A card bearing a post mark for the 23th July, was duly delivered as addressed, to Mr. Takejiro Ogawa of Higashi-Tamachi, Nagoya city. The open epistle was signed by one Tokai-Ky, made man of the eastern sea) and rend: "Pray pardon my Jong neglect to call on you. T happen to bea little pressed with a need for your life and beg you to let me have it. Without pointing any date, I shall come and get it! Mr. Ogawa isa contractor who regularly supplies labourers to the Construction and Repair Bureau of the Aichi Prefectural Office and he does not know that other people have any grudge against him. Nevertheless he does not consider the postal communication a welcome one ing account of a clever feat at sea from a Victoria, B.C., telegram of the 9th ult The new Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer Kaga Maru, which came into dock here early this morning, brings a report of one of the most remarkable feats in the marine engineering line ever. performed on the high seas. Captain J. W. Ekstrand, master of the Kaga Maru, tells the story as follows On July Ist. at 1.15 am. when in latitude 45 degrees north, longitude 169 degrees 40 minutes east, he sighted a steamer broad on the port bow. Noticing thit she was not under control lis altered his course and bore down on her. Afterwards her captain came alongside and stated that the vessel was the Norwegian steamship Guernsey, thirteen days out from Muroran and bound to Portland, Or.- She had broken her tail shaft and lost the propeller, and the condition of the helpless vessel, in consequence, was grave in the extreme.
Favoured by calm weather and a quiet sea, however, the captain decided to make attempt to ship anew blame. The ship, bein ballast, her cargo was moved for war! until the bow was deep in the water and the stern was elevated until the propeller shaft was clear of the water. A raft was improvised and nine-ton propeller lowered to he propeller shaft was placed in position without great difficulty, but the swell of the ocean and crude appliances at hand made the task of shipping the huge screw almost impossible. Repeated attempts only resulted in failure, until finally, the skipper's orders, the two opposite blades were cut off. Thus lightened, the screw was at last got into position, and Captain Krohmahlson expected to get under way with his double-blade propeller the following day.
The Guernsey is of about 2,100 tons, and although bound to Portland, is under charter to load lumber at Moodyville and Hastings for Russia.
Frost the "London and China Express" of the 12th ult, we learn that the battleship Albion had left for the China station to be Sir James Bruce's flagship in place of the Barfleur.—A shareholder in the Panuco Copper Ca. has succeeded in an action agains? the chairman, Mr. W. Keswick, M. P., on aunt of a mi: leading prospectus. Edward will prorogue Parliament in person.—Captain Mortimer O'Sullivan is going to be the guest of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce at the end of the month, at dinner, and will deliver an address on the China Question.—Mr, George Gibb, late partner in Messrs. T. A. Gibb & Ca., died on the 6th ult., aged 74.—The U. S. cruiser Newark has made a record voyage of 46 days from Hongkong to New York.—Tho erratic delivery of the French mails has been causing much inconvenience at home, Tne following Cevtral News telegram which appears in a home paper shows that nowadays nice customs do not always cur-they to great Kings:—Berlin, 9th July.
At the recent Kiel Regatta the Emperor gave strict orders that no ship should cross the starting line. These orders, however, were not observed by the warship Gazelle, which, employed on official duty, encroached on the starting line. The Emperor instantly signalled for the arrest of the officer commanding the corvette, and Cartain Neitzke, the officer, not only at once gave up his command, but mortified that an Imperial order for his arrest should have been publicly signalled, afterwards tendered his resignation from the Imperial service. But the Emperor graciously refused to accept the resignation.
It now transpires that Captain Neitzke's resignation was not accepted owing to the interference on his behalf of Vice-Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia and other high naval officers. Prince Henry represented to his Imperial brother in vigorous terms that Captain Neitzke was engaged in the discharge of his official duties under orders from his superior officers, whereas the Regatta was an essentially private function for the Emperor's amusement.
The Emperor was forcibly struck with this view of the matter. A
Ix a very temperate note on the War in South Africa the " Spectator " says:—the Boers did not intend war, and war with a first-class Power, why did they waste millions on their astonishing collection of war materials? And if they only accepted war and did not wish to force it, why was not their ultimatum couched in reasonable though explicit terms, instead of terms of insult so gross that, as they well knew, no Government could regard it as anything but a challenge which it would be shameful to refuse. We are not of those who hold the Boers wicked because they hoped to found a great Afrikander Republic of South Africa—why should they not hope it?—but that they did hope it and did prepare for it, and that Great Britain was bound to resist such a design, soam to us past question. It would be as reasonable to argue that Prince Bismarck never intended war with France because till ho was quite ready he continued to negotiate.
Tae following interesting note is from the Eastern World"
About three hundred years ago the British Government, or, rather, King James I, was in great need of money, so that the king saw himself under the disagreeable necessity to call a parliament to ask for funds, The king had first asked the bishop of Lincoln whether he could not take his subjects' money without all this formality of parliament. The bishop replied, "God forbid you should not, for on are the breath of our nostrils." The ing was not quite sure, however, and asked bishop Andrews the same question, when the latter replied, "Why, then, I think your Majesty may Jawfully take my brother Neale's money, for he offers it." James, however, after 'a'l called a parliament.
Some of the causes of the want of funds seem to have been the same that have led to the present financial distress in Japan for in " paper that has been preserved amonget the Egerton MSS,, Lord Ellesmere, the Lord Chancellor wrote, amongst "Another thinge of greatest importance ys the contynuall and excessive importa tion of foremen superfluous and vayne merchandize, fare exceeding the exportation of the rich and royal commodities of this kyngedome, by which the realm ys daylye more impoverished and wasted and yf it be not remedyed in ryme, the state can not longer subsyste. This' require th great consideration, care, and industry Of men skylfall in the trade of merchandize, but such as feere God and love the Kynge and common weale, and wylie not preforre theyre private gayne for the present before the Kinges welfare and the publicke state of the realm. Yf this pointe for equalling the exportation and importation be nob effectually and spedilye dealt in, whatsoever else shall be attempted for abating our supplye, wyll be to no little purpose, for this is a consumynge canker."
The equalisation of exports and imports, to be sure, is not an infallible criterion of the financial position of a country but it is a very important factor in it, and when there is a recurring and increasing balanes on the wrong side, coupled with increasing expenditure, the end of such a state of affairs is not much more than a question of arithmetic,
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