kong from Canton shortly after ten o'clock Their Royal Highnesses arrived in Hong. on Friday morning and went straight from the steamer on board the Ancona, which left for Shanghai about noon. As the Ancona left the harbour, the men-of-war manied the yards, and the band on the Impériense played the National Anthem.
2 hearing of the Ancona-Kigpai collision case in the Vice-Admiralty Court, Hongkong, before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice, with Lieut. Lory, K.N., and Captain Seabury, as Assessors, was concluded on the Sth, judgment being reserved.
According to a telegram received on Monday. from Hongkong, with reference to the that both parties were to blame.
In reference to the recent naval manceuvres in Hongkong Brownie" writes that there are tales in circulation about a splendid piece of work performed by the Leander's men, viz., landing and scaling the cliffs to the south of Cape d' Aguilar, going by compass on a thick and dirty night across the hills to Sheko, lowering one another down ravines and_precipices, then stalking and capturing the officers, men and boats on guard in Sheko Bu and quietly rowing through the enemy's line in the morning in the captured boats, being taken for the real guard party that had been left originally in the Bay.
The memorial stone of the Union Church in Hongkong, which is being built on the new site in Kennedy Road, was laid on the 10th by the Rev. John Chalmera, LI. D.
The first business at the meeting of the Legislative Council of Hongkong on. the 9th instant was the following speech from the Acting Governor:—Gentlemen, before ding farewell to these shores, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught, desired me to inform this Council and indeed the public generally, that it was with great pleasure that he and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Connaught visited such an teresting portion of Her Majesty's Do-ions; and that they were hoti much gratified with the kind welcome accorded to them and everything that was, done to make their stay agreeable by all classes of the community. To His Royal Highness the reception he received was doubly gratifying, inasmuch ashe considered it as a further proof of that loyalty and that devation which this Colony has ever shown towards his royal mother, our Gracious Queen, to her subjects ever loving and by them ever beloved. (Applause).
The Saigon correspondent of the Daily Press writes as follows under date 28th March:—On Tuesday, 25th inst., there arrived in our harbour the Chinese gunboat Chay Yuan, belonging to the Chinese nor-them fleet, of which the other five vessels are at Cape St. James. The Chay Yuan has taken up her berth in the man-of-war anchorage, between the Alouette and the Fanfare. ' She exchanged the usual salute: on arrival, and a great number of Chinese assembled to see the vessel, apparently not a little pleased to see the flag of their nation flying on so fine a ship, The sailors of the Chay Yuan are five, tall fellows, and when they come onshore behave ina very orderly manner. The other five larger ships of the squadron, which are at Cape St. James, cannot come up to Saigon, because the man-of-war anchorage is very limited. In the evening the captain and officers of the Chay Yuan take drives in the town, accompanied by leading members of the Chinese community, who don their finest clothes for the occasion. The Chay Yuan is coaling now, and coal for the other shi has been sent' to Cape St. James by the Messageries Fluviales. To-morrow or the next day they all leave for Singapore. The Turkish frigate Brtwyrout is also at Cape St. James. Tt is uncertain whether she will come up to Saigon or not.
'The Daily Press has these two notes 'The Courrier d' Haiphong says that the Hon. J. J. Keswick, who recently paid a visit to the Hongay coal mines, accompanied by Mr. Taylor, was delighted with what he saw and left full of confidence in the future.—Mr. Henry Norman on the 20th March was at Janning, Upper Perak, on his way to Temoh, with Mr. W. Warren, the engineer. They had a train of twelve elephants to carry them—boys, interpreters, escort, stores, specie, etc. Mr. Bog-golo, the Magistrate of Upper Perak, was to accompany them as far as the mines. Mr. Norman expects to come out on the other side of the Peninsula and reach Singapore by the middle of May.
There is very little doubt in Tongking that Wing Fat-cheong, the compradore of the Messrs, Roque, was not killed by Luo ky, as reported, but was in league with him, and is now safe in Kuangtung, whither niost of the pirates have retired safely with their $50,000, and it is suggested that the French should apply to China for his extradition, Two of the pirates have, how ever, been caught by the French with some of the ransom silk in their possession, and summarily shot.
According to the Siam Mercantile Gazette of 29th March, the brief intelligence has been received from Chiengmai that the force of insurgents under Phya Phrap Song Kram has been repulsed by the troops of the Chief of Chiengmai, and that Phya Phrap has fallen back. No details of the encounter have yet come to Bangkok.
The programme submitted to the Labour Conference at Berlin was ultimately so reduced, that there is no wonder that the Conference did not last long, It will be seen that English legislation covers nearly the whole of it already Programme of the Deliberations of the International Conference respecting the regulation of work in industrial establishments and mines, REGULATION OF WORK IN MINES, —Shall the underground employment be prohibited of children below a certain age'?
of females 2.—Shall a imitation of the hours of labour be provided for in mines wherein the work is particularly prejudicial to health?
3.—Is it possible in the general interest to submit to an international regulation the work in collieries, so as to assure regularity in the output of coal?
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