fo Into dock hongkong, according to that the vessel was Icentrat Trust of China, which i sured the vessel, of the accident, and will despatch engineers from its freight and the pamsnsors hugeaye have can staly transferred, some to the s, Halle for Canton, and the rest to godowns In Hongkong, Tue population of Canton in Aprit In China To-day according to the latest statistics, was 1,225,251.
Tue province of Fukien will build four modern goals Foochow, Amoy, Chienao and Lunghsi, The Centrar Government wilt supply fof the necessary sum of money.
Tue Central Gow ing has decided quarantine stati Fukien, ax a part of its service, according to the Pao."
Tue death oveurred at Cosham. England, on May 20. of Mr, William MacArthur" Cameron, who was for many years a missionary in China. Deceased Is survived by his widow fand two 'A. nevonr from Isuehow to the shun Pao says that mets than a score of persons there have lately been arrested on suspicion f havi leprosy. For the time bons, these persons are being isolated, addition 40 the $3,000,000 goto bonds {0 be issued for the develop-went of the port of Whampoa on the Pearl River in Canton, the port thorities are also. secking anoth Joan of $8,000,000, says the "Ct Times."
Tum: National Government, says the Ching Times." will, beginnings July 1 ext, set aside $6,000,000 a year, $500,000 monthly, (or national relict measures. The sum represents prnetically two per cent. of the Ixrexse heat hasbeen felt Chenin during the past few. days, The temperature has been re= ustering 95 degrees (Fahrenheit) indoors and the water level of the river is gelling low. Chungking also reports great heat. drilling purposes.
Gex. Yen Hsi-shan, Pacification Commissioner of Shansi and Sule yuan, Ik is reported, is applying, to the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications, and' the Farmers Bank, for n Joan of $5,000,000 10 com= plete' the proposed Shansi-Suiyuan Railway.
Jaraxtse: in Manchuria and Johot are building many defence works, fand since early this year, more than 160,000 Chinese labourers have been contracted to work on these projects, In Heilungkiang and Jehol. Most the contract Iabourers have been re-emited from the poorest class of Chinese in north China, says the "Lik Pao, to Tientain reports to the the mystery surrounding recent: months has bee Two tipe, or local nie beet faked to dispose of too many victims heroin and other dens, they did the best they could, whi dump them into the water, slate coun= Republic who vat military according to the "National Herald." Gen, 1st, Cantonese, is the first to be buried in "the new cemetery, which Was comploted but a short time ago, imsrst: students in Hongkong will rot be allowed to take the matriculi=
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