or Seerenizen 29, 1877 Li Hung-chang reports having caused grain to be brought from Manchuria, for the relict of the population aMlicted by famine, and solicits the remission of lekin duties upon' the importations. Large supplies have -also been sent from hence; but we fear there are greater obstacles than even lekin taxes, between the grain and the starving population of Shensi, There are no communications-nor means of conveyance. The Tientsin bund is literally covered with grain, but Hit does not seem to get any further. Indeed, has been found in'India that sending supplies; any. considerable distance into the country by means of animals is well-nigh impracticable, 'There is no fodder, because every other green crop has failed from the same cause as the corn; and the animals eat nearly as much as can carry. One difficulty, which exists in India, is absent here. The animals might be! utilized for" food' on the spot, if the Government would face such an expense; so that food {for their return journey need not: be calculated. Whereas the Hindoo would rather dle of starvaion than eat the bullock which is there used [both os a pack and draught: animal, Frost mi "Nomra-Cuma Dancy News" or Serrencuen 30, 1677 The Chefoo Autumn Meeting took place on ]the 17th and Isth September, instead of the 14th and 15th as originally arranged. The weather fon the 14th was so threatening and developed {into such a heavy storm of rain accompanied with thunder, that it was deemed advisable to postpone the races from the Friday and Saturday first selected, to the following Monday and Tuesday. Nothing could have been more propitious than the weather on Monday. A'cool northwest breeze tempering the influence of the sun's bright warm rays, made the alr on the course feel as brisk and as bracing as"could be desired; and punctual to the time -all those who were interested in the sport made their way to the grand stand. Some came by boat the beach opposite the course, and then met their chairs and were brought quickly to the rendezvous; others came in chairs from the foreign Seitlement across the country; othe preferred "the road" and gave their' hacks trot out to the stables. The Commander of HMS. Fly kindly sent some of the sailors to decorate the Grand Stand with flags, which Jadded much to its cheerful aspect; but this was} merely the frame of the picture which pleasingly composed' the centre of the assem lage collected to witness the races of Chefoo, The picture of course had its lights and shades. The lights being principally the pretty faces jand graceful figures of the ladies, which naturally threw. everything that could be imagined as unpretty and ungraceful into the most profound shade, and so much so that the light abounded more profusely than the shade, at one time threatened to dazzle the imprudently Inqulsitive: gazers who were too prone to Indulge the contemplation of the beauties of nature. Tt was not to be wondered at that, under th eyes of such encouraging spectators, more than ordinary animation was exhibited by the contending jockeys; and no doubt, if any could have got an insight into the hearis'of the ponies they have been probably discovered warming! under similar sentiments. There was no time, however, for disquisitions of this nature. The bell rings, and rings again. The Judge mounts the bench, and behold the termination of th meeting of 1877. Every one appeared gratified and though there was no musie to enliven. the entertainment the utmost harmony. prevailed, which was perhaps more efficacious in render~ ing everyone pleased.
Frost zo "Nowma-Cumma Dany News," ov Octostn 1, 1877 The China Mail says, although Hongkong] appears to have so far escaped from any serious typhoon on September 23, being the anniversary of the terrify cyclone of 1874—a fair share of rough weather seems to have visited the China Seas in the vicinity of the Island on. almost every side. The last mention of such an occur-Fence is by telogram—a gale having passed somewhere between Amoy and Foochow on or about September 21. The coasting steamer Taiwan appears to have suffered somewhat lsoverely by its force, having lost her foremast Jand all her boats during her down trip, Th Daily Press adds that the German bark, Mari Captain Burmeister, from Dunedin, NZ, met with some bad weather at the commencement Jot her voyage, by which she lost boats, passengers' galley, and received other damage; and in the China Sea on September 20, she was' overtaken fby a typhoon. The gale commenced at 6.10 am. fand lasted until 11 o'clock but she appears to have come through it without injury—the American three-masted schooner Rosina has been sold for $5,180. The purchasers are] Chinese, and they littend to take her to Macao) and put her under the Chinese flag.
Frost ne "Norru-Cuma Dany News," or Ocrosen 4, 1877 Only those to whom the natives of every Jand on the far side of this Red Sea are merely' "blacks" will fall to recognize in King John of Ethopla, whose game of ambition our Abyssinian Expedition helped to play, a striking and. picturesque. personage. As Kassa, Prince of 'Tigre, claiming equal descent with 'Theodorus: from 'King Solomon, he figured largely in the' 'Blue-books which" formed an exceedingly' {interesting but little read history of the events: which preceded the expedition; and that camp, the ancient capital of his)
Abyssinia, in 1873," of the King and his sorpoundings. The country,. its people, their [ways, and their faith, are not like any of the African types in other portions of the continent, and yet they are not "Oriental," as we loosely, [but always with the notion of Mahommedanism aching te It, employ that word. They remind Fe Testament Scriptures; the whole that ofthe tribes and the feuds
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