El Tarik of Constantinople states that in consequence of events in Bulgaria, Russia has sent important messages to the Porte and the Great Powers which tend to nullify recent and impending events.—Straits Times.
M, Souhart has, according to the Chinese Times notes from Peking, been appointed Charge d' Affaires for France.
We hear from Peking that Yen, President of the Board of Revenue, has memorialised the Empress in strong terms against the Mitkiewicz contract and all the concessions, and his representations have had a great effect on the Court.
The Corean Prince Ming Yung Tk arrived here on Wednesday from Chefoo in the Kowshing.
The Corean Embassy offered their felix citations, and the usual presents to the Emperor on his birthday, the 17th ult, The Foreign Office has, by a letter, conveyed, through the Consul, Her Majesty's thanks to the community of Amoy for the loyal telegram sent on the 21st June.
The Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank made a statement with regard to allegations of lis deulings in. shares which the shareholders of the Bank received with satisfaction at the meeting on Saturday. His colleagues at the Board had Previously, had full explanation offered to them by their Chairman, and considered the attack made upon him most unjust and unfounded. But the rumours referred to by the Chairman and other speakers did not originate in the north; they came from the south—that however is a detail and merely mentioned to correct the impression which readers might derive from the Chairman's explanation. Mr. Grote said that he had never made a single transaction in bank stock on his own account, and that in the last five months his firm had only suld 95 shares, Mr. Ryrie backed Mr. Grote up in the most thorough manner; but he rather impaired the effect of his speech by asserting that it was only when people come to put their money in wild-cat schemes, that there is a great risk and often great losses. There have been Bank shares; are we to infer that Mr.
yeat risks and great losses in Hongkong yue considers the bank a ' wild-cat scheme"? Mr, Ryrie's proposition of a vote of sympathy with Mr. Grote—rather an unhappy sugyestion—was turned by Mr. Fraser-Smith into a vote of thanks, ''to shew the people of Shanghai that whatever they may think, Hongkong at least has confidence—whatever mistakes may have deen made by the Board—in the management of the Corporation." Mr. Bell-Inving stated that the Chines Times is in no way "subsidised by his firm, being the property of a private company." The meet~ tug was unanimous in its approval of every-
'The China Mail endeavours to controvert the Chinese Time? recent article on the Airectorate of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and our own remarks on the article.' "Several of these statements," it says, must, we feel convinced, have been based upon tremendous misconceptions, and we are unable to com. prehend how our Tientsin and Shanghai contemporaries could have seen fit to have given them publicity without more carefully sifting the peck of rumour from the grai of fact." It will be noticed that the Mail does not say that the statements there, but only that they must have been" based upon misconceptions. This appears tous a somewhat weak defence, but in what it goes on to say, the Mail gives away its own case altogether, and virtually concedes the truth of all that we and our northern contemporary advanced. Its clients can hardly be very grateful to it for hose paragraphs -—Directors, of, companies hold stock, and are sometimes very
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