runs to and fro ey carrying wood, T'aipeh-fa, North Formosa, a train stone, and other materls for the etl uncompleted railway. Alongside the track stand soldiers with whips to keep the overcurious natives from coming too near the "Flying Cloud," as this train is named. On BletSept. it was coming back toT'si-peh with many empty trucks in tow when itunfortunately got off the rails, a truck capsized, the account he gave rather mixed: adiginine Yung-kia Hien) Mr. Chang, who finding,
and a number of nervy coolies, with Mr. tered 200 with the bamboo, and ordered Lo-sun (?) the overseer, received injuries. him to wear a large cangue at the scene of The soldiers carried them back but it is not his swindling exploits for the space of one known yet how serious their injuries may month.—Hw Pao.
The following is the Taotai's reply to a The Governor Liu Ming-chuan has sent joint petition of the Chinese cotton-mer-a deputy with two native overseers to chants of Shanghai:—'I can see no grounds Hongkong to buy strong sleepers fora large for the apprehensi-us expressed in this bridge on the T'si-peh line petition, of injury to the cotton, busines ith regard to our previous mention of a threatened rising at Hui-pwShih by the ton Spinning and Weaving Companies the action of the recently established gang of banditti in the mountains of Jui-at this port. Their operations have re-chow Fu, Kiangsi, we new hear that on the ceived the sanction of the Superintendent night of 24th Sept. after the third watch, of Trade for the Northern ports, and as a eight of the gang were brought back by the preliminary step to weaving they are using troops, the City Gate being opened in the Tieir machinery for cleaning their cotton middle of the night at the summons of the of its seeds, Their machinery for weaving commander to let them be brought in. All cloth from this so cleansed cotton beii these men have now confessed, and will not yet ready, they dispose of their cleans shortly be beheaded. It appears from their cotton in the market; and the superiority evidence, which there is no reason to doubt, of machinery over hand work which it that there are several encampments of the illustrates, cannot but tend to the advan-brigands, one band coming from Nantage of our commerce, and to our receiving chang Fu, (the Capital of Kiangsi), one increased consideration from the otitside from Hu-know Hien, in the Kiukiang Prefecture, and one from Kiukiang itself. An ori. ce of sett, on the other expedition was to leave shortly for the with their machinery, bearing only' the and, annually prepared by the companies
Mung-shan mountains to dislodge and proportion of one-tenth at most to the capture them. The alarm and strict sur-cotton in the Shanghai market, 1. think veillance at Hui-pu Shi and Jui-chow Fu that it cannot cause the prejudice to the have given place to tranquility, The chet petitioners business of which they appear of the band are, the "'Shun-tien Wang," to be in dread. What they wish to obtain, at Feng-kin Shan, the so-called ta indeed, by this petition, appears to be Tsiang-kun" (Great Generalissimo) at Feng-something very like an improper mon hwang Shan, and a number of others. They for themselves, and an undue control of are mostly "fasting robbers," who are the cotton business. It is to be observed, under a vow to obtain from certain indulalso, that the form of their petition is genees, and are in league with the Kolao highly irregular." secret society to raise disturbances,—Shén who advertisement sheet of the native "a0.
'A drunken fellow staggered into the Tadtat publishes the following reply fros apers, after the above reply from Kung
Shanghai Magistrate's Yamen yesterday, the Viceroy of the Two Kiang provinces to a and complained that his pigtail had been milar petition from the same cotton firms pulled off by an old man selling sweet-—"The permission granted by the Sumeats, and he called loudly for the punisherintendent of the Northern ports to the still hanging in its right place, and the ment of the aggressor. His queue was Shanghai Cotton Spinning Company, was intended not only to assist them, but to re-magistrate, justly offended at the attempt conquer for China, those sources of wealth to take up his valuable time with such which properly belonged to her. Before frivolous complaints, had him chained up the cotton thread can be spun, the cotton outside the front gate of the Yamen for a must be prepared by being cleaned of its spell as a warning. seeds; and the surplus cotton which has Cholera still continues in the Tamsui been so cleaned, I opine can hardly be in district, and the Tamsui Magistrate has large quantity. The Company, their spin-issued a proclamation in which he ascribes ning machinery having not yet been set up, it to no other cause than the filthy state of but having their ginning machinery and the streets, which he orders all the inhabitants to keep clean.—Shén-Pao. presses ready for use, utiliae, these manner which has filled the petitioners with Kung Taotai has notified the Shanghai apprehensions that their own trade is Chinese that the Ist day of the 9th moon being seriously prejudiced by the exporta-(Sth October) is the time to put on the winter head-year, warm cap" as it is tion to foreign countries of gimed ection the Cotton Spinning Company. Although called. these forebodings appear to me to be exag-'The ways of making money in this world gerated, yet as the matter is of such vital are many, and not all of them honest. At importance to the peti cioners and the people Wenchow, Foochow salt is no longer allowed in general, and Tam anxious to arrive at a to be imported, and to enforce the pro-conclusion which shall prevent any conflict, hibition now again put in vigour, a good of interests while securing impartial justice many native revenue runners are era ployed. to all concerned, I ain requesting the 'A Wenchow man turned this to his private Taotai of Shanghai to furnish me with profit in the following way. He gave out exact statistics as to the extent of the Bhat he was delegated by Ho, Chief of the machinery to be employed by the Salt Revenue Station, to enlist 100 runners Companies for spinning and _ginnin, or soldiers, who would receive 5,000 cash a month pay, but must pay 400 cash as cotton, if any, produced in excess of th respectively; as to the quantity of inno requirements for spinning, and how it is before entering on their duties, which he enlistment fee as a preliminary step disposed of; and as to the quantities of would receive from them. He even went ginned cotton and uncleansed cotton ex-so far as to indicate a certain tailor's shop ported, respectively, from Shanghai, for a where, he said, a hundred uniforms were number of up to date." being made for the recruits or would be As already mentioned, at Pilam in South presently ordered. The unemployed came Formosa the Chinese colonists had alli in crowds to enrol themselves as salt themselves with the aboriginal savages and runners, and he very soon had collected organised an armed opposition to the new from four of them 1,600 cash, Two Iand-tax. So serious was this opposition, of the candi however, more wary that the Governor, Lin Ming-chuan, tele-than the rest, thought of going outside Wenchow North Gate to the Salt Lekin eraghed to Li Hung-chang, Superintendent of the Northern Ports, to send Admiral Office, revenue junks, and elsewhere, to Ting, who proceeded thither with two iron-make some enquiries, and soon returned clads, the Chi-yuan and the Tsing-titan, with some police and arrested Mr. Liu in On Sard Septenibor the latter vessel arrived the midst of his admiring recruits. Ho at Keelung, with the news that on 18th, was sent to the Wenchow Magistrate (the 19th and 20th, the Imperial troops had
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