Collin de Plancy, French Consul; 1. Marting, Brazilian Consul-Gen Captain Tonquidres of the Aspic, and Mr. Keawick, Mi of whom, as well as many other gentle. men present, took part in the ceremony of ig the prizs-winnera with victorious annual general meeting of the China Shipowners' As tion held at the office of Messre. Morris & Ca. on Tacsday at 4 p.m., the Directors' Report and Accounts for the year ending the Slst March, 1885, were passed as presented. Messrs. Joh Morris, W. M. Primrose and Jas. Simpson were elected Directors for the present At a meeting of the shareholders of the Indo-China Steamship Company whi held "in London on 29th June, a di of 3 per cent. was declared.
The Right Rev. Bishop Moule left Hangchow on Tuesday, and is expected to arrive here during the present week.
Sunday last being Coronation Day, all the men-of-war in port were decorated with their flags in honour of the occasion.
Nagasaki appears to have a good deal more Tain at one time than we have had here, for according to the meteorological record no less thas 5°34 inches of rain fell in the twelve hours previous to 10 a.m, on Tuesday, and a further fall of 2.45 inches in the twelve hours preceding 10 a.m, on Wednesday.
Japan is suffering from floods as well as China, The native papers give an account of one which, the Hiogo News says, is the most serious calamity of the kind which has occurred for many years. Our contemporary says:—A considerable portion on the area under water may be seen from the railway carriages as the train passos between Osaka and Kioto, and a better iden can thus be obtained' of the damage sustained than will be derived from any mere description. The damage done to crops is estimated at about one million yen, ® sum supposed to be rather under than over the mark, It appears that entire rape-seed crop of the dis-een altogether ruined.
of it was cut and stacked when river banks hurt, and the wretched owners were going about in boats on Sunday last gathering the sodden rom-nauts out of the water. The liberal ance accorded to their suffering neighbours by the people of Osaka is the one feature in this sad calamity which it is possible to regard with pleasure, And indeed the farmers in this pact of the Empire have much need of aid, for the past few years have been very trying. Drought and bad ices for crops reduced in quantity bore heavily upon them. A disastrous flood has now come to complete the ruin of what was once perhaps the most prosperous portion of the rich and fertile Ca On the 19th ments in Manda-gon gon could no longer resist the unusual pressure, and burst la several places, 'The farms submerged in Manda-gon alone ex tent over 2,500 cho, and the crops destroyed are estimated' at over 80,000 koku. Prompt steps were at once taken by the authorities to repair the breaks in the embankments, but the work proved extremely difficult of accom! of the authorities avert further damage to the seem to have been successful, Worship K'o, the newly appointed magistrate of the Blixed Court, sat for the first time on Tuesday morning, Mr, W. 8. Kmens, U.S. Asseasor, sitting with him, The new magistrate other dark plexioned mau, with a somewhat moustache for" Chinaman, His features are not of a very patrician cast; but ho appears to be a man of considerable energy:
character. His official button la dat blue, like that of his predecessor Huang. The cases brought before his Worship for adjudication on Tuesday wore all of a petty character; but he entered into them with a minuteness which we are afraid ho will not exhibit when the work is less new to him. He cross-questioned the prisoners and lectured them on the enormity of their conduct in a powerful and commanding voice; but he seemed to be rather addicted to a fault which sometimes character the learned Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court—a tendency to talk too much and listen too little, What little conversation took place between himself and the Assessor appeared to be conducted in amicable and courteous terms, Mr. K'o ant alone on the bench on Wednesday, Mr. Giles, the British Assessor, not appearing.
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