Resident to Corea, arrived here on nesday, in the Saikio Maru, and left for Europe by the Yangtséon Saturday morning Among the passengers who arrived hero on Friday last by the Sydney were H. Lemaire, French Minister to Peking, and H. E. Lord Li, Chinese Minister to Japan.
he Russian Minister to China, Count Cas-i, left the Sydney at Kobe.
op Hofman, the newly consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Shar rived river ports by the Kiangyit on Saturday.
ptain (late Admiral) W. M. Long, R.N., has been appointed to the command of M.S, Cleopatra, telegram has been received here announcing that Mr. Lister, a Customs Officer, was accidentally drowned on the 16th at a station some ten miles from Ichang, and that the body has been recovered, and has been sent to Hankow for interment. There were no marks of violence on the body.
We regret to hear that news has been received of the death at Newchwang from typhoid fever of Mr. B. B. Dowley, the representative there of Messrs. Butterfield Swire.
Many of our readers will learn with regret that a telegram was received by the Mitsui Bussan ai ha on the 21st inst. dated Nagasaki 7.45 p.m, announcing that Mr. Dall, chief officer of the Hideyoshi Maru, had then just died. Mr. Dall came out to the East in 1865.
In reference to the statement. which [Appear in atiother column to the effect that Messrs. Shimada did not intend to re-open their hotel at Unzen this season, in consequence of the damage done' to the roof by @ typhoon,' we are informed that the proprietors have already set about Pern good order again in about a fortnight, ring the roof; and that they expect it to
In his despatch to Lord Salisbury of the 8th June, Mr. Consul Gardner is made to say that Mr. Green, who was killed.at Wusueh, was "in the employ of Her Britannic Majesty's Customs, Hankow." It is obvious that this is a home mistake, but a correspondent writes to ask us if it is an unconscious prophecy The Reuter's telegram which we print in another column is vexatiously vague and incomplete, but as the advices are said to come from Berlin, it-is probably the German. forces in-Hast Africa that are referred
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