Pulmonary Tuberculosis, on the 16th of January, Mrs. W. B. Hasturos, of the American Presbyterian Mission, aged 22 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 5th February, 1889, Jexemian McUartuy, aged 50 years.
Per str, Oxus, for Hongkoug—Messrs, W.
Cliffo en Nahe So Koo For Saigon, Fe Toong Wong Ping, Song, H. Dick and F, Schmidt, Shannon, from London—Niss and From Hongkong—Mesars.
er, Crawford and E. 8. Smith, Per' str, Djenmah, from Mara for Shanghai—'A. Leblois, Phelippi and Rathouis, From Hongkong—Messra, Van Schermbeck, in, Fisser, Steimpel, Gove, vou Butler, Mra, Butler. Mr, For Japan: Marchal, Mr. and Mrs.
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Per sir. Chungking, from Chefoo—Mesars, Gipperiob, Yuenwo, from Hankow—Mr, Ir is about twenty years since the Wu-ying-tien was burnt down immediately in front of the Emperor's apartments, but separated by his Majesty's private library, the palace crenelated wall, an ice house and one of the historiographer's offices. These buildings and their courts would not: prevent. the fire on that occasion from being seen as a most alarming object from the windows of the Imperial apartments. The loss in printing blocks of many valuable works in that fire was very Saomary 17th, was a little further away rear. The fire which has just occurred,
from the Emperor's apartments, but dowager Empress and the Emperor ite near enough to render the
seriously uneasy. This uneasiness would not be from fear of the fire spreading near the residential apartments, but as an unlucky portent happening at a date very near that fixed for the Imperial wedding. The highest building in Peking. is the Great Hall of Audience called Tai-ho-tien. [n this hall the Emperor sits on New Year's day to receive the congratulations of the prostrate multitude of princes and officers who then assemble. All prostrate themselves in their diary princes of the first rank to the laces forming eighteen rows, from here-ordinary gilt button of the Bachelor of Arts. This ceremony will now have taken place close to the seat of the fire, for it is the Tai-ho-men which is burnt down, the large south gateway to the prostration court. Its height was proportioned to the dimensions of the Great Hall of Audience. It had nine pillars in front on a pavement which is reached by nine steps from
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