Tue OE. M. 8. Kungping, which arrived here on Wednesday from Tangku, reports that on Tuesday, the 14th, at 0.6. p.m.,
junk, abandoned, in Lat. 38° $1' N., Long the passed the wreck of 1 waterlogged 122" 31
Ow her voyage here from Wenchow, the 8. Fungshun, which arrived here on Wednesday, sighted the Chinese-owned steamer Taiping ashore on Sudan Island, flying signals for assistance. The Fung: shun immediately wont to her assistance and stood by from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., tually, at high water, giving her a hawser and towing her off. The Taiping ran ashore at 7.30 am. on the ith instant. The weather had boon foggy all the way from Hongkong, and those on board saw nothing ahead until they heard the crash caused by the vessel running aground. The only foreigners on board wore Capt. Brissander and the engineer, the foreign chief officer having boon left behind in Hongkong. When the Fungshun drew near, the Chinese crew of the Taiping came aboard, thinking that t! wu vessel towed off lnivovae, the crew were put was sinking. After the Tsiping was
back aboard, the Fungshun bringing on to Shanghai twenty-one of the compradore's staff, servants, etc. The captain of the Tungshan offered to continue standing by, but Capt. Brissander declined the offer and put otto sea himself. The Taiping was bound from Hongkong to Wuhu wie cargo consisting of 9,400 packages of sugar and camphor and sandal-wood.
Mrass. Janpive, Marauson & Ca. ask us to mention that they are agents, as well as Messrs. Scott, Harding & Ca., of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company.
We have duly received the June issue of the " Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal." It contains a very opportune note on Mohkanshan, with most attractive photographs, as well as articles by such writers of renown as Dr. DuBoso of Soochow, Dr. Stanley of Tientsin, and Dr. Martin of Wuchang; and there are the usual special departments.
We have soon a number of photographs taken by Lai Fong of 565 Nanking Road. The first shows the mon of the Fleet marching down the Nanking Road and the second gives another view of the scone on thir arrival at the Town Hall.
Thoro is a picture of the men at dinner, and another at the close of the post
bor of views on the Recreation Ground, prandial proceedings. There are/a num-one of which is particularly good, illustrating the fall of the flag at the first heat of the tug of war. The whole combined is an interesting souvenir of Saturday's proceedings.
'We have received from the agents hero, Messrs. Welch, Lewis & Ca., the report and accounts' for 1903 of the Scottish Union. and National Insurance Ca. In the life department, the net premia roceived were £305,028, and the not claims, including bonus additions, £316,986. In the fire department, the net premia received were £578,032, and the net losses £296,055. The P. and L. account showed a divisible balance of £158,605, and the shareholders received a dividend of 12} per cent. The total assets of the company on the 3ist of December last wore £5,401,343.
We have received the May issue of the "St. John's Echo." The leading article, by "F. L. H. P.," deals with the working of the Chinese Exclusion Act at San Francisco. The writer does not touch on the policy of excluding Chinese labourers, but what he says on the way in which Chinese are treated whom the Treaty professes to admit, and who are provided with proper passports, seems almost incredible. Various _pretexts are adopted to prevent the landing of Ghinese students. "Everyone who comes is treated as a liar and a cheat until he can prove the contrary. When papers are all in order, several days of detention in loathsome surroundings must be passed before the right of admission is grudgingly accorded." Chinese I merchants are treated in an even more high-handed manner. When Mr. Wang Kai-kah was leaving San Francisco to ro. turn to China to escort Prince Pu Lun to St. Louis, "a large number of Chinese merchants went on board the steamer at San Francisco to show their respect and to bid him farewell. When they attompted to return to shore, they were told that they had already left' the Ni States, and could not re-enter. They must stay on board and be carried back to their country. It was not without considerable difficulty that finally they obtained por-mission to land, In the case of Chinese ladies similar indignities are enacted. Recently the Customs officials in San Francisco, in the rudest manner possible, tried to insist that a Chinese lady married to an American citizen should be registered before ig the country. When we ook an explanation of such proceedings, we are told that all the actions of the Customs officials are closely scrutinisod by spies employed by Trades Unions, and that if anyone is seen acting with common courtesy, or in any way assisting a Chinese seeking admission into the Land of Froedom, he is immediately reported to the Trades Unions, and pressure is brought to bear by the Unions for his dismissal from the service."
Nearly four pages are devoted to College News of all kinds, much of it of interest to outsiders also; and th the address of Mr. K. S. Wong, Secretary of the Imperial Railway Administration, to the Alumni Association on the 16th of April last, @ good practical speech. Mr. KF. Chang concludes hit article "Chinese Punishment," and notes some of the prevalent abuses in the administration of justice in China. Mr. Y. T. Tsur writes with force on the Chinese Exclusion Bill, and shows that its working injures the Americans as much as the Chinese. Mr. Y. Y. Tsu describes the good that has been done and is being done by " The New Literature of China," but hopes that it will never be divorced from religion. Mr. Z. T. Yin writes long and appreciative article on " Japanese Influence," and considers the good it has done (1) among scholars, (2) among the ruling class, (3) among merchants and farmers, (4) among soldiers, and (5) upon the Chinese mind in general. He shows that China has nothing to fear from Japan, who cannot but derive st herself from every increase in China's strength. The last article is by Mr. T.
Dzung, and is headed, "The First Step of China's Independence." He laments bitterly the present condition of his country; but his remedy is not revolution, but the training of men who will be independent. "Though to gain national independence," he says, "by manufacturing independent individuals is a process slow and seemingly unimportant, yot the independence of the nation obtained will be permanent and sure, and though the process is tedious, yet it is practical every one.. May China have more manufacturers of independent individuals rather than revolutionists."
We have duly received from the Hydrographic Office of the U. S. Naval Department the June issue of the " Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean."
Tux May number of the National Service Journal, a paper devoted to the cause of compulsory military training in Great Britain, has reached us. As usual it contains many more or less interesting articles upon this subject, perhaps the most striking being one on the Compulsory Military Service in the Channel nds. Probably few people aroaware that compulsory service is enforced anywhere in the British Empire, but according to this article a militia of 1,800 men' is maintained by compulsory service. This force is officered by members of the loading families on the island:
Uxpen "Latest Nows," Saturday's "Echo de Chine" says that a supplementary credit of 24,000,000 francs (£960,000) has been laid ' before the Chamber for the dispatch and maintenance of a supplementary contingent of troops in Indo-China, Th same paper contains the minutes of the meeting of the French Municipal Council on the 26th ult., the principal matter in which is the regulation under which: licences are granted for automo-bilos, as agreed on by both Councils. It will be noted that no hard-and-fast speed limit is fixed, but drivers of automobiles "must conform to the exigencies of the traffic in general,.and particularly in passing intersections of streets, or sharp turns, and where the streets are narrow."
Torspay's " Echo de Chine" says that M. Millerand attacked the policy'of the French Cabinet. M. Combes replied and, in the course of the discussion, brought up the affair known as the " Chartroux millions. M. Combes asked for the adoption of the Order of the Day pure and simple, which was accepted by 313 votes to 250. The Chamber decided with the consent of M. Combes to appoint a commission of enquiry into the affair of the Chartroux millions.
Uxpzr "Latest Nows," this morning's "Echo do Chino" says that the date of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Convention has been postponed to the 20th of July—The Chamber has appointed a Commission of Enquiry into the Chartroux affair, composed of twenty members of the Opposition and twelve Ministerialists.
The same paper says that it is rumoured that Pei, the Namhoi magistrate who suicide. 7 absconded to Macao, has committed
We have received Tientsin and Chefoo papers with dates to the 7th and 10th respectively—Very good harvests are expected throughout North China—It is reported that thirty expert divers have been sent out from' St. Petersburg to recover the treasure which we have been assured is not on the Petropavlosk,—An electric light apparatus is being installed at the Russian Consulate of Chefoo—An American war correspondent named Hector Fuller has started from Chefoo in a junk for Port Arthur.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.