Phythian, is shortly leaving for home, and is Ca be replaced as flay-ship on this sti y the Brooklyn. Meanwhile Admiral Davis itted his flag to the Omaha, Captain Selfridge.
The blue-funnel steamer Telamon has had a very undecided career this voyage, She was detained at Perim and her Shang: hai cargo sent on by other steamers of the same line, and it was aunonuced that she would not come beyond She was than, before hee arr t Hongkong, advertised in the Daily Press and China Mail "for Sha i Amoy." SI duly arrived the 13th mat., and was d to return Singapore, This will explain dietary reports as to her movements which inserted in these columns, Cyprus, from Wew York for Shanghai, with petroleum, put in to Bahia with logs of sails, pumps broken, and other daninge, caused by heavy weather, She aleo jettisoned 2,000 boxes of her cargo. After refitting, she preceded on the 8th March.
Me. LI. S Bidwell made an application at the Hongkong Police Court on the 10h for a summons against the printer and publisher of the China Mail on a charge libelling him in the account the China fail gave of Mr Bislwell's application for ust Mr. Walter of the Hong hai Bank, Both the Police Mxgiatrates dectined to grant the summon The Maily Press of 10th instant say:
saturday morning, the Netherlands navigation Company's steamer Camorta, which has been under arrest oont months, in consequence of her collision with the Glen Lino steamer Glenfiuin in Hongkong harbour, on the 17th October 1885, was, by order of the Vice-Admiralty Court, sold by auction where she lies xt' Hung Ham. Mr. FI A. Hozeland, Marshal of the Court, officiated as auctioneer, and the sale took place on board the vessel, 'There was not a large attendance, and the bidding was confined to the representatives of Mevare, Jardine, Matheson & Ca, and Messrs. Adam-on, Bell & Ca, Mr. C. Anderson, for the former, commenced the bidding,' with an offer of $100 above the upset price of $40,000, and continued the competition until he reached $75,100, the vessel being then knocked down to Mr. E. S, Whealler, for Measra, Adamson, Bell & Ca., for $75,200. The coal on board, consisting of 270 tous Cardiff and Austr lion mixed, was also purchased by Me, Whealler at 35.10 per ton, ec petition with Mr. Al You, The ola made on behalf of the Glenfruin was for over x million dollars, so that the amount realised by the seizure of the vessel adjudged to be at fault in the collis not cover one tenth of the claim.
The Cumorta is " comparatively new a having been built by Mr. A. J.T isles, at Glasgow, in November, 1880, and' is classed 100 Al at Lloyds.' She is a vessel of 1,430 uet_tumage, and in 285 feet in length by 35 feet beam, and" 24 feet deep. In her collision with the Glenfruin a portion of her stem and forefoot together with several bow pintes were knocked away, end she will of course require rather extensive repairs, but there is good value in 1 r she will prove ud investment.
We read in the Daily Press:—The Hamburg steamer Bohemia, Captain R. Karlowa, which sailed from Cuxhaven to New York on the 13th March with a cargo of 3,000 tons and 230 passengers, reports successful experiments in pouring oil on the troubled waters. The voreél lind a rough passage. At midnight on Februgry 24th it was found necessary to stop the engines and let the ship drive in order to prevent pitching, heavy seas breaking oxer her frequently, At this time the captain caused five bags Gilled with oil to be lung on the windward side of the vessel in the water, on which the ship lay well and took no more water. Next day another terrific storm occurred and the same experiment being tried—the stopping of the engines and the hanging out of Unga of oil—equally satisfactory re-nits were secured, The consumption of oil during 23 hours was 1301b, while the engines saved at least 35 tons of coal, and neither lubricating oil nor tallow had to be used, Captain Kurlowa in his report says that the quieting of the sea by means of oil is a plan of untold value for heavily-laden The crew on deck during the were able to do necessary work which but for the use of vil could only have been done at the peril of limb and life, The Daily Press says, thnt in the recent proclamation of M Paul Bert to the Tong: king ese he describes himself as a member of the "Hanlin" of France, U is being the translation adopted fur the French Academ The Jupar Gacette anys:—Wo notice in the Estimatos a sum of £300 fur the repairs and maintenance of the temporary depot at Port Hamilton, This does nov look like either the abandonment of the island or ite fortification ws coaling-ata Mr, Watkins the absconding paymaster of the U.S.S. Ossipee hus been captured, He Innded from the schooner Aveli: on one of the Kurile islands, which is unin ry cold and with no mons of life, ay that after concealing mself for thirty hours he could #tand it 0 longer, and was glad to give himeelf uup to the Ossipee, which brought him back to Yokohams in close arrest.
Phe Japauess are bogint ig to appreciate the terest which foreigners take in the iquitis of Jupan, and last your authorities at Osake ordered the gar of the castle, which is a favourite ight-seers, to keep it in good repair, far as practicable in ite origi condition, And they have gone even farther than that; they have removed the principal building of Wakayama castle bodily to Osaka, and re-erected it within the Osaka castle grounds, and they are adding a mound and to the west, so that visitors to Osaka will be able to roulise thoroughly what " Japanese feudal castle ought to have bee In the translations from native papers published in the Japan Herald la th chided a contract with Mossra, illes & Ca, The Nippon Railway Company has con-
at Tsukiji, Tokio, which constitutes firm as exclusive suppliers to the above Railway Company of all rails to be used by them for the next eixh the profits that will result to Messrs, Illies & Ca., by carrying out this contract, are estimated at about yen 1,000,000. Heretofore we have principally got out aupplivs of rails through Englishmen, but the Germans have gained popularity in our country. Yhis seems to be in harmony with the new policy. It is said that the above firm has a letter of recommendation from Prince Bismarck, We (Straits Times) have been shown a specimen of the new French duller for Indo-China, It la a beautiful executed silver coin about the size of a Mexican dollar, but we believe a little heavier.
On the th female figure seated with a fussies symbolic of power in her right haud and the legend que Frangaise 1885. On the other e centre are the words Piastre de Commerce surrounded by a wreath; outside the legend:—Iudo Chine Frangsise, Titre 0.900. Poids 27.215 Gr,
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