A Hangchow dispatch to hand reports that five of the desperadoes who attacked Mr. Kennedy, of the Dowieite Mission, near Yibang, Shaohsing, have been cap. tared by the authorities, together with quantity of loot taken from that mission. The officials declare that they never roceived any notice of the establishment of the Dowieite Mission, and the location being in a hilly and sparsely settled trict, far from the city of Yibang, the news of the attack on Mr. Kennedy was the first intimation they -had of there being a foreigner in that secluded-place. No time has been lost, however, in tracing the desperadoes, once the attack was reported to the authorities. exceeded in gorgeousness, variety, and length any previous processions of its 25th April. kind in Shanghai. This procession, or On-the Watch.
Ta Wang Hui, which takes place annually It is stated that owing to information time of the year, was in honour of received by the local mandarins leading the "Ta Wang" (Great King), which is a them t" suspect that the interned Russian designation of one of the four Dragon war-vessela in harbour intend to make a Kings who rule the water of the four of it, in order to join the Baltic fi quarters of the earth, and started from the Shanghai Taotai has increased the the Ta Wang Temple, in the Western, number of picketbonts patrolling the or Sinza, district yesterday, at a little vicinity of the Exstern Railway Company's after 12 o'clock. The length may wharf on the Pootung side, 0 8 to give be judged bythe statement that it took immediate warning in case of any sudden something over an hour to pass a given and, suspicions activity on "hoard the Russian vessels. [instructions have also point on the route. Amongst those who been sent t" the Captains of the Chinese took part were representatives of the fast cruisers, Iaichi, Haichow, and "Haithree hundred and sixty different trades, and handicrafts into which ching, to be ready to prevent any Russian tradition divides the population of this yang, and the Fioeher bell cruiser warships from leaving the hacboor
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