Maitland trid Ram played in the matches against Shanghai in 1889, It is reported that orders have. been received to sell the materials composing the old Custom House so that the site may be used for the new building.
Owing to the inclemency of the weather on Saturday, the intended yacht races and cricket: matches were all postponed. close to Shotghai was repaired on Wednes-The telegraph cable which was broken
day night, and the Store Nordiske leaves this morning to repair the damage to the exile near Amoy.
The September number of The Child's Puper, issued here by the Chinese Rel Tract Society, printed at the Presby Mission Press, and costing $0.13 a year, fully up to its predecessors, containing, among much other matter, some very fait engravings of Jeddah and the mosque at It is nounced that a Chinese daily newspaper, the Hanpao, is to ace the light for the first time at Hankow on or about the first proximo, It is to be edited by '"'experienced native scholars, and foreigners versed in the Chi standing which it will be sold lower Thi price than any other Chinese paper The August number of the Chinese Illustrated News, which has just reached uns, containa several woodcuts of varying it, and much good and appropriate is printed at the Presbyte for the Chinese Religious Tract Society, and ousts only 25 cents a year for one copy monthly, or $2 for ten copies monthly a year.
A parcel containing silk belonging to a person unknown. is lying at the LP. 0.
came up from Ningpo in the Kiangteen on the 22nd instant to be forwarded by the Japanese Post: Office, As it la not prepaid that office will not forward it. The owner can obtain it ov describing the address, etc.
The British Post Ofice otticials musttind it dificult sometimes to discover people owing to the moageeness of the addresses on the they are not often at fault, eon shown an envelope which was posted in England; ion to the ad-resee's name it has on it simply the words Brondway, it was delivered in Shanghat without delay.
The silk ex Parthia which left Shanghai on the 25th July arrived in New York on the 20th instant in the fast time of 26 days, which we believe makes the record of silk delivery from this to New ork.
The Sea Swallow came out of Tungkadoo Dock on Saturday.
Silk shipped per Saikio Maru from Shanghai on 16th July and sent on by the Oceanic from Yokohama on the 25th idem, arrived at New York on the 20th instant.
The Canadian Pacific chartered steamer Parthia lett Vancouver on the 20th instant and is due here on 6th September.
'The Sydney, with the French mail, left Hongkong at' 3 p.m, on Wednesday for Shanghai The. Cathay, with the incoming English mail, left Singapore at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. for Hongkong and Shanghai instant for Hongkong and Shanghai.
The Moyune left Singapore on the 25th The Frouch man-of-war Inconstant returned to Shanghai on Wednesday from the River Ports.
'A runaway pony yesterday afternoon did about ae much damage as an animal could do in so short a time. The animal was annoyed by a. fly and bolted from Hongkong Road. Tt continued its career along Kiangse Road, up Foochow Road, to Honan Road, where it was stopped.' By this time. it-had smashed its own carriage and snather, knocked the: wheel offs. Doctor's brougham, overturned two jinricshas, and concluded by running over a Chinese boy, whose injuries are being attended to in' the Shantung Road Hospital.
Our neighbours in Tongking obtain useful lesson in the art of pacifying a country since te British annexation. The Chief by studying the history of Upper Burma
Commissioner in his recent report waxes very enthusiastic; and he has good reason, for, except in Bhamo, the Ruby Mines. and the UpperChindwin, every district in Upper of Burma shows a large decrease in violent crime, the fall in the province generally being 71 per cent., a figure which will probably considerably surbase the expectation of any reasonable man. The decrease in crime of the worst class was even more remarkablein proportion. While murders of all kinds decreased 56 per cent. murders by robbers and dacoits decreased 74 per \d while robbery decreased 45 per dacoity decreased 82 per cent. "These statistics,' Sir Alexander Mackenzie very justly remarks, form a conclusive proof of the completeness and thoroughness with which Upper Burma proper has been pacified.'—China Mail.
We have received Hongkong papers with advices to the 18th instant:—It is stated that Mr. Reuben Gubbay has been formally betrothed to the daughter of Baron Poliakoff, " wealthy broker of Moscow.—first meeting of creditors in Russell Co.'s bankruptey was held before the Deputy Registrar on the 15th, Mr. Shewan was proposed as Creditors' Assignee, and the meeting was adjourned for a week.—The Hongkong Telegraph says that a a light is to be erected on Waglan, that on Cape D'Aguilar will not be wanted, and suggests that it should be removed to Pedro Blanco.—The same paper. says that the closing of the gambling houses at Kowloon is a myth.—A collision took place near Whampoa on the 14th between the Chinese Cruiser Chopsai and the British (Chinese-owned) steamer Taian, Damage to the amount of about $500 was done, and the Chinese purser of the Taian broke his leg in trying to jump overboard.—The Re-Paltyear ending 30th June is published, rt of the Steam Launch Ca., Ld., for the
The working account shows a net profit of $4,116.30, andthe directors propose to pay a dividend of 3%.—A gunner name Weston, in the Chinese Revenue se1 went out in a dinghy and killed himself with a revolver, on the 15th. He has left a widow and child in Hongkong.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 20th instant.—H.M.S. Tweed, after sinking a third time in deep water on the 18th, has been finally raised and towed to the patent slip at Hungham for repairs. When the Criminal Sessions were opened at the Supreme Court on the 18th, there were no prisoners for trial.—Official trial trips of the Bassac, the new light-draft steamer for the navigation of the Upper Meikong, were to be made at Saigon on the 7th and 8th inst.—The report and accounts of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Ca., La., for the half-year ended 30th June last are published. 'The net profit, including balance brought forward, and after paying directors' and auditors' fees, is 232,040.68, out of which the directors propose to pay a dividend to shareholders of 7 per cent., to give a bonus of $10,000 to contributing shareholders, and the same sum to the foreign staff, to write off $30,000 from the value of Kowloon, and $20,000 from Aberdeen, and to carry forward $52,665,68.—The China Mail notices a 1,250,000, among all the shareholders it ition to divide the reserve fund,
the Hongkong Land Investment Company.
Wereceived Hongkongpaperson Wednesday with dates to the lst inst.—A London malaga of at Jy mae ha he pares telegram of 2ist July says that the parents
at the story that she has been married to Mr. Bellew, which is "a wicked and malicious invention, without the shadow: of foundation,"—At the instance of the five banks doing business in Hongkong, Sir James Russell, Chief Justice, made an order on the 20th for notice to be served on Messrs. J. M. Forbes, Hou-qua, and Creasy Owens, tu show cause on the 28th why they should not be restrained from selling Russell & Co.'s property in. Hongkong, and also for restraining the sale. The banks had obtained judgment against Ronsll & Ca. forthe amounts respectively $227,568, $27,239, $12,208, $18,548, and $32,973,—At an inquest held on the 20th on the body of Mr. Weston, of the Customs, the magistrate returned a verdict of death caused by a self-inflicted wound. Mr. MacLeavy Brown gave the deceased a very good character, and it appeared that
Amoy correspondent of the Telegraph men-bad money in. the Savings Bank.—The tions the death there on the 13th of Mr, H. D. Brown, formerly secretary of tue Amoy Dock Company.
We received Hongkong pers yesterday to the 29ud inst—The Wolf arrived. at Hongkong from Amoy on the 21st.—In the earthquake at Manila in July, 1880, the Church of St. Sebastian was destroyed. An iron Gothic church, painted to look like stone, has been got out. from Belgium in $189,858, the iting and decoration bringing ieees, and erected to replace it. It cost
the total cost to $200,000.—The Johann. was expected in Hongkong in afew days with cargo of coal from Tourane, the mines there having got ahead of the Charbonnages Co,—When the Tweed was placed on the slip at Hungham, it was found that a portion of her bottom on the starboard side was torn out, the engines and boilers badly damaged, and the propeller missing.—I+ is atated, according to the Hongkong Telegraph, that the man Weston, who lately committed suicide, left his launch with the deliberate intention of shooting Mr. McLeavy Brown.—The Daily Press says:—The income from Customs receipts and farms in Cochin-China during the year 1890 amounted to $4,733,281, being $62,132 less than the estimate, "The opium' duty amounted to $1,645,992, and the export duty on rice to $1,300,760.
The Courrier d Haiphong gives an account of a court-martial lately held at Lille, the result of wi illustrates the official view of the French protectorate of Tunis. A soldier named Feuillette married, with full permission, a girl living in Algeria, He was stationed at Arras in 1884, and obtained thirty days' leave to visit his wife and child, Arrived at Bona, he found them both ill, and asked for a' prolongation of his Teave that he might remain with them. This being refused, instead of rejoining his corps, he went to Bizerta in Tunis, where he found employment. Some three months ago he was arrested at Bizerta by some French gendarmes, and sent to Lille to be tried by court-martial as a deserter. His counsel argued that the arrest was illegal, as Tunis though under and desertion is not included in. ay French protection is a foreign country,
extradition treaty, " French soldiers forming part of the army of occupation in Tunis, who desert, are prosecuted and condemned as deserters abroad, which [ated that Tunis is not French soil."
notwithstanding the concluding speech of the government advocate, the court-martial, in a strongly-worded judgment, declared the arrest of Feuillette to be illegal and arbitrary, absolved him from the cost of the prosecution, and ordered that he should be sent back to Bizerta.
From the Rising Suu of the 19th inst. we learn that it was the Captain, the tive officers, and the saloon steward of thi steamer Lennox that were attacked with cholera, and it is therefore thought that there must have been something wrong with the food at the saloon table. Captain Swinnerton died: the others were all taken to the hospital at Nagasaki, and were recovering. The ship was. disinfected.—Captain C. Olsen, late chief officer of the
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