Hongkong, 16th May.
A missionary from the interior states that there are two factions amongst the rebels in Kuangsi. One has semi-political objects, and this faction holds the largest number together, but this movement makes no headway. The other faction consists of military deserters, who plunder the people and seize officials and hold them to ransom, and collect duties and likin at salt stations. There are roaming bands of rebels on the borders of Yunnan, Tonking and North Kuangsi.
Warres's American Circus opens in Hongkong this week and is to visit Shanghai in about three weeks' time. We understand that the company is a very strong one and {has been very successful in the towns already visited.
Shanghai, 19th May.
TheCouncil of the french Settlement have voted in their last meeting the amount of 90, C00 Taels for the building of a street tramway line from the Place clu PEst vid, the French Bund and the Rue clu Consular to the French Camp. We learn that the Purrey Auto-motor System will be adopted.
he line, which will be built first, is 3.8 llometres long. It is estimated that the rails of a single track will cost 28,000 Taels, the laying down, ete., 11,000 Taels. 4 cars with 24 seats each will cost 30,000 Taels and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.