Tae Ballaarat with the London mail of the 27th of May left Hongkong at 2.30 pam. on Saturday for Shanghai. She 128 16 chests of Malwa and 5 of Bengal opium.
Tue RMS. Empress of Japan lett Vancouver on Tuesday morning, and may be expected to reach Yokohama on Monday, the 4th proximo.
Tae R.M.S. Empress of India arrived at Hongkong on Tuesday, at 7.30 a.m.
Tue N.Y.K.'s 'Transpacific steamer Rigjun Maru, which left Seattle on the Gth instant, arrived at Yokohama on' the 24th instant, and all her cargo for Shanghai has been transhipped into the Salsume Maru, due here on the Gth proximo.
We have received the May issue of the Corean Repository, published at the rilingoal Press, Seoul We have received from Mr, 'T, Fisher Unwin a copy of Lhe Mutineer. A Re mance of Piteairn Isand. By Becke and Walter Jeffery. 8vo., 298 pp. Unwin's. Colonial Library. London, 1898, We have received the June issue of the Wan Kwoh Kung Pao, A Review of the Times, published by the Society for the Diffasion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese. have received prospectuses of the First Internatioval Congress of Public Art, to be held at Brussels from the 24th to the 28th of September next, Adherents, Bel-us or foreigners, pay ten francs, which is reduced to five francs in the case of This includes admission to all the meetings, receptions, fetes, excursions, that are to take place, as well as the toa copy of the proceedings. Subscriptions are also invited to the journal L'rt Public, illustrated organ of the Bucre Nationale Belge, costing 5 francs a vent, exclusive of postage. Subscriptions and applications for membership of the Congress should he addressed tothe Hotel Ravenstein, Brussels.
Tur, Liverpool Daily Post contains along account of the 62nd annual meeting of the Liverpool and London and Globe Inst Co.—for which Messrs. Set, Harding Ca., are the agents here—which was held at Liverpool on the 12th ult. The report showed that the net fire premiums for the past year were £1,540,706, the net losses £857,714, and the surplus £165,169. the life department the premium income ras £242,139, and the net claims paid amounted to £204,262. The life and an-unity fund" wore increased during the year by £182,943. The total assets of the company amounted to over £10,000,000. The meeting passed off most harmoniously.
We have received copy of the month-edition, dated the 30th of May, of the!Changtéhf, Honan, Hsin Pao. It is a "very brightly written journal, in English, of three columns, its total dimensions—it is only_written on one side of the paper.—being 9 by 14 inches, but it is full of news. We learn from it that the Queen's Birthday was celebrated in becoming style at Changtéhf. It is mentioned that on the 22nd' of May another horrible mine accident occurred at coal mine in the Hopei district, about 60 li from Changtéh-fu, by which seventeen men lost their lives. A boy engaged im pushing a coal
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