Mrs. Young and amah, Mr. and Mrs. Gi and child, Messrs. C. W. St. Croix, H. E. Lubeck, and W. W. Noel. From Bombay—Mr. A.'A. Borradaile. From Colombo—Mr. Harford. From London—Dr, and Mra. If, Focke and nurse, and Mrs, Anderson two amal Per str, Yehsin, from Swatow and Amoy—Mre, Tapp and three children.
Tore have been strikes among the workmen and labourers of Shanghai before this year but we do not remem-bor two occurring in one month. But whether it be that the righta.of-labour movement has slowly reached China, and that the builders and the boat coolies have been affected by it, or whether the strikes have been accidentally arrived at in close proximity, two of them, both owing their origin to the same cause, have happened within a short time of each other. Neither was any grent importance when compared to the gigantic work mor that have on several oe: the trade and commerce of England and America into confusion, but both were of sufficient importance to deserve more than passing notice. In the case of the builders the natare of their avocations makes it unlikely that strike among them would at any time inflict injury upon the general public, The contractors avd them. selves, and the owners of the property in course of construction, with those who might be concerned with them, would loge time and money, but beyond the risk to the public w and the inconvenience of having a number of discontented men in our midst, the interests of peuple in general would not be involved. But it is very different when a class of men whose labour is or may at times be of vital necessity to the ourrent trade of the port go out upon strike. As circumstances have turned out, it has nob much mattered on this vocation
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