My Dear Brother:-~At the Union Church in Seoul, last Sunday, T was instructed to inform Missionaries in China that our bonies are open to them if it becomes desirable for them to leave China during the war.
"The news that comes tous is very bad and we can only pray and hope for the best.
Yours cordially.
J. R. Moise, Pastor, Seoul Union Church.
'A. srarurony meeting of shareholders in the Yue Kang, Glue Factory Cv., Ld. was held yesterday afternoon at the offi inthe Pekin Road. The Chairman me tioned the meeting had been called in compliance with the provisions of the Companies' Ordinances of Hongkong. The manufacture of glue would be started as soon as the ywoather became cooler; samples had already been sent to Japan and been approved of. There being no real business the meeting then ended.
We have received from Messrs. Reutery Broekelmann & Ca., the Agents here, a copy of the accounts for 1899 of the Aachen and Manich Fire Insurance Ca. The. net premia received in 1899 were £470,253 and the losses paid and outstanding £319,396, the net profit for the your on a paid-up capital of £90,000, being £73,473, including interest. The total assets of the Company on the 3st of December last were £1,003,078.
A sore, headed "Germany," in a recent inone of the London' Times" says:—The Director of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office, Dr. von Buchka, has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. Dr. Stuebel, the German Minister to Chile, has been appointed as Dr. von Tae R. M.S. Coromandel with the London mail of the 22ud ult. left Singapore at 1 p.m. on Saturday for Shanghai.
Tue U.S.M.S. City of Rio de Janeiro arrived at San Francisco on the Sth fust.
Tae 0.S.S. Coy's.s. Rhipeus left Singa-pote for Hongkong and Shanghai on the 12th inst.
Tue German cruiser Gefion arrived here on Sunday from Taku, going to moorings in the upper reach of the river.
'Pur Netherlands' cruiser Holland arrived from Hongkong this morning.
ELMS. Picuy returned to her moorings off Kiukiang Road last evening after a run to Wenchow. She met in the river the whole of the European community of the place being brought off by the Poochi, and so did not stay. H. M.S. Hart went out for a spin on Friday morning, returning to her buoy in the Upper Reach about noon.
Tue steamer Arab, while attempting to cross the bar, inward bound at 2 oan. on Sunday, took a sheer and grounded on the spit of the inner bar. She is at present discharging cargo, and there was hope that she would be floated with this morning's tide.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 7th instant.—J. Logan, an engineer out of work, was found unconscious in Douglas Lane on the 5th and died in the hospital.—Plague cases continue in Hongkong at the rate of a reported that Lord the now Comnmnder: -Chief in Indin.—Sandpiper while on her way to Nanningfu was recalled by telegraph.—Mrs. Nolan, formerly matron of the Female Prison, and one of the oldest resi dents ini Hongkong, is dead,—The Frank-fut and Wittekind, with German troops for the North, are due at Singapore on the 3rd proximo, Tar following notes are from the "Hongkong Daily Press" of the 30th The death is announced from Bangkok, on the 18i inst., of Mr. Gordon Frazer, ai artist who has been living and painting in Bangkok since December last. He had been commissioned to paint a portrait of the King of Siam, but sittings had not commenced. The cause of his death was typhoid fever.
7th Bengal Native Infantry which is told off for service in the Far East ant sailed in two parts, on the 26th ai inst. respectively, is, says Times," what is called a '*class" regiment, its personnel consisting entirely of Rajpoots of the Lucknow district. The Battalion is commanded by Lieut.-Col. W. G. Mansel, Indian Staff Corps, formerly of the 68th Regiment.
A correspondent of the "Straits Times" writes:—'tI was told yesterday, the 21st inst., that Kang Vu-wei is' still in Singapore, carefully secreted in some secluded quarter of the town. He is said to be closely watching the trend of events in China, I believe the papers have tried to interview him; but their efforts wer unsuccessful. The Reformer, I am told, only waiting his opportunity. When the young Emperor Kuang Hsii is placed on the throne by the Powers (always providing that the Emperor is so placed), Kang Vu-wei is coming forth from his seclusion, and is going to have the Peacock's Feathe and to be the young Emperor's legal adviser and right-hand man in Peking. I hear it rumoured also that, when this takes place, a Singapore friend of Kang Vu-wei is going with him, in the capacity of court physician and adviser on English methods and manners. Can you throw apy light on this matter?" Our contemporary is unable to throw apy light.
We understand that when Sir Henry Blake learned here that 2 German Volwiteer Corps was being started in Hongkong, j he pointed out that it was an impossibility, as a British Volunteer Corps would be a German Colony. Accordingly the "Hongkong Daily Press" of the Sth inst.
The gentlemen who had given in their names as members of the Germiil Volunteer Corps, to be utilised as special constables, have been informed on behalf of His Excellency the Governor that at present the state of affairs did not warrant the calling out of special constables, but that His Excellency would be glad to avail himself of their services if required. Consequently, for the time being at any rate, the corps has been disbanded.
Tue colonial authorities in Hongkony are a peculiar race of people. On the 27th of June there was an auction at the Central Police Station there of a large quantity of surplus stores, including 89 Mai rifles, 137 muzzle-loading rifles, 1 Winchester rifle, and 300 pistols and revolvers. These were fi-yarms that had been confiscated at sundry times by the police, and it was a government auction; and yet we are assured that it is a fact, incredible as it must appear, that all these arms, with the exception of twelve revolvers, were sold to Chinese. And the auctioneers specially themselves " Government Auctioneers." We must presume, therefore, that the Hongkong Government considers that this is an especially good time fo provide the Chinese in the Colony: with arms and anununition. 8 pan Times" publishes the a poem written "by a European Indy resident in Tokio, ind of unusual literary ability
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