Tux Peking and Tientsin Times gives the actual facts of H.E. Li's "trespass." It says—"*Some one suggested to the Chung. tang a walk in the palace garden near his lodgings, and he innocently fell in with the proposal. He was carried in his court chair through an unfrequented part. of the park, and received obsequious attentions from the keepers and palace eunuchs; not a word of objection did he hear. The next day he was informed thathe had committed a breach of etiquette and would have to be disciplined." Tt appears that the great Viceroy Tso Tsung-tang was fined half a year's salary some years ago for a similar offence.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 30th ult.—Another rice mill was burnt down at Cholon, Saigon, on the 10th. The loss is $90,000, covered by insurance.—The Straits Times says that Martin Bros. of Glasgow, and Martin, Greig & Ca. of Java have suspended payment.—The As struck on a rock near Chantaboon, with the French Minister to Siam and his family on board, but was able to continue her voyage.—It is reported that the celebrated Philippine painter, Sr. Luna, has been shot at Manila as a rebel.—The police have found on Stonecutters' Island the naked body of a man who was murdered by pirates off Green Island.—A duel at Tayenquang, tongking, recently had the in the doeniv clu Tonkin, being wounded, unexampled result of Dt. Remery, a writer
is feared fatally, by his adversary, M. Wiens.—Captain Bigge, of H.M.S. Pique, has been invalided-——'The Chittagong is reported to have got off undamaged.—The report of the directors of Dakin, Cruikshank & Ca. for 1895, issued on the 27th ult., shows a debit. balance of profit and loss account of $63,946, being nearly $50,000 more than the previous year.—At Singapore bicycles and tricycles are to be taxed $2 a year.—The. & O. premises at Garden Reach, Cal-cutty have been sold to the Bengal-Nagpore Railway for 5 lacs of rupees.—The ' Ben-hertz" suits of the captain and officers and crew against the steamer Ningchow were Bourton the doth ut Me McKinley, heard in the Hongkong Admiralty
in the employ of the Hongkong Electric Ca:, was arrested on the 29th ult. on an extraordinary charge. It is alleged that, having a grudge against Mr. Raymond, the second officer of the steamer Hanoi which runs between Hongkong and Haiphong, he gave the latter a letter from Mr. Farmer, and parcel supposed to contain photographic plates, but really containing opium, to deliver Consul at Hongkong and informed him Haiphong, He then went to the French that Raymond was smuggling opium into Haiphong. The French Consul telegraphed to Haiphong, and on the arrival of the steamer there Raymond was arrested, imrisened for five days, and made to pay a of $600. The letter was a forgery, and it is on this charge that McKinley has been arrested.—The Blue Funnel line will at the end of this year give up carrying passengers on their main line steamers between London and the Far East.
Tue Foochow Echo of the 24th ult. says guns at the Diengnongsang fort on the The reported bursting of one of the large opposite side of the river to Kwangtow proves unfortunately to be correct. The predecessor of the present oticer in charge, Tang Kung-sing by name, had long wished to try how the native powder and shot would suit these German guns but he left before carrying out the experiment. The present oticer in charge, Ko Ku-dong, more enterprising, had some practising on Saturday last at noon, and commanded his men to make the trial of the Foochow made charge. Two guns were in position side by side. The first was discharged quite safely and the target was struck, but unfortunately the second on being fired burst, and some of the pieces were carried long distances eff. One of the men standing close by was literally blown to pieces, three others were killed on the spot, and eleven others received very severe injuries. ight of the survivers were brought up to the Foochow Native Hospital." Of these, two have since died and although it is hoped the others behold, one of them fas a log broken. will recover they are pitiable objects to
Poor men We have received Corea and Japan papers with dates from Seoul to the 22nd, yokohama the 27th, Kobe the 29th, and Nagasaki the 31st ult.—Corean cadets are making rapid and most satisfactory progress in their drill, which is in Russian, under the charge of Lieut. Hmeloff.—The Russian Minister at Seoul keeps a fire engine and trained firemen at the Legation for the use of the public.—The rice cro} in Corea is very good this year.—Mr. an Mrs, Jordan arrived at Seoul on the ith.—M. Gaillard of Shanghai is about to erect a first-class hotel at Seoul.—The Independent says that the Protestant missionaries in Corea have held aloof from political entanglements, and have eliminated the Corean word for "influence" from their working vocabulary, and they are unwaveringly loyal to the king.—Three thousand Japanese ruffians attacked the Oshima district office, and four policemen were wounded.—In the inquest on Mr. J.T. Boag, who was found dead in his bed at Yokohama on the 20th, the jury found that he shot himself while of unsound mind.—The American bark Sonoma, for Vladivostock, went on shore near the Tsuru; Straits,' but got off after discharging 7 tons of flour, and was got into Hakodate.—Count Okuma will make no changes in the Japanese Corps Diplomatique.—It is not expected that the water in Lake Biwa will subside this year.—An inquest was held at Yokohama on the 2th into the death of Mr. W. R. H. Carew, late Secretary of the Yokohama United Club, who died in the Hospital on the 22nd. 'It appeared that his death was due to his having taken a large quantity of arsenic without his doctor's knowledge, and the circumstances "were; so suspicious that the inquest was adjourned for a report from Professor Divers on the deceased's viscera.—Mr. C. F. Hooper, of Jardines, died at Kobe on the 22nd, aged 64.—It appears that it was financial not physical suicide that Mr. Ichida of Osaka tried to compass.—Kobe beat Yokohama in both Basel matches.—A French company reposes to run a regular line of steamers tween Dunkirk and Vladivostock, and a fast line of steamers is to be put on between San Francisco and Vladivostock.—The Tamahime Maru,'stranded at Naoyetsu, was formerly the Sarpedon.—The Club Hotel at Yokohama is not to be reconstructed.—The Japan Mail has a telegram from Hakodate, dated the 26th ult., stating that H.M.S. dus was despatched on the 24th to look for H.M.S. Plover, which was overdue from Robben Island.—Two Portuguese have made a haul of some $16,000 in Formosa by sel drafts on a non-existing Bank at Amoy. Mr. Joseph Berrick, who came to Yokohama in 1872, and went home in 1891 with a fortune, died at Yokohama on the 26th while on a visit, aged 49.—The Loochoo Islanders want China to take them under her protection again.—General Nogi, the new Governor-General of Formosa, was to leave Tokio on the 29th for his post.—The Ewperor was to attend the autumn meeting of the Nippon Race Club on the 29th ult.—The raising of the wreck of the Chinese cruiser Weiywen at Weihaiwei has been completed.—The Chinese Consulates at the open ports in Japan are about to be re-opened.—H.M.S. Centurion leaves Nagasaki to-day for Amoy.—The Kobe Chronicle has the following telegram of the 20th ult, from Tokio:—"'The new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation having been concluded between Japan and China, the Chinese Government, it is said, has issued an instruction to the Governors of the localities having jurisdiction at the open orts directing them to give every possible assistance to the Japanese Consuls in the selection of sites for the Japanese settlements, The Regulations adopted by the Chinese Government relating to the steam navigation between Soochow and Shanghai and other places are to be abolished and new ones adopted after consultation with the Japanese Consul. The Governors shall not be allowed to interfere with the police affairs in the Japanese settlements at the ports newly opened by the Shimonoseki treaty, and no soldiers shall be allowed to cross the boundary at Weihaiwei fixed for the purpose of preventing trouble between the armies of the two countries stationed there."—A large number of applications for patent rights are ready to be put in when the new German treaty comes into force.—The Tamahime Maru, stranded at Naoyetsu, has been abandoned by her crew.—A charter has been granted at Tokio to the Formosan Railway Ca., for the construction of railways in Formosa.—H.M.S. Swift has made a very successful trial trip after completing her repairs at Nagasaki.—H.MS. Plates has gone to the Solomon. Islands to investigate the outrage recently committed on the Austrian scientific expedition.
Exour days ago, says the Hiogo News of the 27th ult., two apprentices of the German ship Peter Rickmers managed to provision and make off with one of the ship's boats; until this morning nothing more was heard of them. Now, however, the, boat has mysteriously reappeared ab the hatoba, the fore part painted a slate colour—presumably an intended disguise. At present nobody confesses to the slightest knowledge of how it came. There is still no trace of the two truants, except for a letter, found in the boat, addressed to the mate, stating their intention of going by junk' to Nagasaki. This may or may not a ruse for baffling pursuit. The youngsters are on their first voyage with the ship no reason for their escapade is given.
Tue French Government does its best to foster French trade with the South of China, as the following letter recently addressed by the Minister of Commerce and Industry to the Presidents of the French Chambers of Commerce shows "*Mr. President,
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