We have received the Peking d Tientsin Times of the 8th inst.—The Peiho is improving; the deepest-draught tugs can get up and down readily with fully loaded lighters, and it is believed that steamers of a moderate size will soon be moored alongside the bund again.—The German Guard from Peking left Tientsin on the 7th; the Ttalian, French, and Russian Guards were still at the capital, the Russian Guard having been largely augmented since it went up.—Much commendation is bestowed on the improvements made in the French concession by the Consul, the Count clu Chaylard.—The Tientsin Cricket Club has decided to challenge Shanghai, the match to be played at Tientsin. the 11th instant.—The Hon. W. it Good-We have received Hongkong papers to
man has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of Hongkong, and the Hon. H. E. Polluck, Acting Attorney General.—A French comic opera company is performing in Hongkong.—The German cruiser Irene which left Hongkong for Foochow and Pagoda Anchorage, had to return for pressing repairs. Her bows were stove in, which was attributed to the heavy seas she encountered.—We take the following from the China Mail of the 6th "The torpedo destroyer Whiting arti from Mirs Bay yesterday afternoon between five and six o'clock, with Major-General Gascoigne, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Capt. 'Trefusis and' the officers and men of the Royal Welsh Regiment sent to mike a demonstration at Tui Po-hu. The Whiting went ashore in Mirs Bay in the darkness of the early morning, but got off safely, and an examination of her bottom by the Dock Company has shown that she has received little or no damnye. The force landed at Tai Po-hu, and found the charred remains of the matshed which Mr, May was forced to desert. In conversation with the villagers it was learned what had transpired, and that Mr. May and his party had retreated over the hills.—The chief men of the surrounding vil- Isges were assembled and were informa ish authorities were not to be trifled with. The villagers [were cowed by the large display of 0 further jous papers relating to the Kowloon extension are published in the Government Gazette. The British flag is to be hoisted on Monday in <ithe performance of the Siler King by the presence of a strong body of troops.
Messrs. Dallas and Musgrave's Company is highly spoken of by our southern contemporaries.—The full text of the proclamation by the American Commission to the Filipinos is published—When the American captured Malolos the soldiers found $23,000 of Aguinaldo's war funds in the old treasury building.
From Hongkong we learn that the captain of the nee torpedo-buat destroyer Shinonome, which was in Hongkong on her way out to Japan, flying the Japan merchant flag, was fined $25 or a month, a revolve the second ste the magistracy, on the 7th, for firing a
Captain said: 'I imagined I gers coming on board the ship, and vwauted to hem away."—A telegram to the Manila Times says that the Ro-publican nominees for the U.S. Presidency and Vice-Presidency will be William Mc-Kinley and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and the Democratic nominees W. J. Bryan and Admiral Schley.—H.M.S. Pigmy has returned to Iloilo after a most interesting cruise among the rebel ports. The China Mail's correspondent veys that the impression gained by the Pigmies was " that apart from the Filipino officials sent there by the Malolos Government—if Government it can be called—there was no deep genuine hostile feeling towards the United States. If s ship arrived at any of the ports with " cargo of rice, overt enmity would disappear. The Filipino military leaders are endeavouring to keep alight the flickering flame of revolution, but the common people are heartily sick of the whole business, and as oon as the power of the Aguinsldo faction is smashed in Luzon, the country will be s easy to rule as it was prior to the insurrection against the friars in 1896—an insurrection that aimed at the overthrow of the priesthood mainly because it had abrogated the rights of the civil administration and abused these rights by oppressing the people."—The total lose of property at Tilo was estimated at
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