Berlin, 16th September.
Prince Bismarck has refused Imperial protection to enable a German company to exercise rights over Damaraland, saying that it is no part of Germany's policy to employ military force to break the opposition of native chiefs to German enterprises in distant countries.
The average minimum of the thermometer in the settlement in September was 67°.67, the average maximum 79°.6 and the mean 73°.64, against 69°.02, 84°.4 and 76°.7 respectively in September 1888, The rainfall in September this year amounted to 5.49 inches, and the number of days on which rain fell measurably was 13, against 09 inches and 6 days in September, 1888, and an average of 5.79 inches and 10 days for the seven years 1882-1888. The last occasion on which we suffered from thirteen continuous days' rain was in June 1885, Saturday's weather report: The baron meter is rising at Sicawei since yesterday at night, but its movements are so irregular and agitated that it is difficult to forecast it was falling at Foochow and Amoy, and rising x falling. On Friday afternoon during the whole of the day in Japan, Unsettled weather still prevails. The centre of the present disturbance appear to be in the south, but its exact. situation is unknown.—On Sunday at 10 a.m. it read as follows:—On Saturday the barometer was falling slowly at the southern stations, with light variable winds along the coast, and there was a rapid fall of the barometer at Tokio with calm weather, 'A gale is expected on the east coast of Japan. On Sunday morning the barometer has continued to rise rapidly at Sicawei, and it has already reached its normal height.—At 10 a.m. on Monday it read: On Sunday the barometer was rapidly rising at Nagasaki and Foochow, but remained steady at the other stations, This (Monday) morning the barometer is very high at Sicawei reaching 768 min. (30.24). Probably this high barometric pressure will extend all over the China coast and south of Japan, and the weather will be fair, and strong N.E. winds may possibly prevail along the coast, especially in the Formosa channel.—Tuesday's weather report: The baron meter remains very high at Sicawei, with a slight tendency to fall. Yesterday it was rising quickly at the southern ports. An area of high barometer is now extending over the China coast and Southern Japan. Light E. or S.E. winds are probable to the south and W. or S.W. winds to the north of Shanghai.—On Wednesday it rea The fall of barometer which was beginning yesterday morning became a rather quick fall in the afternoon and still now keeps on. The same fall may be expected at the southern stations and in Japan. It is still uncertain whether a low barometric pressure is coming from W. and approaching Shavghai.—At 10 a.m. yesterday it read as follows:—Yesterday the baron meter was falling quickly at Foochow and Amoy, and slightly at Hongkong and
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