Phe inclusion among the bye-laws attached to the Land Regulations of rules for dealing with (1) overcrowding, (2) compulsory removal to Isolation Hospital of tasses of infectious disease among vagrants or where means of isolation at home are insufficient. disease, including steam disinfection of clothing, a charge on the pablic rather than on the individual.
We hare received the Tientsin Times" of the 6th instant. has a very appreciative notice of the Dr. Trwin.—The six Brards in Peking are sending clerks to assist the Court at Hsian, which is a sign.—There are 5,000 Russians in Fengtien, keeping " close watch on the passenger feaffle,—Prince Cuuang died insolvent, and Li Hung-chang and Tuan pat his funeral expenses. ching, a missionary-kill Shansi, has fled, and an imperial warrant out for his execution.
Tue following notes are from the ' Feo-chow Echo" of the 6th instant Living in-an atmosphere of dust as we were for several days this week, the rain of yesterday afternoon was warmly welcomed, as we can now breathe pure air again. The sand-storms in the north do not often extend so far south as this, so the present one must have been of unusual severity.
The escape of a infants and their amahs from mortal inju: ies while on the hill en Thursday af: ernoon was little short of miraculous. "A ferocious water buffalo charged the group, and it was only through the presence of mind and ninibleness of the amahs that they managed to get out of his path, leaving only the perambulator to receive the brunt of his attack. The complete destruction of the little carriage showed how the party would have fared had they not been able to move s0 promptly away, The animal's ko. per ran up in time to prevent further damag For the future buffaloes will not be allowe on the hill within certain limits. succeed the late Dr. Underwood ut Pagoda Dr. Myers, who has been appointed to
Anchorage, arrived per s.s. Haitan on' the 3rd inst.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 13th inst.—When the booking for the Rrough Company opened in Hongkong, $1,500 were taken in the first hour, and $5,000 in the first day.—H.MLS, Arethusa has gone to take part in the reception of the heir-apparent at Singapore.
E. Tomki of Reiss and Ca, has joined the board of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.—The betting before the boat race was 11 to 8 on Oxford.—Thore is to be no distribution of honours this year until King Edward's birthday, the 9th fof November,—The King of Siam is to go to Java this month.—News has been received of the death of Mr. G. E. Noble, ined. the Hongkong and SI Bank in 1866, and rage to the Chi agership. He was subsequently one of the London Mancgers, and recently a mem of the London Board.—Mr. A. Michie was deliver wi address st the City Hall, Hongkong, yesterday evening on Mi sions."—Aguinaldo has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States.—The raising of the Canton River was making sitisfactory progrees.—Lieut. Commr. J. MI. Roper, v.s.¥., was accidentally asphyxiated on board the U.S.S. Petrel in Manila Bay on the Bist ult., while putting out a fire in the sail room.' The others who suffered with him recovered.—Capt. James Fowler of the steamer Phra Chem Kiao died. apoplexy at Hongkong on the 7th, aged 43.—The P. & O. Ca. are building two 10,000-ton steamers for the Australian trade.—The old P. €O.S, Ancona, renamed the Tabor, was totally wrecked off Mautitins on the ist ult.—The China Mail" reports a serious collision on the West River between the steamers Kungfei and Sunchow, beth Chinese-onned. The latter sank and some 60 lives are reported lost.—It is expected that the steamer Bliinchen, stranded at Yap, will be floated and brought to Houzkoug to dock.—The chi engineer of the Tykvo Sugar Work Hongkong, Mr. J. Blake, has had to have one hand amputated as the result of the explosion of a bottle of magnesium which he was opening.
We have received Japan papers with dates from Tokio xnd Yokohama to the11th, Kobe the 12th, and Nazasaki the13th inst. The "Japan Mail" gives a number of extracts from the native Press which show that Japan, conscious that she has acted so far with moderation and self-effacement, is determined to check Russia's course of territorial aggression—A fire broke out in the baggage-room of the Grand Hotel, Yokohama, on the Ist, but was put out before much damage was done.—Mr. Rubloo, the new U.S. Consul-General at Hongkong, was for four years in the same position at Prague.—Applications for shares in the Seoul-Fusan Railway were far in excess of the estimatel capital, Y. 25,000,000. The work is to be commenced in September.—The hull of a vessel, supposed to be the Tsukishima Maru, has been discovered by fishermen lying in 300 fathoms off Cape Miho,—The steamer Ugo Maru, 2,300 tons gross, is reported stranded at Takata.—The ' Asahi" draws attention to the arming by the Russians of the forts at Newchwang.—Mr. E, Pastor, who shot himself on the 2nd in Main Yokohama, died the same even-.—The new battleship Hateuso is expected at Yokosuka on the 1oth.—The Germans at Truck Island in the South Pacific have sent home eleven Japanese charged with selling arms and ammunition to the natives.—The British flagship Bartieur and the Russian battleship Sevastopol arrived at Nagasnki on the 9th.—The Nagasaki Press" says:—'An Osaka: paper learns on good authority that Admiral Skrydloff, of the Russian Asiatic Squadron, who was recently granted an audience by the King of Corea, abandoned xt the last moment the demand for the lease of Chinhai Bay, and that consequence the interview was altocethor insignificant, although it had attracted keen attention from almost all diplomatic quar. tors in the East. The paper adds that Tussia has Intely modified her attitude towards the leas question owing to the strony, opposition of the Japanese Government and people, I: is reported this connection from Seoul that the sudden change of attitude by Russia is the outcome of a long telegram dispatched to St. Petersburg the other day by the Russian representative at Tokio, who is said to have referred in it to the decidedly firm attitude of Japan with rozard to various Russian undertakings in the East."—Claims filed against the bankrupt fern of Middleton and Smith, Yokohama, amount to Y. 201,939, exclusive of Y. 42,890 secured. The assets are valued at joshidiod at the Meiji Hospital well-known Jap nese pontess
suma ye Maru, strand. ed cif Hokkaido, and Chiyo Maru, beached in the Inland Sea after collision, are reported as refloated.—Mr. Kato's conduct of Japan's Foreign Affairs is very highly commended.—The well-known "steamer Pathan has been sold to Japanese,—The new J-panese cruiser Iwate left Port Said for Aden on the 9h.—Tho Yorihime Maru, which built for a German Atlantic line, and was afterwards the P. & 0.8. Siam, is being broken up in Hiogo.—Mr. Charles Bertram was to sive a performance before the Mikado.—The Japanese are opening a new Admiralty port at Maizuru, on the coast opposite thd eastern shore of Siberi The following telegram is from the "Nagasaki Press Tokio, 6th April.
Great importance is attached to the Cabinet meeting which took place yesterday, as Japan's final actions were then unanimously decided upon and a second warning to Russia appro This is regarded in many quarters as the turning point in the diplomatic relations of the two countries.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.