There is unusually little news to chronicle in reference to the fleets. The battleship cur was taken alongside the dock at Kowloon om the morning of the 15th inst. ju order to have a new ten-inch gan placed in the fore barbette, and returned to her moorings in the afternoon. - Commodore Holland is slowly but steadily recovering from the injury to the kneecap recently sustained, but will not be able to move about for some time yet. The cruiser Narcissus and the torpedo-boat destroyers Handy and. Hart are expected here shortly from the North.
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