Demands were sent on Thursday afternoon to their managers by the employees of all of the Chinese newspapers in Shanghai, the men threatening, unless their wages were increased within 36 hours, to walk out. From what have been able to learn, trouble has been impending for some time by the employees of the printing departments of the different papers and the tenial workers, but so far the members of the editorial staffs have not shown any signs of supporting them.
Cuinese tenants in Chapel are again complaining of the bad water which is being supplied to them. Apart from being dirty and muddy, the supply, it is again asserted, is full of insects, germs, "frogs, fish and_ shrimps," and sometimes the supply, is cut off for days ate time. Unless this state of affairs 18 rectified they threaten to stop paying their house rent, which includes the water supply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.