uth Africa is now one fighting horde "Formed of two mighty Tribes, the Boers and Boer'd."
—"'Don Juan," Canto xii, $t.95 (Altered to suit)
We have duly received the Septembee number of the "Chinese Recorder an} Missionary Journal," the frontispiece being a reproduction' ut the photograph o the Iste Dr. Kerr of Canton with hi Tubiiee tablets.
We have received the September num ber of the "Chung Si Chiao Hui Pao" Missionary Review " one of the publi tions of the Diffusion Society and edited by the Rev. W.G. Walshe. This number} of Turkey, accompanied by 2 sketch of the contains a portrait of the present Sultan
man from' the peu of Dr. ¥. J. Allen, and a good clour likeness of Professor Réntgen, with a short article un Réntgen's rays, by the Editor. huaris Company, Litited, who for many years held the appointment of Purveyors of Natural Mineral Waters to Her Jate Majesty and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, have no* received the pointment to His Majesty the King.
We have received from Messrs, Dunning ial Number of the " Ame-tien Jour Comvnerce," containing an acc vant, with illustrations, of the Pau: American Exposition at Buffilo. They are well-executed, and make the reader regret. the distance that separates hi from the scene of so much beauty and cpl-ndour.
Messrs. H. A. Sin & Ca., of Anjer, inform us that the British barque Kentmnere put in at Anjer on account of the illness of Captain Russ. C-plain Ross was sent to the hospital and the Kentmere continued her voyage to Hongkong, with the chief officer in command, The Kentmere is four-masted barque of 2,347 tons and left New York for Hongkong on the oth of May.
DASTARDLY attempt to blow up the British steamship Mechanician, engaged in transporting mules from America to South Africa, was made last month in the port of New Orleans. The crew of the ship were awakened by the noise of terrific explosion, and upon investigation being made it was found that two plates on the water's edge at the starboard side had been sprung. A considerable amount of water entered the vessel, which was pumped out after hard work, and in the niorning it was ascertained that the dam. age-was not of a serious nature. The explosion, it is presumed, was from some sort of bomb, or torpedo, and a cotton-wrapped wire, 125 feat in length, has been discovered, from which the missile was ansyended. There iv no doubt but that the cowardly work was that of sympathy with the Boers Tae P, & O. S. Palawan, with the English mail of the 16th ult., left Sin: pore for Shanghai on Sunday, the 8th instant, at Sa.m.
Tae M.DLS. Natal, with the French mail of the 10th ultimo, which should have left Hongkong at 7 p.m. on Monday, was delayed by a dense fog and her departure did not take place until 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, She is expected to reach Shanghai early on Friday morning.
Taz R. M. S. Empress of India left Yokohama on Friday afternoon for Vancouver.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.