchow-to be dealt with by the gress. I kn Prefect, accompanied by the Governor of Pak - &c. &c., hoi, Kao Seok-chio, who, by-the-bye, is a very
ences would energetic glaial, liked by both analiyes, and a might hava
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