Fire and Marine, do not succeed in cir claims to patronage before t will not be fur want of euterpris distribution of useful reminders.
We have received from Mr. C, J. Dudgeon, agent of the Companies here, a handsome perpetual calendar on s dark Blue board, " cut glass Tortoise shell book-mark, "tasteful. wall per-weight, an ivory paper-knife, a
Calendar, and a convenient block diary for 1893, with a week on a page, Ail these things are useful and neat, and they all bear the name of the two companies, the Fire with its capital (subscribed) of $2,000,000, and the Marine with its subscribed capital of $3,000,000.
In the November number of the Nautical Magazine we read The following notice has just received for publication regarding th Superintendent leas of the Bobha th Oriental Steam company, Hongkong, telegraphs to the managing Directors of the Company, under date of Saturday last as follows:—A Board of Trade Inquiry has been held as to the loss of the Bukhara, and a decision given that no blame whatever attached to the Com mander or Officers, and the discipline main-don board was hishly commended, This is no doubt technically correct, for the Court did say that it did not find that the loss of the Bokhara was caused by the wrongful act or default of any certi-floated officer but the Court alto said that it could not help thinking that the captain "committed an error of judgment in too readily concluding that the ship was drifting on a axe course, and that in consequence more strenuous efforts we not made to get the ship round on th board tack." It is not wise surely for P. & 0. Company to let it be thought t their mail stenmera gets into the nees in which the Bokhara found herself on the morning of the 10th of October, nothing can save her.
The Iilustrated London News gives three coloured pictures with its Christmas num-bor, the editors having preferred quantity to quality, 'A Willing by Fred Morgan, is tov much % reminiscence of Hook's Luff, boy!" ©. F. Garland's "Tally-ho" must have be inted for cal eker, while the anonyme "Waiting" la sweetly pretty.' The drawings in the number itself are much better, particularly thus by A. Forestier and F. Barnard. The letter-proes comprises a fairy tale by Mrs, Molesworth, a shocker" by Grant Allen, a very amusing idyll by Frank R. Stockton, and two little comedies by Barry Pain and L. F. Austin, Messrs. Hopkins, Dunn and Ca. sold the wreck of the at auction on Monday afternoon. The bull went for Tls. 640 and the cargo for Tls. 430. Chimese were the buyers.
The Japanese postal authorities appear to have got things mixed with reference to the U.S. mail which left here in the Saikio Maru. It will be remembered thet that ateamer was detained at Wooaung for eight days, and as the Pokling was outside th Bar, and bound to Nagasaki, the transhipped to her and was lauded at Negasaki alt right, The Paling then proceeded, but the postal authorities kept the and it was apparently sent on by. the Saikio Maru, which did not reach Kobe til} the 7th instant. As the Oceanic was to leave Yokohama on the next day, it is presumed the mail was too Into to catch her, and would be detained at Yokohama for the following steamer.
Macleod of H. M.S. Pullas, that if the It appears, from the report of Captain
epgers and crew of the Bokhar" had en on deck when. she struck, they might all__bave been saved, as the wreck lies "close alongside the remarkable flat, black reef which, with straight face, is like an accounts for the comparatively large number of survivors who were washed on to its table-land, from the upper deck, and remained there without any risk of a back-wash carrying them out again,"
Accordingto a letter received on Saturday by the agents of the Elektra, the detention of that vessel at Hongkong was occasioned by the breaking of her air pump eccentric, the information conveyed. before being a mistake. At the date of the letter the necessary repairs were expected to be completed in a short tine.
The Peiyang squadron is to leave Wei haiwei on 24th instant for Shanghai. The vessels will winter here and the Chaoyung and Yangwei will go up to the Arsenal: to have their guns adjusted, There is no doubt that the great German steamship companies show an amount of prise that ie not always matched by their English competitors, 'The Hamburg correspondent. of the London and China Express writes that' "the German crack steamers, for the first time, will be des-arched from Wilhelmshave instead" of hamburg, and they also will call at Geneva."
H.M.S. Porpoise, which arrived at Woosung on Friday last, left on the following day, and proceeded up siver.
M.S. Porpoise arrived at Hankow on Tuesday. The Linnet will go outside to fire after coming down the river, and will probably come up to Shanghai on Sunday or Monday next, The Rati rebably, leave this for Chinkiang on Satur yesterday frum Negasaki Uaving on bert The U.S.S. Marion arrived at Wooauny
Some of the officers and men and stores belonging to the Palos, As the Murion could not cross the bar to land these, the U.8.S8, Monocacy was sent down to Woosung to take the men and stores from her.
'The Melbourne, with the incoming French mail, left Saigon at 6 a.m, on Monday. The' M.M. Co.'s steamer Yangtse, which was to have brought the incoming French has been withdrawn from the China line, at least for the present.
The Verona, with the incoming Englis 5 p.m. on Tuesday press of India left Yokohama on Friday afternoon last for Vancouver.
The R.M.S. Empress of China left Vancouver on Tuesday morning and may be expected to arrive at Yokohama on Monday, the 26th instant.
The Feiho left_on Sunday morning for the wreck of the Peking for the purpose of Erowring up, oF levelling the wreck, has boon lacing a buoy over it. The contract for
awarded to Captain Vincent.
The Choysang, which left Shanghai on Sunday for Swatow, was not able to get over the Bar till Wednesday.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer Elektva left Hongkong yesterday afternoon for Shanghai The sailing days from England of the Blue Funnel steamers this month are; Palamed,
Silk shipped per Koht Marw from Shang-ale 17th; Laertes, 24th; Tantalus hain the 11th November and sent forward from Yokohama by the Belgic on the 19th November arrived at New York on the 11th instant. my eh 2h glace,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.