CUSTOMS, Telegrams were received here on Tuesday anuoancivg the appointment of Mr, James Hart as Inspector-General of Customs.
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London, 8th August. ointment of the Hon. Cecil mith, O.M.G., Colonial Secretary 10 be Colonial Secretary tenant-Governor of Ceylon, is conferred by the King of Italy upon Mr. Gouersl Manager of the legraph Company, in vices to the Italian n these waters, regret to hear of the death, afew days in England, of Mi Pirkia, of the British Logi Peking. Ho leaves a widow tro children, Mr. Pirkia will be sincerely regretted by a very large circle of fri Ho was a man, we suppose, who actually all; had no enemies; and that is a thing that can be said of very few. A kinder or more genial companion there certainly never was, it Richard Rennie, H.B.M.'s Chief Tustice, arrived in Shanghai yesterday by the Nagoya Maru, HE. P'an, Futai of Kuei-chou, having been to Po rived at Shanghai in the Fungshun on Friday night on in way to his home at Soochow.
His Excellency Hai Chen, President of the Board of Punishments, etc., is his departure for the south hav delayed owing to the bad weather.
umour that H.E. had been attacked had succumbed after without ponse ago by the community to the appeal for assistance on behalf of the Canton Inundation Fund, the amount subscribed was quite inadequate to relieve the terrible distress prevailing in the Liang Kuang provinces. Some benevolent Chinese gentlemen have therefore decided to make fresh efforts, and we bell tend to try and induce the charitable among us, when the weather is getting cooler, to help them in three ways: first by an ama-tour theatrical performance in the Lyceum Theatre, secondly by a monster baker or
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