Captain d ant his son Edward arrived here to-night in the 38-foot launch Abiel Abbott Low, in which they sailed from New York on 9th July. In an interview Captain Newman said The launch has prove herself a noble i tout, but we have experienced awful times since we left New York, Severd times, in terrible gales, we nearly lost our drag anchor, owing to the gow chafing away. We ed 3,105 miles. We had great trouble with the kerosene, because the tanks which held it broke ant the oil Hlowded the extin. My boy became ill and homesick. T suffered greatly from sure and long sitting i iti spoke Kroonlind on Ist Aug is we encoun of most vere wiles, and the hardships were so arent that we feared we would not survive. We did not speak another vessel until 13th August. when we met a fisherman ninety miles off the Scilly Ishnds. These last ninety miles were the longest I ever sailed in my life. I would not besit ite, however, to try the voyage again."
iptain Newman lost thirty poinds in weight on the trip, Tae "Japan Mail" says:
The British Consul at Tengyuehting has informed the Burma Government that all taxes and exactions have ceased on the Bhamo route, und he considers that Burma nowy has a unique opportunity of becoming the sole trade route to Yunnan for Tudian yarn, Manchester and Canton tobacco. The Chamber of Commerce, says the Rangoon correspondent of "The Times, is requesting the Government to refund the import duties on goods in transit to Yunnan.
Tue following extract from a Japanese paper shows that sanitary zeal sometimes outruns discretion All the villagers of Sakuragawa in Oita ken were engaged in disinfecting the house ofa cholera case that occurred in that village on August 26th. and were going to eave the affected house when they were stopped by a village oficial. He suid that the people themselves must be disinfected, and he poured strong carbolic acid upon them. The acid burut badly twelve pers "us.
hey had to be taken to a hospital and are bitterly accusing the official for his carclessness.
We have received Hongkong papers 10 the 12th inst.—The Ist battalion of the Sherwood Foresters is to relieve the Welsh Fusiliers at Hongkong.—An unusual spec-tide was seen in Hongkong on the 6th, in the shape of a foreign overseer demolishing with his hands und feet a part of the front wall of a new skyscraper on Praya Central.—The transport Uganda, with the 2nd Rajputs, was four days late in arriving at Hongkong from Shanghai.—The report of the Universal Trading Ca., Ld., for the year ending the 30ch of June last shows a net profit of $33,848 on a paid-up capital of $879,375. An interim dividend of 6 er cent was paid in January last. and the Jauce is ewried forward.—H.3L.S, Arethusa left Hongkong homeward-bound on the 8th,—At the Marine Court of Enquiry at Caleutra into the loss of the steamer Deepdale it was found that nobody was to blame,—Sir Henry Blake, the Governor of the Colony, with Lady' and Miss Blake, arrived inthe Empress of Japan on the 9th, and had a_ brilliant reception at Blake Pier. The "Hongkong Daily Press" says: "HE, wore u steak grey morning coat and silk hat and looked very well after his holiday, a remark which als applies to Lady Blake wud Miss Blake."—It was reported at Vancouver that the Government of Columbia was negotiating with the Canadian Pacific Railway Cv. for the purchase of the Athenian and Tartar, with the view of converting them into ervisers.—Considerable progress has been made in the operations for raising the steamer Pakshan, 1,976 tons, which sank in Hongkong harbour on the 'Sad of June—A French convict named Genin, who escaped with three others from New Caledonia in a stolen boat, and was picked up and brought to Singspore by the German steamer 'Tanglin, has been' sentenced to death at Singapore for the murder of a jinricsha coolie at Tanjong Pagar on the Gth of July.—Hundreds and even thou: sands of tins of preserved food unfit for human consumption have been found in the stores of ¢-pradores who supply the foreign community in Hongkong, and have been destroyed, but for some unknown reason there have been no prosecutions,—The Parsees, in the great annual cricket match at Bombay, defeated the Presidency team by 74 runs. The scoring was lov, the wicket was sodden. The Patsees made 151 and 123, and the losers 112 and 68, A conuespoxpest sends a happy thought to the "Hongkong Daily Press" in reference to the diticulty of finding names for the masts of a seven-masted schooner. He says: When a picture of the seven: master was shown to a No. 1 Chinese pilot out_six months ago, he said: "Hi Yah! How fashion call em that bamboo (masts) Monday, Tuesday, WeInesday We mentioned some days ayo that the M. S. Kiangtung had struck a rock and sunk in the Canton River near Honam, The "Hongkong Telegraph" learns that jo hole was ripped in her bottom near the boilers by an old junk anchor, and the Captain promptly beached her. the "Hongkong Daily Press" re he recent following is the note appended
telegram announcing the establishment of the American Asintig Steamship Company
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