von, and on thureday, the 1 Tue P. and O. S. Shanghai arrived in Londun on the 2nd instant.
Tar R press of In afternoon, not q routined at San report seems to have arisen from letters from passengers, posted at Honolulu, which said that the writers feared the steamer 1 the Chins lin finally buile line, where she quickly ong interport travel-still prefer the sea route and its various attractions to an overland journey.
Tae C. M.S. Haean, which arrived here from Newchwang and Chefoo on Friday reports; Fine weather and light southerly wind. Av 10.15 a.m., off Shaweishan, observed signals and noticed a shipwrecked crew ashore on the Island. Anchored and sent boat ashore and took off Capt. and Mrs. Jensen and nine men of the crew of the American ship Carrier Dove, which wan wrecked on the bank north of Psung-ming. }One man had been lost in leaving the wreck on the night of the Ist instant. steamer Tena is repr ed out five miles below Ki is said to have only Chinese note ben appointed t consider the best means of providing for the conveyance of the mails to and from the East and Australas 1 the expiration of the existing contracts ith the Py slond Orient. It is con-
Evelyn Cecil, Buxton Forman, ff, C.B., Civil Assistant to Transports, Admiralty; Inv.
tendent of Construc™ tion Ao ni. W.
Blometield, secretary fur the i Board of Trade, retary's TI. and We bare received the printed report and accounts of the Chinese Hospital, Shantunj Road, for last year, These were submitter to the annual meeting of subscribers on the 13th May, and were noticed by us at the time.
Ansouo-Forsten, Secretary to the diniralty, has stated sin the order of merit as regards efficiones im gunnery will be published at given. Also that the King has approved of carly date, and anneal information the bestowal of medals to men who are the best shots in each class, subject to the performances being up to the fixed stand-yard of merit no British ships on the Chinese station should receive their fair proportion of these medals, as the returns, during the last fow years for target practice have boon exceptionally good. No ship in this part of the world, howerer, has yot equalled the performances of H.M.S Are-thus in marksmanship with thorite. The Arethusa, it will be remembered, won the challenge shek a few days before leaving Shanghai for home. have received from Messrs. Cassell Ca., LA, the publishers, 4 copy of Roy Academy Pictures 1993, in a cloth-hound Few weeks age tus United full maintain principle rstuud in Bas:
A Confine tells us ite the i} was univers a june in Aserican ker ks sand geddewnns te tin sat all the oil ie their 1 er feng they Teel had i in She has_acpasseuzers in Ist-class, ud 109 in Srd-class. The Ast-class accommodation occupies more than half of the ship, being situated in the space between the funnel and the st The di and j smoke wre on the irisin deck, while the rausic and re: wins are om the which being free of any other ation, beautiful" bout-most appreciated by passengers, in the day-time for sports oF night for dances, nésien_is a splendid addition e fleet of the Mf.
the China Tine: and no doubt she sit enjoy much favour loom those who guide to and memorial of the 1 of the Royal Academy, and a very jection of the pictures shown jons, especially the four plates in being excellent in themselves and printed on plate paper which brings out their excellence,—If there is no pre-eminently striking picture in this year's show, there area great many the seemed rank and worth this mak and 4 treasure to preserve.
We have to thank the hydeagaphie of the July issue of one monthly Pilot Chart department of the U.S. Navy for a copy the Ocean. Tt contains a article with diagrams on T'yphoons in East Asiatic Waters, which is of great interest even to lawlamen, in addition to the forecast of wind and weather and other
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