Chu-yao Bank Outer Buoy, and that the Drinkwater Point Buoy will Lo replaced by a 10-foot conical, red buoy, surmounted by a spherical cage.
Iris reported that certain Chinese merchants and gentry have subscribed and collected the sum of Tls. 32,735 for the proposed Municipal Public School for Chinese. min it is also stated has Doon temporarily deposited in the Imperial Bank of China, and Mr, J. C. Fergus will be asked to hand it over te the Municipal Council as previously agreed upon.
Ir is very probable that the Tariff Re sion Commission will sit in' Shang: where all the necessary information will be readily available. the riesha—the humble, useful, bethwacked rieshe—has its hours of As witness the case of three of hard-working vehicles which, dis-josed neatly on a sampan, were yulohed down the river yesterday afternoon. To
would be to court disillusionment. seek to find why they went thus, or where, tis pleasanter to imagine them as spending idle hour upon the water, safe from the imfortunate foreigner and the Argus-eyed police. Bon voyage!
Sap tales of suffering amongst the vie-tims of the recent floods in Kiangpeh, between Kiangyin and Chinkiang have been brought to Shanghai; the "pa" or dykes and embankments along the northern bank of the Yanztze between tke two points noted above having been destroyed the lute disastrous rains causing the inundation of the plains in the vicinity and destroying all the crops, houses and analy hundreds of lives of the inhabitants there. In view of this Messrs. Chiao Yao-shan and Wang Hyi-wu, Mavagers of the Yee Zay-yuun and How Ta Banks, respectively, and Mr. Kin Gen-san, Managing Proprietor of the Yung Kee, Yang'ze Shipping Agency, all of this port, are soliciting subscriptions and foodstuffs fur the unfortunate sutlerers who are stated to be dying daily in large numbers being in want of the barest necessaries of life. These charitable gentlemen have already sent a cargo of food by a trusty agent to the scene of disaster but, as might be expected, this first instalment, some 300 bays of sea biscuits, etc., is but " drop of in the ocean of want in that part of Kiangpeh.
Ir will be seen that the mercury in the shade on Friday reached 99°, AREMARKADLE discovery has just_been made by an expedition dispatched to Texas by the American Museum of Natural History. It consists of three skulls of the three-toed horse, protohippus, and parts of the legs, feet, and backbone. The protohippus is believed by members of the expedition to be the immediate ancestor of the modern horse.
We get a gloomy picture from American papers of the dismay of British financiers when it. was discovered that it was the Diamond Match Company of the United States which absorbed Bryant and May, and not the reverse. We learn, too, that the English press call the method ' Morgineering." A hetter word comes to mind—why not call it the" demorganisation of finance.
Tux following telegraphic information dated on Friday has been received from the Sumatra Director and Manager of the Maatschappy tot Mijn-en Boschexploitatie
Daily aggregate output of in Langkat 53,00) Crude Petroleum in Tanks at date 170,000
Kerosene nude since the date of the preceding
shipped yy 67,000 Stock at" Refinery date. 70,000
Tae Courrier d'Haiphong" criticises with considerable force the Convention concluded between M. Doumer, Governor-General of French Indo-China, and the Societe clu Railway clu Yunnan, besides exposing the inconsistent nonsense that M. Doumer has been talking at home about the richness of the province of Yunnan. The total cost of the line was to be million franes, of which 70 millions were to be raised by four per cent bonds, the colony providing 3 million francs a year t" pay the interest; the colony was also to provide 12§ million franes from its reserves: and the railway syndicate were to find the remaining 123 millions. But Doumer has only succeeded in screwing millions out of the railway syndicate, hat the amount of bonds is to be 76 millions, on which the interest will be 3.94 per cent. The sum required then is provided as follows Bonds with interest at 3.94 per cent guaranteed by the colony 76,000,000 Lump tional) provided by the colony 12,500,000 Cupital of the syndicate 6,500,000
Total... 95,000,000 But in his speech to the Chamber M-Doumer put the sum required at 98 millions, or 3 millions more than the sum proposed by the French Government and sanctioned by the Chamber, and those 3 millions the unfortunate colony will no doubt have to pay. It is stipulated, too, in the Convention that the whole of the required of any kind is to be bought in france, even if it could be procured in the colony; so that the railway syndicate gets all the profit, and the colony finds nearly all the money. It is to be noted, too, that one of the objects of the railway is to tap some coal mines which will compete with those belonging to the colony.
Tur P. intermediate steamer from Bombay, left Singapore at 30 p.m, on Monday, the 12th inst., for Shanghai.
Tue P. & O. intermediate steamer Formosa, from London, left Singapore at 8 a.m. on Sunday, the 18th August, for Shanghai.
Tae P. and O. S. Japan arrived in London on the 17th instant.
Tue N-D. L. S. Privz Heinrich, with the German mail of the 22nd ultimo, left Singapore for Shanghai on Saturday, the 17th instant, at 5 p.m.
Tne M. M. S. indus, with the French mail of the 27th ultimo, left Singapore for Shanghai on Monday, the 19th instant, at 4 pan.
Tae 0. £0. S. Coptic arrived at Yokohama from San Francisco on the 20th inst., and may be expected to reach Shanghai on Tuexday, the 27th idem, 'tHe R. M. S. Empress of India arrived at Hongkong at 8.30 a.m. yesterday, Tue P. M.S. City of Peking arrived at San Francisco on the 13th instant.
Tue R. M. S. Empress of China left Yokohama on Friday afternoon, the 16th inst., for Vancouver.
M.S. Astra left Woosung on Sunday for Weihaiwei, accom: panied by the torpedo-boat destroyer Handy, Russian man-of-war Varyag is 3 four-funnelled twin-screw cruiser of 6,500 tons' displacement and 23 knots' speed, launched at Philadelphia in 189: She is armed with 12 6-in. and 12 3-in. quicktirers, and 6 14-in. Hotchkiss guns, and her com: plement is 571.
Tue silk shipped per_ s. Riojun Maru, which sailed from Yokohama on the 10th ult., arrived at New York on the Ist ins days in transit.
Tue silk which left here per Empress of Japan on the 20th ulto, arrived in New York on Thursday, the 15th instant.
Tue I.-C. 8. Pechili, which left Chefoo on the Ist inst., arrived at Amoy on the 12th, having shellered from the typhoon en route under the Shantung Promontory.
Tae steamer Sual from Hankow and ports yesterday reports the flocd subsiding everywhere, The Kiangkwan is still ashore on Christmas Island, with the Kweilee standing by, apparently waiting for the water t" fall, The steamer Tales is also still ashore on Fitzroy Island with dredgers busily at, work around her, We have received the " Peking and Tientsin Times" of the 10th inst. It expresses great satisfaction at Sir Ernest Satow's having met Li Hung-chang's "unguarded impertinence" with the reoccupation of the Summer Palace.—The Station at Mechiapu has been definitely closed.—Li Hung-chang declares that nothing is known of the reported massacre of Belgian missionaries. But if they are alive, where are they?—The local rank of Lieut.-Colonel has been granted to Major Prendergast, R.E., and Major Browne, Tae following notes are from the Foo chow Echo " of the 10th inst, In our notice of the typhoon last. Saturday morning we reported the barometer to be rising slowly, and the rising continued to be very slow throughout that night and two following days. The wind was gusty, but never attained typhoon force. The rainfall at times was very heavy, and lasting as it did over four days and nights intermittingly, the river over. flowed its banks and all the low-lying country was flooded: We do not hear of much damage being dove to foreign pro: perty in Foochow, but at Kuliang there was no little trouble through loss of tiles and two'or three houses were rendered uninhabitable. 'The date of this visitation corresponds very nearly with that of two years ago; this' typhoon was passing on the 3rd, that of 1899 raged over us on the 5th of August.
Through an oversight the name of the S.S. Peluse was omitted in the arrival' department of our shipping news of the issue of the 3rd inst.
The Peluse may be properly styled the pioneer (auk steamer as far as Nantai is concerned. She isa vessel of bout 340 tous burden, and arrived at Nantai about 1 p.m, on Friday, the 2nd inst. She commenced discharging at 5.30° pin, and finished at 7.30 p.m., having discharged about 300 tons of oil into the new tanks, built under the superintendence of Mr. C. Rosemann, the Shell Transport and Tra: ding Co.'s resident engineer, The vessel, it may be noted, burns liquid fuel, which has been found'to give very good results.
The " Hongkong Telegraph" of the 23th ultimo has the following A correspondent is anxious to know if, whilst the French troops have had their little differences of opinion with the Chinese in the North, the Foochow arsenal, under the supervision of Frenchmen, has been turning out ammunition, ete., for the Chinese. Perhaps the Echo" can inform our enquire The foochow Daily Echo" is not prepared to give any information on the subject.
We are informed that all claims incurred by the Sun Insurance Office, and the Commercial Union Assurance Ca. Ld., during the fire at this port, have been paid. "Messrs. John Gittins & Ca,, agents.
We have received Hongkong papers to the 16th inst.—The Health Department at Manila have started a crusade against rats.—The Auericans are at last preparing to occupy Mindoro, an insurgent island of
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