The Kiangsi men and the Tingchow men of Fukien who were in league with the Kolao Secret Society terrorizing the natives of the Yen-ping Prefecture in the latter Province, sacking Liki offices and yamens, burning people's houses, and behaving Geen completely routed and dispersed by generally very like organised rebels, have
the large body of troops sent against them by the Viceroy of Fouchow. There was a short engagement, in which one of the out-Jaws was killed, and one Imperialist soldier. Twenty men wore captured, and by the Viceroy's commands, (solicited by' teleraph), decapitated' immediately.—Shén Pav. ted cannibalism has occurred at Pao Shan The Hu Peossys ahorrble exseofattemp-Hien only some tens of li from Shanghai. Phere, is a benevolent institution called the Ch'ung-shen T'ang, which foods and educates pauper children, A proprietor of some public baths was either attacked by homicidal mania, or possessed by a superstition that to eat a child would cure him of an illness from which he was suffering. He bought from an old woman a child which was being taken to the Ch'ung-shen Tang, and hired a Hupeh man to kill it. The murdered child was discovered by a man employed by the bath-proprietor, de-
murder have been arrested. he benton concerned in this extraordinary posited ina large jar ready for cooking.
The Hupao says:—There are gold mines in Manchuria which may give a better account of themselves than any of our coal or iron mines, Some of the latter, as for instance the Ch'ih-chow ({¢HH) mines of Anhui, and the Sit-chow (Of) mines of Kiangsu, have so far been anything but a success, owing to difficulties of transporting the mineral to the places where it is required. But for gold there is a good market everywhere, and all that is brought out of the earth is sold immediately and on the spot. What has stood in the way of successful gold-mining in China, is want of method. The Pting-tu (48)¥) gold mines on the Shantung Promontory eniploy atour 10,000 persons; and the working expenses are Tls. 800 a day; but the output daily is only 3 ounces of gold. But we are pleased to chronicle the existence of a very diferent state of things at the Amur gold mines. When Prefect Li assumed the direction six months ago, the working of these mines was commenced with sudden and wonderful energy, and a subsidiary mine was opened at K'i-kan Ho (4 RE). Here where the gold brigands had worked at their forbidden mines before they were so disastrously scattered by the Chinese Government troops, gold mining is now actively proceeding under the sanction and encouragement of the Government. At first the output was very small, but it has since so increased, that during' the last 10 days of the third noon (20-29th April 1889) the joint production of both mines was between 50 and 60 ounces of gold dust. There are from 500 to 600 miners employed, and each is finding now about a tenth of an ounce of gold every day; and it is expected that before many more months there will be 3,000 miners working there, and producing 300 ounces of yolda day. Happy shareholders These mines of Hei-lung Kiang (#2 AEZL) lie near the frontier between that Province and the Russian Amur territory. There are the Tung Kin Shan (R11) and the Si Kin Shan (B] BIL} worthy of being named beside the California of the Americans and the Australia of the British which are connmonly, called by us, respectively, (HAW and HEU), Kiu Kin Shan and Sin Kin Shan, the Old and New Gold-fields. Here stretches a gold vein of 400 to 500 Ni long, which if properly worked will yield us incalculable wealth, and is now only waiting for capitalists to come forward to supply the working capital. It must be confessed that the way these mines were managed before Prefect Li came along was anything but reassuring to investors but now we may hope that more confidence will be felt, and that these noble mines may be properly developed.
According to the Ist Clause of the Rus-'Treaty, the range of hills called the (MRM Wing An Ling) separates our territory from the Russia, the gold country of Tung Kin Shan lying to the South and that of Si Kin Shan or Moh Ho to the North of that range. The mines under Prefect Li's superintendence are on those mountains, some 70 or 80 li from Moh Ho. All provisions for the mines must be imported ud from Ai-hun (otherwise exiled Saghalin Via, or Black iver"), a distance of 1,500' li through Moh Ho, passing Russian territory on their way. Prefect Li intends to effect a reform in this respect, and partly by the employment of steamers and partly by opening of new roads, to render it possible to bring from Ching everything necessary for the proper working of the mines and the supply of the personnel with provisions, without the aid of Russian roads.—H Pao. where he soon died of humiliation and chagrin, The old man's wife also left. this world in disgust on 3rd June; and to bury her in style, the filial son, the petitioner, had had to part with his third younger sister,—whose purchasers paid the Price like honest people!—Hu Pao.
We hear that certain tigers, lions, a largo bear, and monkeys of various kinds, have been sold by Chiarini's Circus to the great garden at Yangtzepoo (on the way to Woosung), and that last Saturday the U.S. Consul-Gieneral decided the price. It was decided also to engage the services of the lion-tamer, Mr. Frame, on a monthly salary, to take care of these animals, Wolves appear to have made their appearance in the north-west of Fukien, a province where they were not known before. Several children are reported as having been carried away and eaten by these beasts. The people call them wild dogs, but from the description given of their appearance they must be wolves. They are said to rush at people and plant paw on their shoulder, and on the person attacked looking round they seize him by the throat with their long teeth and strangle him. When they howl, they lower their heads to earth, which gives the howl a hollow and reverberating sound, and at night their cry is taken for that of a tiger.—Shén Pao.
The Governor of Kiangsi, Teh Hing, has received, at Nan-ch'ang Fu, the capital, despatch' from Foochow stating that there are 7,000 to 8,000 men, members of the Kolao secret society, ab Kiu-lung and also a telegram' from the Vicervy at Nanking to the sane effect. 'The Governor has sent Yen Ta tenant, to Fukien to get information about this threatening assemblage, As Kiu-lung Shan is in the Shan-ch'ang Hien, in the Yenping Prefecture, Fukien, and asthe recent fighting took place in' the Shun-ch'ang District, we judge that these Kolaos ave in league with the Kiangsi and Ting-chow melt, who have been lording it on the upper reaches of the Min River lately with a flotilla of 1,000 war-boats, (called © Cock boats" from their curved shape), and why
ment at. the hands of the large force have lately sustained such, severe punish-against them by Pien, Viceroy of Fukien and Chekiang, after which twenty of them who had been made prisoners by the Government troops, were at once decapitated. The Goveriment of Fukien comniunicated with the neighbouring province, sv that measures might be taken to prevent these banditti from dodging into it when hard pressed by the troops of the Foochuw Government.
The row at Hankow had no connection Wang Chi-chun, Provincial Judge of Kuangtung, determined to give all who seek for justice a chance of being heard, has had a tall box fixed at his yamen gate, three feet high by four inches broad, with a slit at the top into which any one who likes may drop a petition. "The good Fudge unlocks it himself night and morning and reads these ap On 23rd June, stranger from another province, in mourning dress and shoes of sack-cloth, dropped in a petition with such a tragic air that the bystanders curiously enquired what was his grievance, and heard the following story Wg at Canton with his el father and his own family to wait for offcial employment, he had had to wait so long for it that they all were beginning to die of hunger, and he had been obliged to sell his second younger sister to raise the wind. The price agreed upon was $60, and the purchasers, who lived in Kiu-tsang lane, paid, it is true, an advance of $6, and the deed of sale was duly made out and handed to them; but on his applying later for the balance of $54, they pretended they had not the honour of his acquait
ing to the law to have the wrong redressed, tance; and the seller's old father, on apply-was clapped into the City Magistrate's jail, is movement, but it points the same that at present there are a number of dangerous people about looking out for a chance of fishing in troubled water, and that our Government must, be more than ever on their guard. The first telegrams received from foreign sources were very vague and indefinite, Chinese merchants have now news that there were about 10,000 people, more than half of whom pete avowedly "unemployed" tramps and loafers, who announced their intention of "helping the students," but were really on the look-out for a chance of pillage, The condition of the people in Honan and Shantung is also such as might have been expected to produce calamitous results to their neighbours; but we imagine from the docility and submission these rough people are showing that they have had their consciences deeply stirred by the noble efforts made by their fellow-men to alleviate their sufferings.—Krom leader, Shen Pao, 9th July.
A letter from Ichang says:—The new opium crop is on the market. Of the seven "Chow" or Hien" districts of the Ichang Prefecture, Tung-hu, (the Hien which includes the Prefectural city of Ichang), makes a poor show, but the other districts
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