The German gaubest itis did not leave here till Friday Inst and will now only go far ug Chinkiang.
Captain Criedner, of the Mavie, has been in Shanghai trying to make arrangements to ise his ye-sel, which sank near Uhefuo on New Year's Eve.
The Belgic arrived at Yokohama on Thursday, and her American mail will probably come on by the next N.Y.K. steamer, due here on 19th instant.
The Poochi, having undergone her usual annual overhaul, went ov a short trial trip tu Halfway Point on Tuesday afternoon, and is now at Kinleeyuen on the loading berth fur Chefoo, The delay in the arrival of the C.P.S.S, Empress of China, says the Japan Herald, was due to the terrific gales encountered during the passage across, 'The report of Left the voyage may therefore be of interest icturia, 17th December, and arrived at Yokohama ud January,' experienced Jetrong head gales with heavy squalis at intervals with high mountainous sea ithout the passage; had to slow ship at times, The Oceanic and Empress ut India left Yokohamn on the 17th December. The former arrived at San Francisco and the Intter at Vancouver on the Slat ultimo, so that the Oceanic made the better time across Chihaya Maru, has been Hideyoshi Maru, coal steamer. has now a Japanese captain officers, Captain Hallstrom, her late commander, having been transferred to the Yoritomo Marwin place of Captain Murray, who is ashore owing to injuries he received after the vessel went ashore in the Yangtze.
Up to the 8th instant the steamer Somdetch Phra Nang had not arrived at Hongkuug. She was twenty-three days out from " Java port and had been eight days in company with the Hangchow before the lute bad weather came on. The Hong-chow arrived here yesterday in command of Captain Finlayson of the Newehroang, who was sent down to Hongkong to bring the Hangchow up, as Captain Arthur was laid up with fever contracted through hardships and exposure on board the vessel clu the bad weather on the voyage up fromdJi Captain Kents hay been transferred to the ungwo fron: the Fuhwo, the latter vessel being laid up.
Silk shipped per Kobe Maru from Shang-[hai on the 4th December, 1891, sent forward by Oceanic from Yokohama, arrived at_New York on the 7th instant.
The Lok-sang, @ steel screw 1,650 tous, with triple-expansion engines of 950-horse power, built by the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, Govan, to the order of Mr. W. Keswick, London, for the China trade, was launched on the Clyde. last November.
Captain Edwards, of the Zambesi, writes as follows as to' the calving of the Wetmore:—By the gale on the night of the 6th and day ut the 7th December, I was put out of my course to the southward. 20 miles. On the morning of the 8th, off Tilamook, I sighted what proved to be the 8.8. Charles Wetmore, flying urgent signals, I went to her and found she had lost her rudder, and after steaming round her for three hours and floating lines across her bow with buoys and fenders attached, T gave her a lee and she sent a boat for my small line and gave me her. hawser. Picking her up was most difficult owing to the heavy sea and my ship being ight that she would hardly -steer when going slow. I towed her ofthe bar about 5 p.m., but the sea being too heavy. no, pilot could come out, I held on to her and steame (about dead slow until next morn ing about 7 or 8, when her hawser parted in lier own chocks through the parcelling having chafed off. She then had a very arrow escape indeed. We had the breakers close under our lee before we got hold of her, entirely because they would insist upon us having their hawser and refus ing ours. We picked up x pilot about 2 p.m, and started to cross the bar, I, however ed upon his taking the. end of my hawser, in addition to his own, and then we started, A most frightful goa came over our stern and went right over the house, so high indeed was the sea that the Wetmore was twice vutirely biden feom view although I was standing on the,; bridge. She parted our hawser and pulled our two aft and one forward bollard out, but we managed: to yet her safely to As-tuna,—Hiogo News.
The Chanyon reports leaving the Swift and Wolf at Hxukow, the Peacock ut Wuhu, aul the Redpole and Iltis at Chinkinng.
The Sorachi Mary, which is advertised to leave this to-day for Kuba, and Yokohama, was formerly the Wyvern She is " steamer of 1,264 tons net and 160 nominal horse-power, built at Stockton in 1883, She is registered at Tokio, and owned by Mr. Tanaka Heihachi, for whom being run by the Nippon Yusen ko some interesting facts from the Lioya's Register returns of vessels totally lost, condemned, &c., for the quarter of Inst year. Great Britain and her colonies own considerably more than two-thirds of all the st; and the total numb quarter was 53, of which 30 were under the British ling tonnage of the world, ud her colonies own about 300, und the rest of the world about 5,500,000 tons. The total losses in the quarter amounted to 21,000 tons under the British flag, and 44,000 tons under all other flags. The total tonnage of the world according to Lloyd's Register Book, 1891-92, excluding vessels under 100 tons, comprised 11,900,000 tous under the British ting, and 9,500,000 tons under all other lags.
"Phe exact pupalation of Curen, says the lehi, is not known, owing tu no census having yet been taken in that country. A careful estimate made by " Europes resident there however. informs us that the area of the whole Kingdom is 82,000 square lies, 1,740 miles being coast. The popu-2,356,667 families, or 10,528,937 persons (5,216,614 females, and 6,312, 323 males).
The Japan Mail says that intelligence from Naovtsu, published in the vernacular papers, states that on no less than four occasions huge waves have broken on the west coast, involving the total destruction of sixty houses,
that the Jiyu remarks. that, although We learn from the Tepon Daily Herald nothing can be-said with certainty as to the elections, yet, judging -by present, appearances, there is pieepect of 200 members being returned by the Radicala alone. It ale" states that strict instructions have been issued by Viscount Shinagawa to the local Governors that vigorous efforts should be made, at the general elections, to oppose as much as possible the election of Liberal and Radical. members to the House of Representatives.
We are requested, says the Overland Mait, to state that the Peninsular and
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