4th December evntains notice of the, death at Anerley of Mra. Margaret Douglas Luid, aged 39 yenrs j: this refels, as many of wus. teaders: will regret to: hear, to Mrs. Adem Lind, wife of @ former agent of the P..& 0. Ca. at this port.
We have to thank the Rev. G. H. Fitz Randolph. for a copy of the Minutes of the 49th unnunl session of the. Seventh-Day Baptist Missionary Society, held at Westerly, Rhode Island, on August the 20th, 1891, together with the annual report of the Bourd of Managers. We gather from the report that " good deal of work is do: the Suciety #t.a very nuderate expense, though to most of us: it seems like trying to curry water in sieve ty work at persuading the world to change the day of rest to Saturday. We, however, here are more goneerned with the work done by the Shanghai branch of the Society, of which Mr. Fitz Randolph gives." long and interesting mvcount, There is a very appre-dative, notice of the Rev. D. H. Davis and Mrs, Davis, who returned to the States lust vene rifter eleven years of labour in China, xud.anuch sympathy is expressed with them in their loss of their daughter, who died at Nile, N.Y. on the 4th of July last, on her sixteenth birthday.
We have received " copy of the November number of Woman's Work in the Fur East, and" copy of the Seeger Guernsey Co.'s Cyclopedia of the Manu-Suctures and Mroducts of the United States, which.we hope to make more extended notice at un early date, The first three prizes in the Manila Lottery this month have fallen, according the telegram, to numbers 22,865; 5,911 12,221, Tu another e-lumn will be found an account of the sudden disappearance of steamer in sight of the Meifoo which was proceeding tu her assistance. Tt is fexred that thers are good grounds for believing that the vessel which foundered is the Namehow, which left Hongkong for Amoy on the 6th instant, but had not reached her destination up till Monday Inst, the 11th i She was thus considerably overdue and fears were entertained for her safety at Amy. Tt may be stated, however, that the description given of the steamer by Cuptain Lunt does not quite agree with the description of the Namchoro, which was formerly called the Vizen and also the Fatchoy, The Numchor, we are assured by two gentlemen who knew the vissd Well, had" cut-water, whereas Capt Lut says the vessel he saw had x str: stem, We xre also told that her were yellow and stone colour, while Captair Lunt says her deck house wis white, but is impossible to say what colour anything is, The Namchow was built by Richardson, at Wigham, in 1870 and was vived in Penang. She Was 1,109 tons nett register and 160 h.-p.
The water mark at Hankow on the 8th instant was & feet 9 inches; at. Hunter Island on the 9th, 10 feet; and at Olyphant Island 11 foet at the upper and 13 feet at the lower end.
Captain Williams, of the Changsha, who arrived here a few days ago from the A u_ colo he means of fifte n men and four boys—from alm leath. The Malays belonged to Kei Islands, where the people are excellent boat builders, and had een vit sume twenty-five days when they wore sighted by the Changsha-some 300 miles distant from their home and 130/ miles west -of Thursday island. Captain Williams took the Malays on board: and through a Malay servant ascertained that they had left their home with four prahus which they were taking to New Guinea to sell, but a gale had driven them out of their reckoning and they did not know where they were. Their provisions were all consumed though they still had a. few cncoanuts, and had caught some rain water. Capt. Williams found that the prahus were
abandoned and the Malays taken on to too slightly constructed t tow, 4 they were Port Darwin. Here the og Dutch Government arranged with Captain Williams to take them on to Amboyna: az they were Dutch subjects," guaraitecing that the steamer should net be delayed. He did so, and then proceeded on his voyage to Hongkong.
The Chintung is in the Old Doc, being overhauled and repaired.
The Saghalien, with the French mail, by left Singapore on Thursday (7th) at 4 p.m.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.