Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-23
CHINA AND JAPAN.
Arrival of the San Pablo from Honckonc
and Yokohama.

and Yokohama.
The steamer San Pablo arrived at San
Francisco yesterday morning from Hong
kong and Yokohama with dates to. Nav
| Dist and June 5th:
| CHINA.
The larger steamer-owners connected
| with the China coast trade have resolved to
| reduce the salaries paid to engineers The
scale proposed by the owners is: Chief en-
| gineerS, $3.50; second engineers, 500: and
| third engineers, SO per month The re-
| duction is to be resisted by the engineers.
| A collision has occurred between the
| coasting steamer Tientsin and the Glen
eagles in the Shanghai river, the former
| running into the latter while she was at
anchor carrying away all her aft gear and
knocking in several of her plates.
The Picking correspondent of the Chinese
.Had says There have been strange do
| ings in the Liu Yeh Flu, or Palace of the
Sixth Prince-Prince kung. Deviltry is at
work. The Prince has room which he
uses as a treasury. and this is full of sycee.
| Lately the shoes of sycee have flown
into the air of their own accord taken to
| themselves wings, as riches are said to do
| and when the attendants rushed to shut the
| door, all the shoes in the place flew out
| being too quick for mortal man to impede
| their flight. Supernatural flames, too, have
| been bursting out of the Princes ward
| robes, or chests, and destroying some of his
! richest garments. Noorigin can be traced;
| the fire just breaks out of itself Your
readers may not credit this, but it is a fact
that both Prince Kung and his SOL have
had to leave the Palace and take up their
! quarters somewhere else
Any bystander requested to assist at fire
inSingapore is bound to obey the order, or
pay fine of $50.
HoNGKoNG.
The Government proposes in future to
issue bills of health, through the Health
Officer eX otiicio, for a fee of So instead of
| $40, thus remedying an abuse under which
ship-owners and ship-captains have long
suffered. 1t is intended to further reduce
the fare.
Preparations for representing Hongkong
at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition are
! in progress, and list of exhibits has been
prepared.
JAPAN
4 notification has been issued forbidding
| newspapers to publish leading articles from
contemporary columns without consent,
until ten days have elapsed from the date OF
original publication. 1t is understood that
this prohibition is directed against regu-
lar system OF piracy which lately came into
vogue.
An illustrated journal called the Kaishin
.Shin,jun has been twice suspended during
the past fortnight for publishing stories
calculated to iDjure the reputation of a For
eign Minister.
A scheme is receiving official promotion
for the increased rearing of orange trees in
Kagoshima Prefecture, the object being to
supplement the scanty means of the Shia-
oku in that district.
A line of tramway will soon be COM
meneed between Toxic and Shinagawa.
Changes in the organization of the
japanese army are said to be contemplated.
According to q recent return, there are in
the Empire l,472 police stations, 2,9S6 In
spectors and y, 507 Constabes.
tits stated that daily service OF steamers
between Yokohama and Kobe is in con-
temptation by the Mitsu Bishi Company.
An exhibition of pigeons and doves was
held at Osaka on the 10Th ultimo. 1t is
said that some of the birds exhibited were
valued at as much as $50 yen a couple.
The vernacular press estimates that the
silk crop this year will be at least 20 per
cent. below the average.
The treaty concluded by Count Ito and
the Viceroy Ii, at Tientsin, has been rati-
fed by the soyereigns OF China and Japan,
and published