The Kianykwcon had hazy weather feom Nygauking to Navking, and xt 11 a.m. 26th passed the IV. Cores de Vries aground at Walled Village, At 7.30 p.m, same day she fell in with the Yuenro aground a little below Sunshan. She stopped and assisted her, and the Yuentoo floated at 3.20 a.m, on the 27th, The weather at the time was foggy.
The Choysang left Hongkong on the 22nd and to Swatow had moderate E. and N.E. winds with head arriving at Swatow at 10.30 a.m, on the 23rd. Let 4.20 p.m, on she 24th, Strong monsoon ud head sea with fine weather to Turnabout, thence to Tungshn moderate north-ousterly winds and fine weather, but hazy. Tungsha to port fresh W.N.W. wind and fine Anchored outside Woosung for ug for water to Garden bridge has now been closed catringe trafic since the 16th instant, twelve days, and the repairs are not yet finished, In'the meantime people wre put to the inconvenience of going round by the Kiangse Road bridge. Somebody is responsible for the absurd ion of the barrier the Hongkew end of the G: bridge, xnd instead of having i middle of the roadway, so thatthe jinricsha can all keep to their left, one side is blocked up, and consequently all the jinricsha ive to go and come by the side of the bridge nenreat the river where " gigantic Sikh policeman keeps watch and ward. The arrangement, besides throwing all the traffic one side vf the roadway which is 1 wise thing to do, is very inconvenient, when there are jinticalas going both ways, some of them occasionally have to stop allow the others to get through If the sensible plan were adopted of placing the barrier in the middle of the roadway, us is the case xt the Garden end of the bridge, there would be no cause for complaint, nud accidents would be avoided.
Mr. I. Pollak asks us to mention that owing to some irregularities in the pro-coedings in the ase of Shun Mai-sung v. L. Polluk, he has caused an appeal to be entered aguinst the decision of the Austro-Hungarian Consular Court.
We have received from the American Presbyterinn Mission Press two very handy Giaties; The Missionaries' Anglo-Uhinese Diary for 1893, avd The Medical Missionaries' Anglo-Chinese Diary for 1898. Considering the difficulties mentioned in the publialiers' notice in the former of these, they are very creditable bouks, the diaries having exch two days on a page with the western and Chinese dates, and a number of useful tables, with special technics! information in. the latter book, and they should be indispensable to missionaries, and useful even to Inymen, We have received " copy of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha time table for 1893. "The Company's steamers will be despatched from Shanghai on Fridays in the afternoon or on Saturdays in the morning according to the state of the tide, and the stay of the steamers at the intermediate ports will be shortened whenever possi!
We have received from Mr. W. T. Phipps, Chief Agent here of the Standard Life Atsurance Ca., excellent diaries for 1893, interleaved with grey blotting paper, and in very handsome covers. The diary 3 two days on a pxgo, giving plenty of room for memoranda. In the covers is some useful information as to the Standard policies. The Company's invested funds amount to £7,600,000.
The calendar for 1893 which we have received from Mesars, A. Watson & Ca., Ld, is coloured with much taste, but the artist is decidedly more familiar. with flowers than steamers, and it is decidedly imprudent to send the large red-funnelled steamer on it to ses without any anchors, A Marine belonging to H.M.S. Severn having died in the Hospital, was on Wednesday accorded ary funeral, At the U.S. Consulnte-General on Tuesday " conl passer employed on board the USS. Lancaster was fined $10 and sevtenced to fourteen days! imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly un Broadway and assaulting the police.
For the first time for a considerable number of months, the British gaol yesterday did not contain a single prisoner.
On Wednesday morning, whil pal policeman was about to arrest a marine, an absentee from the Lancaster, the latter jumped into the river from Canton Road pontoon, thinking thereby tu save the $10 reward which was offered for his apprelien-He did not succeed in his object, the policeman got him out of the water and took him on board his ship.
'The unseating of Mr. H. D, Davies at Rochester again increases the Gladstonian jority, as Mr, F. B. Maddison, the Liberal candidate, who polled 1,712 votes at the general election to Mr. Davies' 2,119, becomes the member for the borough. By the unseating of Mr. Patrick Fullam in South Meath, Mr. J.J. Dalton, Parnellite, becomes member. Mr. Fullam polled 2,212 votes and Mr. Dalton 2,129, at the ra] election.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 19th inst.—It is not improbable that Sir Cecil C. Smit!
Governor of the Straits Settlen will be appointed Governor Investigation at Singapore has not confirmed the report of the poisoning of Chinese there frou eating unwholesome food jerant restaurants. Victorin Regatta passed off most factorily at Hongkong; the iuteruationsl four-our race was won by the German crew.—"Pro Bone Publico" advises Punjom shareholders not to sx shares, when the prospects are 80 guod.—The Chief Paymaster us sold 10 4/s drafts on London for £85,000at 2/8}4 to 2/844 per 8.
We hai ived Hongkong papers to the 28rd inst.—News has been received of the destruction by fire of the entire village of Lackay, the portant the head of the navi Bone d'Anty, French Consul at Lungchow ation of the Red River in Tougking.—M.
has officially' and completely contradicted the story recently told reflecting on M. Lemaire.—No Chinese or oth ie is now allowed to enter Tongkong or Auniam without a passport.—News had been r ceived at Canton that Sir C. Alabaster is not returning.—Mr. de Bovis, Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has gone with Mr. Mody to visit the Hongay coal mines. Mr. V. A. C. Hawkins re-arge of the Bank.—A bad flood has destroyed the main dam and all bri at the Punjom mine, but the mine itself is safe.—The too well known Count Popow has been having " good time in Mauritius as the French Vice-Admiral Wilson. He ended by being allowed to leave the colony unprosecuted.—Leo Hernandez gave a successful parachute exhibition at Macao on the 19th inst. the 24th inst.—The Courrier Haiphong We have received Hongkong papers to
regrets that by recent changes the French element has been entirely eliminated from the Chinese Customs at Méngtze.—The Singapore Insurance Ca., Ld., is to be wound up voluntarily, and the Directors expect that the shareholders will receive $18 per share.
We have received Japan papers with dates from Yokohama and Nagasaki to the 2ist, and Kobe the 22nd inst.—The Prince Imperial was pronounced out of danger on the 16th.—A funeral service was held over the remains of Miss West at Tokio on the 16th, and they were then removed to Yokohama; where furth: services we held.—The Government taxation Bills found no supporters in the House of Representatives, and the Government is placed in an embarrassing dilemua.—There was a large fire at Shidzuoka on the 15th, which destroyed some 387. houses, among them several important public buildings The Zambesi was brought into Yokohama the 16th. The Japan Herald says that sh seemed to have still good deal of water in her, and the pumps were still going.—Tho Girls' Higher Elementary School at Kobe was entirely burnt down on the Ith. The fire broke out fortunately during the midday recess, when the girls were absent.—the Japanese authorities have refused to allow the Japanese pilot of the Ravenna to attend the Court of Enquiry at Yokohama, and Mr. Consul Quin had wired to the British Charge Affaires at Tokio, who had. replied that he was helpless in the matter. The action of the Japanese seems 0 unaccountable and unjust that we hesitate to comment on it until we hent what their reasons are, hile, the unfortunate pilot is: being examined almost daily by the authori at Nagasuki.—The U.S. gunboat Palos is to be put up to auction at Nagasaki on Friday, at the upset price of $7,000 gold, The purchaser will have to pay customs' duty on he The question of introducing Indian tea into Tibet is now exercising the minds of the plenipotentiaries engaged in conducting the interminable negotintiona between the Tndian and the Chinese Governments, says an Indian contemporary. It is demanded on our side that the produce ut Darjeeling gardens shall be admitted on such terms may hereafter be agreed on between the high contracting powers; and that a clause to that effect shall be inserted in the treaty. The Chinese, on the other hand, decline to admit the possibility of Indian tea competing with that of Szechuan, which now holds a monopoly of the Tibetan market, Hence " fresh cause of delay, whicl may detain the representatives of Chinn there until the summer of 1893, if not Inter. Chinese obstructiveness has, in this in been pushed to even greater length usual; for an entire revolution um place in the taste of denizens of Tibet before Indian tea can find acceptance there, Aa our readers are aware, the "cup that cheers" is unknown on the northern slope of the Himalayas. Coarse Chinn tex is imported in compressed cakes, which form convenient circulating medium. These are broken up and boiled with water and mutton-fat, and the resulting soup—for such it is—is greatly appreciated in the valleys of Tibet. Ludian tea is not suitable as a basis for-this decoction; and a planter who, some years ago, was at the expense of importing machinery for compressing leaf into bricks, ren jootan, Sikkim, and will have nothing todo with Indian toa in any shape, averring that it deranges their digestions. It is, in fact, too atrong, too rich in tannin and theine, to be consumed in their fashion, China tea is actually told inthe Darjeeling bazaars at a price con ribly above that of good, honest Indi from the neighbouring garden: was sent home two years ago by one who was desirous of ascertaining the secrat of this preference. An eminent firm of London brokers, after subjecting it to a minute examination, informed the exporter that it was a species which they had never previously met with. It strongly resembled the leaf which was produced by Ceylon in the earlier stages of the manufacture there, With care scientific treatment, they wrote, considerable improvement might be expected, but they deprecated the addition of another field of supply, xe likely ta be detrimental to the interests ut an industry which was already auffering- from overproduction.
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