From rhe "Nort Cuixa Dairy News." of NOVEMBER 14.
1877
The Hankowites were more fortunate than we were at their race mee which was held on November 8 9: they got through their meeting wit out rain. Everybody is said to be pleased at the result of the meeting, and even the losers don't growl, for the amounts staked in lotteries' and bets are not sufficient to trouble them. The Hankow market report says tea arrivals for the fortnight amo 19 1,00 chests, Settlements. nil. Ship-mani to Shanghai on Chinese account ior the fortnight, nil. This is the last issue of the report for the year, the being now at an end.
Her of Foochow says i i nest Chinese tha of Ws nationa calamities of late, such as famine, floods and "pestilence, ihe. youthful Emperor has been solicited ^o change his dynastic title, and thereby appease the wrath of the gods, who, t is argued, must be displeased with the reigning title of his Celestial Majesty The six gunboats of the Alpha class at present attached to the—Mamoi Arsenal fleet, went out for gun praetice on the sist ultimo. Hitherto, the crews have not had many opportunities of distinguishing themselves as marine artillerists, and we trust, however, that their new-born activity wi not result in any fatal accident. These 38-ton guns really require very careful handling, and the directors of the "infant navy" do not apparently believe in modern surgery or surgical apphanoes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.