A fomn is to de sent round for the signatures of firms giving their adhesion to the resolution that wharfage dues be levied on exports. Permission is to be asked from the bund lot holders to allow the pontoons at the end of the roads to overlap their frontage about 20 feet on each side, and the Secretary is to advertise for tenders, Tenders for the construction of drains in Hong-que are also to be advertised for. a 'A Meeting of German residents was held at their Consulate during the week, under the presidency of Mr, Amnckee, the Consul General, About forty gentlemen were present, and resolutions' were passed on the expediency of the Germans living here, obtaining the services of a pastor to conduct their religious acrvices, ina church tobe built by public subscription: The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee to carry out the views of the meeting by making enquiries as to probable expense, and by starting a subscription list to find the requisite funds, viz—Messrs, Annckee (Consul), Rome, Probst, Droege, Telge, Scheibler, and Overbeck. A subscription list, which was placed on the table, at once received numer Tous signatures.
The P. & 0. Company have discontinued their steamers which have hitherto carried the mail between Yokohama and Shanghai. "They will henceforward follow the example of the French, and run direct between Yokohama and Hongkong. Itis said, however, that the P. 40. intend soon to run a branch line Fire Engine, greater
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