(From the, Foochow Echo of 4tl June.)
Mr. Phillips, who has just retired from the Consular' Service, was educated at ing's College School and College, London. He was appointed 'a Student Iterpreter in Chins in 1857; he studied Chinese some time in Hongkong and was appointed to the Foochow Consulate in June, 1858, Here he remained till June, 1859, when he was appointed 2nd Assistant at Ningpo, where he served under our late Consul Mr. Sinclair. In January, 1861, he was appointed Ist Close Assistant at Kiukiang, and accompanied Admiral Hope in his expedition up the Yangtze. In February of that year he was appointed by Mr. Par afterwards Sir Harry Parkes, to open the port of Chinkiang and, to" establish, Consulate there. Mr. Phillips romained that port till the end. of In 1862 he was re-
Mr. Phillips went to Chowchow-foo and made arrangements for establial Vico-Consulate in. that city.
Phillips was in charge of the Amoy Con-late for some six months, and in 1871 was promoted to a higher grade of Intertership. He was in charge of the Vice: consulate at Pagoda Anchorage durivig the 1873 till December, 1874. In was Acting Consul umu of 1877 was Kiukiang; was Consul at Swatow from the summer of 1882 till April, 1886. He was appointed aM: Consul at Foochow on the Ist July, Mr. Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has contributed to. the of its journal. He has also been a frequent contributor on geographic cal subjects to periodical publications at There are in Soochow several native phy- ho: and in the Fur East. sicians who make specialty of treating those Mr. Phillips had conferred upon him who attempt suicide by opium poisoning. about two years ago the Star and Ribbon One of these specialists had an expensive of the First division of the third class of uttit—stomach-pump, hypodermic syringe, the Double Dragon by the Chinese Govern-ete, Every thing was choked with rust or ment, which, owing to the regulations of dirt, and the only thing he could use was the Consular Service, he could not accept. a Davidson's syringe. He politely deferred to Dr. Park's skill and toed him to use Phe acceptance of the order was again
the instrument. Dr, Park declined the pected upon him by. the Viceroy on hi honour; and with great gravity the Chinese had to be declined. ering he was leaving Chins, but again it doctor inserted one and of the instrument Mr. Hurst will take over charge of between the patient's teeth. He then B. M. Consulate. on the 7th instant, pumped. all the mixture out of the vessel We understand the appointment is only a sitting before him, and continued his work temporary one. Mr. Furst was lately in spite of the fact that not adrop went acting Consul at Wenchow. down the.man's throat. The condition of We hear that Yan Chung Liu, a native the patient's clothing is easier to imagine of Hunan, who was formerly Governor-than to describe. When asked, Why not General-of Shensi and Kansu, is about to use your stomach pump?" he said,."'Ehave be appointed Governor-General of Fukien. never yet been able to insert the tube."
Concurrent with the Feast of Dragons)
Chinese doctor adds upon his. eign: we have had, as usual, a freshet on the board to his own name that of his teacher, river, and the surrounding low-lying coun~ abuormal: in the height: to which the water hus risen in the immediate neighbourhood, Accounts: reach us, however, of a very different state of things higher up the siver, where the rains appear to have been very heavy. At Yenping Fu,.the rise, above high' water mark, is reported to have been as much as thirty feet. A passing courier, carrying official despatches, reports the loss of life and. property to have been very great, the extraordinary rising having come. upon the people very suddenly and unexpectedly. Two boats laden with.tea, cou-taining, it is said, 1,000 half-chests, were smashed to pieces passing through the rapids and the crews drowned. For three days the traffic in the upper part of the river was stopped altogether, and the new tea crop has been checked in arriving in With all these accounts of heavy rains up country it is gratifying to know that they did not commence until after the frst crop tea had been picked and. packed, so that our supply, as seen from the free from any: weathery condi-, tion, as it is called, complained of in the teas at one of the other tea porte,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.