There is little news under this heading to chronicle this week, and the man-of-war anchorage is Jess lively. On the 5th inst., the cruiser Mohawk returned from Hoihow. On the 8th inst., the British gunboat Lizard arrived here from Auck-Jand, N.Z., and on the 9th the British storeship Humber returned from Shanghai. The departures have been few, but not able, the big French cruiser G steaming off to Taku on the 4th inst the great British battleship Goliath on the 7th to Shanghai. An Italian crusier arrived this morning from Europe.
CURIOUS CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER, An instance of the tuth of the poet's lines, "How mirth can into folly glide And folly into crime" occurred yesterday at the Government Civil Hospital. The Chinese have been celebrating not the day, but the season, it being one of their festive's, and the coolies at the Hospital waxed very jolly over the samshu in their quarters on Thursday evening. The liquor flowed freely, and one of the coolies received a good deal of chaff for not imbibing as freely as his fellows. The result was a little row in which blows were exchanged after which the combatants went to rest. One of the vanquished received rather sore bones and his wrath did not go down with the sun on the contrary desire for revenge grew through the silent watches of the night, and when dawn broke he rose with the fire of resentment still in his blood, So when he went out at 5.30 a.m. for his rice, he took his bamboo with him and on passing the bed on which his late opponent lay, he struck or jogged him in the stomach with it. The msn was taken speedily ill and had to be carried into the Hospital, where he died at 2 p.m. ina collapse, his spleen having doubtless been ruptured. His assailant has left for parts unknown.
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