TheStraits Government have again shown the same want of consideration displayed on the last occasion when they enforced quarantine against this port. The Indo-hina Wingsang, bound for Straits and Calcutta, took some 500 Chinese passengers from here, and on arrival at Singapore had case of plague on board, and the passengers were accordingly landed on an island and quarantined. This seems to have 80 scared the Singapore authorities that, when the Hongkong Government telegraphed at the instance of the Chamber of Commerce, to ask that steamers not carrying Chinese passengers might be exempted, Choy. wired ack that exemptions would be in the discretion of the Health Officer according to risk run.
MMUSSIONARY CENTENARY MEETING, not often large missionary meetings are held in Hongkong, but one was con-yened on the 4th inst, at the City Hall to commemorate a great occasion in mission annals, viz, the centenary of the London Missionary Society. The Acting Chief-Justice (Hon. W. M. Goodman) presided, and in a highly appreciative speech bore testimony to the splendid work done as poe of civilisation as well as of religion missionaries belonging to this body, instancing Nott and John Williams in the South Seas, Moffat and Livingstone in Africa, and Drs. Legge and Morrison in China. He might well have added Ellis, the apostle of Madagascar. Bishop Burdon, in an excellent speech, moved a resolution congratulating the Society on having completed oh years of useful work.
various other speakers followed.
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