The movements have not been numero Arrivals have been during the week flagship Centurion on the 14th from Manila; the dispatch vessel Alacrity on the 15th from Manila; the German gun-bent Ziis on the sxme day from Shanghai; the U.S. cruiser Baltimore and gunboat Wheeling on the 17th from Manila. The departures are represented by the Russian cruiser Pamiat Azova on the 16th instant for Odessa vid the Suez Canal; the German gunboat Jitis on the 17th for Canton; and the U.S. monitor Solace on the 18th instant for Manila.
PIRACY IN HONGKONG WATERS, There seems to be something like a reerudescence of piracy among the Chinese Boating population as well as in the riverine districts of kuangtung. Two cases have Jast few days. In the first instan just been reported to the Police within the
while lying in the vicinity of the Nine Pins was hailed by a boat containing six men offering fish for sale, but as the junk owner distrusted their appearance, he refused to have anything to do with them, and the rascals then fired at the junk 1 tivo of the crew. Another owner reported that his own junk and another in compa with him were attacked while lying off Ngo Hung, in Mirs Bay and that a desperate Struggle took place on board the latter, during which three pirates were thrown overboard and one of them drowned. On board his own craft he was less fortunate for they knocked his son overboard, and drowned him, and carried off sonic valuables Times this more of the British will be upheld in Suuth Africa, however sully some of us may. have been reminded that among these traditions is a great amount of initial ineptitude ant costly blundering on the part of its chiefs.""
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.