Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-22
ORIENTAL NEWS.
The Latest Items of Interest from China
and ,Ianan

and Japan.
By the steamer Rio de Janeiro, which
arrived at San Francisco. Sunday, Yoko-
hama and Hongkong papers were received
from which the following was cleaned:
JAPAN.
From the Japan Heald and 1Eaa of June
ID
The private Secretary of the President of
the Cabinet. has been ordered to investi-
gate into the matter connected with the
adoption of foreign children. or foreigners,
as sons-in-law.
Prince Louis Napoleon is still in Japan,
but IS at present on a tour in the country.
Cholera is making considerable progress
in Osaka aud the neighborhood, and all
vessels arriving here from the infected dis
tricts have TO undergo medical inspection.
Captain Parker, the new United States
Minister to Corea, left here for his post by
the L. S. S. Palos, on the 26th of May
The American yacht Brunhilde, on a
voyage around the world, arrived here on
the 18th ult
The case of Captain Fullert, convicted of
assisting Paymaster Watkins, L. s. n, to
desert has again come before the Court on
an application for writ of habeas corpus.
The Court-martial trying Paymaster Wat
kins commenced on the 9th of May, and
is expected to last for some weeks.
A captain in the Russian army has come
to Japan to investigate the military system
of this country.
Messrs. TaShiro and several other gentle
men in Sendal have applied TO the authori-
ties for permission to establish a company
to contract for the construction of railways.
The extension of the Osaka-Sakai Rail
way across the Gamato-gawa into the town
of Sakai has been all but decided upon.
Osaka is greatly infested at present by
beggars, and several deaths from sheer
starvation are reported to have taken place
The students of the Normal School in
Shimane Prefecture have begun to wear
foreign clothes.
A telegram from Marugame, dated the
18th of May, states that seventeen cases of
cholera were reported on that date in the
town of Marugame and eleven in neigh
boring villages.
The shaft on the Kyoto-Biwa canal has
been sunk to depth of 146 feet and the
tunnel is being excavated from that point
east and west.
The Nippon Railway Company proposes
to connect all the stations on the present
line of the company by telephone instead
of by telegraph, and expects to save con-
siderable sum Of money annually in con-
sequence.
The Fiji Shimpo says In Yokohama
written contracts have of late become Il
necessary means for the carrying out OF
bargains ter the sale of japanese goods
Till recently orders from foreign firms were
accepted on condition that the desired arti-
Giles shou d be delivered on q fixed date,
but japanese merchants have hitherto been
often found to sell goods, previously Or
dered from one firm, to another, in conse-
quence of quotations having risen i'll the
meantime.
a school for training nurses Is 10 be es-
tablished at Kyoto, and lady is coming
from Boston to take charge of it.
The conference for the revision of Japan's
foreign treaties is expected to result in a
speedy conclusion. 1t is stated that the
principal features of tie proposed scheme
are slight changes in the existing tariff the
opening of few additional ports, and the
permission of mixed residence in Toxic
and other places.
CHINA.
From the China NdH of May 22d:
The British gunboat Nudge, Commander
RobiiliaTd, arrived here from Hollow to-
day.
We near on reliable authority that the
barriers III the Canton river, laid down dur
ing the Franco Chinese hostilities, will be
removed in a week or two. This decision
has no doubt been come TO on the satisfac-
tory completion of the commercial treaty
between France and China, negotiated at
Tientsin.
Truth hears that it is probable that the
Order of the Garter will be conferred upon
the Emperor of China. A telegram of the
18th of April stated that the Emperor was to
be decorated with ieweled order of the
Star of India.
The American frigate Trenton, Captain
R. L. Phythian, lately the flagship of Ad-
miral Davis, arrived in Hongkong this
evening. and on her entry saluted the port
and the Commodore. She is on her way
home via the Suez Canal.
From the Shanghai Courier of May 24th
Work is still going on at the wreck of
the Chinese gunboats at Sheipoo Roads.
We are informed that preparations have
been made for final lift, and that it is
hoped to soon have the vessels up.
-Four of the forty-ton guns have now
been taken away from the Associated
Wharves, that number completing the
Woosung Battery. The remaining four
are to be taken to kiang yam and mounted
there, but as the foundations are not quite
ready IOr tneIn, II Will De lew weeks DE-
fore they are moved
1t is stated that the Corean Government
has resolved on raising a national loan of
81 100000 in Germany.
AT the present time very few sailing ves-
sells come to this port, and sailors are not
so much in demand as they were in former
times, consequently the rate of wages is
much lower than it formerly was. Sea-
men have been procured here for the small
wage of S12 per month. In view of this
mariners ought to think twice before they
leave their ships in Shanghai.