Berlin, 2nd September.
An official bulletin states that the Crown Prince progresses towards recovery, because his general health is excellent, but a return of the growth is not improbable, and absolute rest of the voice is imperative, also the avoidance of all cold and damp.
A telegram has been received in Tientsin from the Concessionaires of the American-Chinese Bank, in the United States, sayi that they accept the terms agreed upon wit] Count Mitkiewicz, and that an agent will proceed to China forthwith to conclude' the necessary arrangements.
China Shipowners' Association field on At the seventh annual meeting of the
Wednesday at the office of the Agents, after ing the Directors' Report and Accounts, the shareholders agreed to wind up the Company, and Messrs. Morris, Galles, M.
Cools' and Bannerman were appointed a Committee with the same power as a Board of Directors, to carry out the dissolution, and wind up the Association as advanta-Sompeny shewed that the net earings oonsly as ible. The report of the amounting to Tls. 4,095.96, had been more than absorbed by re-classing, re-metalling and repairs, the working showing a loss for the year of Tls. 3,907.49. The four ships of the company's fleet are fully employed at current rates of freight.
At the annual meeting of the Amateur DramaticClub on Thursday, the usual formal business was transacted, and the outgoing Committee re-elected for the ensuing year with the exception that Mr. Fabris replaces Mr. Halton, who retires. Thirteen new members were elected to the Club, and the former balloting Committee was re-elected en bloc, The Reportand Accounts are satisfactory from one point of view, the financial, and unsatisfactory from another, the histrionic. The Club only gave to por: formances during the season, both of which terior of the Theatre, and we are glad to know that the taste and skill of Mr. Cory, already proved at the Shanghai Club, will earn a fresh meed of admiration when the Lyceum opens its doors once more.
The Report of the New Lyceum Theatre for the past year states that the Theatre has being fairly well occupied, there having been altogether thirty-seven performances, of which thirty-one were by professionals, in the twelve months, The receipts for rent were Tls. 1,292.31, a dividend of four per cent. was paid on the ordinary debentures, and the full interest of five per cent. on the preference debentures, and the accounts shew a balance in hand on the 6th of September of Tls. 1,347.65; but as the decorations and repairs of the Theatre, the new curtain, ete., will absorb a considerable portion of this sum, and the fire insurance and interest on the preference debentures have to be provided for, there will be no dividend paid on the ordinary debentures at present.
Ve dare say it will strike most people as strange that Lord Salisbury should have said that the establishment of an American-Chinese Bank in China was outside the ts of those matters on which the British representative should think it worth the nse of telegraphing. Ordinary people will think that it was just one of those things which the British representative should have telegraphed home at once. The scheme of the Bank and its affiliated concessions involved the greatest change in Chinese affairs which has as yet been proposed, in fact it comprehended everything necessary to make China as nearly the equal of European countries as she can be made. But in this instance, we believe that our Minister at Peking knew nothing of the doings of Count Mitkiewic until they had been reported from Shanghai to Tientsin, and thence to the capital. © But the Consul-General should not have lost a moment in reporting the matter to the Foreign Ottice, that is, if he has authority to spend a few dollars' in important affairs like this, and if he has no authority for so doing, the sooner he obtains it the better for the credit of the Foreign Office. The following, from the Daily Neves of the 6th August, shows that one of Sir John Walsham's col leagues was no better informed; indeed, we believe, that none of them then knew anything of the matter:—Our Paris correspondent writes:—M. Constans, the French inister at Peking, knows nothing about the concession which Mr. Jay Gould's syndicate is said to have obtained from the Imperial Government of Ching for telephones, rile ways, and banks. The idea here is that such a concession, owing to the provincial system of government, would, if acted upon, were fortunately vet well attended, so be ud of little use.' Each Chinese pro-much go that whiletheClub began the season nay be said in matters of finance to ith a debit balance of $35.11, it conclu enjoy Home Rule. The administration of it with a credit balance of $267.36; and this roads and waterways is also provincial. The fortunate result is not due to any special only railway concession which has been economy in the matters of advertising and 46838. 51), scenery and properties (8335.36), ranting (which cost $237.37), wardrobe acted upon was granted by Li Hung-chang as Governor of Petchili, and is within the limits of his government. There are some refreshments ($299.50), music ($335), gas provinces too conservative to tolerate the (8146.67) sundry expenses ($309.28) or rent team Devil. M. Constans doubtless had, ($250). The small number of performances as well as " diplomatic mission, a secret given, only two against the five or six a one for the promotion of French financial season which the Club used to give, is companies, and the obtaining of concessions, attributed to the difficulty of getting ladies and would regard the march which Mr. to act, though it seems paradoxical that as Jay Gould has stolen on Europe as a defeat the number of ladies increases in Shanghai, to himself. the number of those willing to come on the We hear that about 512 junks were boards should decrease. It is to be hoped burnt during the fire at Hankow besides that the Club will have better luck during over 2,000 sampans, and one thousand lives the coming season, and be able to give were lost. The fire originated from a us a monthly performance, as it used to do. cookhouse situated near the Han. It is The allegorical cars which formed " not-supposed that a man was baking some able part of the Jubilee procession in June, cakes and in order to raise the fire which are mentioned, and their designers deserve did not burn well he put on some kerosene every credit; it is noticeable that their oil, which rapidly set fire to the premises, preparation does not appear to have drawn and this grew into an enormous conflagraon the Club's resources at all. It is satistion, factory to see that the Trustees have at The Kiangyun which arrived here on last taken in hand the decoration of the inthe 10th from hankow reports that the L
Chief Pilot, Mr. F. Matzen, died suddenly at Hankow of heart disease. He was a native of Kappel, Germany. The Kiangsnoug experienced fine weather and moderate Easterly winds throughout.
(20th inst.) by the Umi Mary was Mrs, J.D.
Amongst the passengers on Saturday Kennedy, wife of the popular U.S. Consul-General, who accompanies her as far as Yokohama. Mrs. Kennedy and family are returning to America, temporarily it.is hoped by the many friends she has made during her stay in Shanghai, 'The gross profits of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for the current financial year, ending on 30th September, are' expected to amount to 1,130,000 yen at least, or 400,000 yew more than in the previous year, We are informed that Mr. Edward Sassvon, formerly of Shanghai, son of Sir Albert Sassoon, C.S.1., is engaged to be married to Aline, daughter of Baron Gustave de Rothschild of Paris. The marriage is to take place on the 19th of October.
The corrected readings of the thermometer in Shanghai for 7th/12th instant, compared with the same days in 1886, are as under:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.