Oran extraordinary general meeting held yesterday of the Shanghai Electric and Asbestos Company, Ld., the series of resolutions already advertised in connection with a proposed increase of capital were duly carried, together with additional provision that the proposed new shares shall, in the first place, be offered to the shareholders of the present company.
CowstpeRanre anxiety, says the "Chefoo Daily News," is being manifested by +the friends of Mr. Manusso, formerly manager for E. L. Mondon, La.. at Port Arthur, who left that place in a junk on.the 2nd of June bound for Chefoo. Several of his acquaintances who departed from Port Arthur subsequently have arrived here, and are inclined to believe some mishap has. befallen "Mr. Manusso. Indefinite reports of the sinking of the junk in which he set sail reached them, shortly after his departure, but they were inclined to think he would get through safely.. He has failed to arrive at his intended destination, however. number of-prominent naval officials are registered at the Hotel des Colonies, including the Commander of the It flagship Marco Polo, Capt. Prosbitero Captain Raffaele Borea of the Elba; Commandant Series of the Pascal, It. de 'V. Boaussaint, Commanding the Javeline, as well as It. de V. Raoul Desserienne of the Montcalm and other officers of the Guéydon and Sully.
A carat accident occurred on the river between 3 and 4 am.' on Wednesday morning. A boat containing several coolies who were coming up from the Norwegian str, Providence was collided with by an outward-bound steamer when opposite the China Merchants' Lower Wharvos. It is supposed that several of the coolies were drowned, as only twelve have yet been accounted for. One was picked "up by an American man-of-war in the vicinity anti eleven others were rescued by the I.-C. Suiwo and returned to Shanghai yesterday afternoon.
We have received from the Educ tional Association of China a translation of Dr. Henry D. Porter's Text-book on "Elementary Physiology," for the use of schools. The book is profusely illustrated with representations of the various parts of the human body, and also contains several coloured plates illustrating the human jem. This valuable work is translated into easy Wénli, especially adapted to impart the necessary knowledge into the receptive mind of the scholar, and should be a most useful text book for all grades of school Tux closing exercises of the Summer term at St. John's College, Jessfield, wore held yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large number of spectators, native and foreign. The first item of the programme-was a battalion parade of the College Volunteer Corps. Then followed speeches by H. E. Chu Pau-fay and the Rev. A. J. Walker, B. A., and the distribution of prizes and the 100 medals presented by Prince Pa Lun. A most enjoyable afternoon terminated with a scene from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, acted by eight students of the college.
We have received Tientsin and Chefoo papers to the 9th and 12th inst. respeetively.—Vicoroy Chang Chih-tung and Governor Tuan Fang have been given the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan as a reward for their contribution of $5,000 to the Japanese Red Cross Society.—The " Chefoo Daily News" says that a Russo-Chinese Bank clerk who left Port Arthur on Saturday last, and arrived at Chefoo the next day reports that the Russian fleet has suffered no severe loss except the Petropavlovsk. The Retvisan is thoroughly repaired and the Pallada is patched with wood. There are two vessels still under repair. No guardship has been sunk. "Ho was of opinion that the morale of the fleet is very poor. The entrance to Port Arthur is s0 mined and countermined that the Russians are very chary of going out. As far as he knew the only decisive fighting lately was the Japanese attack on a position near Golden Hill which was suecessful."—Another anonymous refugee reports that the Russian men-of-war which came out of the harbour recently succeeded in shelling the Japanese out of 8 position they had captured on the heights, and enabling. seven.. thousand previously unsuccessful Russian troops to Feoceupy it.
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