The missionary doctoress and the Chinese cook she is ready to espouse have arrived in Hongkong, and I presume that, if so minded, they can get "fixed up" by the Registrar. Some rubbish was talked in the papers about the Registrar refusing to perform the contract, but this is absurd, as so long as the parties comply with the provisions of the Ordinance in giving due notice, ete., he had no option in the matter. If the deluded Indy is to be saved from such an alliance it can only be done by frie ly rts, conducted with tact, NAVAL MOVEMENTS, There is not much of interest to record under this heading. On the 14th instant the British gunboat Plover arrived from Yokohama, and the French cruiser Pascal from Chemulpo. The Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto left the same day for Shanghai.
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