Tue P. & O. intermediate str. Japan from London left Hongkong at 1 p.m. on Tuesilay for Shanghai.
Tue German mail which left here by the N.-D.L.S. Preussen on the 7th ultimo arrived at Genoa on the 10th inst. at 4
Tue str. Shansi which arrived on Saturday reports seeing H. M. S. Britomart at Amoy.
Tae N.Y. K. S. W. Cores de Vries from Hankow reports passing the C. N.S. Foochow on shore a* Oliphant Island, with the C. N. S. Tatung lying alongside of her.
Tue L-C. 8. Kinngwo left on Siturlay for Ichang, towing up to Hankow the new hulk Hankow for Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca. The Kiangwo is b ing assisted by the Lienshing as far as Wu'vu.
Tue O.M.S. Anping left Chefoo on Monday for Shanghai with the C.M.S. Hsin-fang in tow. The Hsinfung had her propeller badly damaged by ico in the echo River.
Taz Hunan Steamship Co.'s two new light-draught steamers for the Tungting Lake, Yuankiang and Siangkiang, which left Japan on the 10ch ult. and have been detained by bal weather at the Getes, arrived here safely on Wednesday morning.
We are asked to announce that the Secretaries of the Well Gold Micing Ca., Ld., have received Report No. 17 from the Mine Manager at Weihaiwei. Shareholders may see this and former Reports at the Company's Office.
Tae C.N.S Shanshing arrived in port on Wednesday from Tangku, vid Chefoo. Ao the 29th ultimo, while the steamer was in Lat. 37.20 N. ud Long. 120.47 E. (he-Ne. Promontory)
native junk was sighted, the crew of which were starving. A ship's boat was lowered and sent to the junk with a goodly supply of rice er.
IN a letter received from the Rev. Edward G. Bevis from K'aiféngfu, Honan, the writer states that on the Ist inst., with the aid of six Christians who offered their services, he was able to distribute 3,000 volumes of the Diffusion Society's publications, This was at the provincial examination for the M.A. degree. The distribution went off nicely, and the books were, without exception, well received. Mr. Bevis concludes: As far as I have come into contact with scholars and those of the higher classes, I find them much more open in their ideas than formerly."
Ox Tuesday at 6 p.m. the str. Tahung Meru collided with and sank a loaded sixty-ton cargo-boat, near the New Dock. While the Tahung "Maru was coming up the river, her steering-gear became jammed and she ran into the cargo-box which was lying alongside the str. Aragonia. The damage sustained is not known, as the buat sank a few seconds after being struck.
Tax following telegraphic information dated, 16th December has been received from the Sumatra Director and Manager of the Maatschappy tot Mijn- Bos Landb suwexploitatie in Langkat, Ld. Gallons. Daily aggregate output of Crude Crude Petroleum in Tanks at date...260,000 Petroleum 79,000
Kerosene made since the date of the preceding 4-monthly telegram... 69,000 Kerosene shipped since the date telegram 79,000 of the preceding half-monthly
Kerosene in Stock at Refinery at date.,000
Ir is suggested that the agents of Life Insurance companies who are owners of automobiles should combine business with pleasure by painting on the front and back of their motor-cars: "No danger if you are insured in the—company." The suggestion is capable of wide extension: doctors. might have, Dr. will attend you gratis if he runs you down," ete,, etc, Messrs. Farsam Box & Ca., L., will pay an interim dividend of Tls. 3 per are on the 22nd inst. The share register Il be closed from the 18th to 22nd inst., clusive. received Tuesday's issue, No. 78, of the "Chinese Christian Intelligencer"
the Rev. 0. E. Darwent delivered on be-BH #&). It contains the address of half of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which recently appeared in our columns." This is translated into easy Mandarin, The editorial comments, also in Mandarin, regarding the attitude of the ancient Chinese towards animals are interesting und instructive. Besides the usual recent Church news, ete, we find some very pt illustrations from old Chinese hooks, one of which is as follows: A rustic seeing a rabbit dash out its brains in flight against a tree, gave up his occupation and waited under the tree for other rabbits to dash out their brains. There is amoral attached.
We have received from the Commercial Press, Printers and Publishers, very hund-some and neatly bound copies of the new textbook series, in Chinese, easy Wénli, comprising the following:-—An "Elementary Chemistry" base: on the Intest Edition of "Steele's Popular Chemistry, and a Complete Geography" with an_ accompany! sot of coloured maps, "designed for advanced classes in schools and general Readers," compiled by Zin Hong-lai Anglo-Chinese College of Shanghai. The letter pre-s in both books is specially clear and large thous the illustrations in the Chemistry are old-fashioned wood cuts. Those in the Geography are however up-to-date while the colouring of the maps is especially good and reflects great credit on the efforts of the publishers and printers. There is no doubt that textbooks issued by the Commercial Press supply " much-felt want amongst Chinese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.