Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-21
THE ORIENT.
Hongkong Dates to June 22d, and Hoko-
hama Advices to July Sd.

Y
Hongkong Dates to June 22d, and Yoko-
hama Advices to July Sd.
The Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company's steamer Arabic arrived Sunday
at San Francisco from Hongkong via Yoke
hama, bringing China dates to June 22d
and Japan advices to July Sd.
CHINA.
The harvest prospects in China are said
to be very gloomy.
The dispute between the foreign arms
and native tea-men at Foochgw is st;iI mn.
settled, and no shipments haT,p vet been
made.
Ont night of the 18th Of June terrific
electric and rain-storln pissed over Hong
kong, lasting betw cen three and four hours.
Over ten inches of rain fell within the
twenty-four hours. in which the storm &C.
CURED, and caused immense damage to the
roads, running walls and property generally.
There were also several heavy landslips.
A hospital for women, namely, the Mar
garet Williamson Memorial Hospital, was
opened at Shanghai on the Sd of June.
This is the first womens hospital opened
III China
Several foreign firms in China are reduc-
ing the salaries of their foreign assistants.
The step is naturally causing discomfort
among those concerned.
The China Mail of June 11th says: The
/ Chinese are about to commence railroads
at last. Last January contract was made
with the Manchester syndicate for the ma
| terial for laying and working a road from
| Talu to Tungchow. The contractors are
to find the foreign superintendent for lay
! ing it and working it. The Chinese are to
! Ia 10 lph rot tI,a
! Chinese soldiers are to be emplOyed-that
is work to whieh they are accustomed. We
presume the line is to be worked on ac-
| count of the Government. So the interest
and capital will be repayable by the Gov
eminent. The treaty customs revenues
will of course be hypothecated; therefore,
| the more treaty revenues there may be the
better for all concerned.
| Another murder occurred in HOngl<ong
on June 9th, Chinese gardener being set
| upon by four men and beaten to death.
The object of the crime in this instance
appears to have been revenge, or summary
vengeance for real or imaginary injury
supposed to have been done by the de-
ceased man to young girl who was be-
trOthed to one Of the perpetrators of the
crime or one Of their friends.
Cholera has appeared III LOo-choo, and
there is some indication that it may spread.
1t is stated that the Chinese have decided
to lay telegraph line from Tientsin to
Ninsen, and special Commissioner has
been appointed to carry out the scheme.
The Chinese Government has been large
buyers Of copper, the Consul at Yokohama
having recently closed one transaction in
which he acquired 100000 kin of that
metal.
JAPAN.
A statement has been made that the re-
cent Immigrants to Hawaii are disconnected
with the place, and that numerous deaths
among them have occurred. immigration
to Hawaii has therefore been prohibited
pending an inquiry instituted into the al
legged Entertainment by sugar planters Of
japanese immigrants.
About this time last year the stock OF
tea at y ok0hama was estimated at 100000
| kin, and new tea was sold TO the amount of
I, 100000 kin, against the stock of 1000, 900
kin and 7,3G0,0 900 kin sold this year. This
years crop has shown a marked improve
ment upon that for the preceding year, and
tea dealers have generally obtained good
profits
The Army Department intends to con-
struct fifty new forts and rebuild all forts
d now existing, 50 as TO make the coast de-
lenses OF the country more efficient; and
900 heavy guns from seventeen TO twenty
|
mounted on these forts, more than OUe-hGif
of which have been ordered from Messrs
| krupp, and the remainder will be made at
the Osaka arsenal.
The distress of the people in Nligata is so
serious that there are over thu &c thousand
unoccupied houses in the town. The city
of kioto IS said to be infested with 10000
beggars coming from the neighboring as
well as remote provinces.
A gold mine has been discovered at Nosh-
iro AkiJa Prefecture.
| Kerosene oil has been discovered at Cen
doiimura Kubikigori, Ycchigo.
The first new silk arrived in Yokohama
on June 18th, and is reported sold at 1865
per picul.
Hitherto any person going abroad has
been required to apply to the authorities Tor
a passport only, but now a new tormalitv
has been added, requiring the applicant to
forward at the same time a written state
ment giving an outline of his past history
and the object of his journey abroad.
a coal mine recently discovered in Nj
shimote Island, Okinawa, is now being
worked on a large scale.
4 medical school for the education Of
army surgeons is shortly to be established.
Eighty-one women, wives or daughters
Of telegraph employees, are now under
training as operatives at telegraph Offices.
The Postal Bureau contemplates lower
ing the rate of postage on newspapers and
books and introducing the parcel post sys-
tenn.
The damage caused by the recent over
flow Of the Yobo river in Osaka Flu is so
serious that in the single district of Higa-
shinari-gori it is stated to be as follows :
Forty-one villages, containing 1851 houses,
were flooded, and fields to the extent of
about ?, 100 cho were more or less damaged.
The notification announcing the resump-
ton Of specie payments from next Janu-
rary has been received with general rejoic-
ing by the commercial classes in Japan.
| COREA.
The son of the deposed King of Corea