The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-12-21
CHINA AND JAPAN.
Summary of Current News from the
Orient.


has prevailed have been officially de
clared free of the disease during the
past month
The authorities contemplate erecting
a fort at Tel asthma which will en-
tirely comman the channel that leads
to Kobe.
The Tokaido railway will be com
pleted from Kanagawa to Sakawagawa
next year in time TO open the line to
the latter point in July.
The steamers of the Nippon Yusen
Kaisha, plying between Nagasaki and
Vladovstock and Tienstin are reported
to be carrying full cargoes every
voyage.
Mr.. Sawa, Chief Commissioner of
the Record Bureau in the Home
Office, has been appointed to take
charge Of the committee to investigate
the press laws.
The Tramway Company is now
making preparations to construct a
branch line from Kudan to Nihonbashi,
where it connects with the main line in
front of Echigoys.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha being
about to run regular mail line TO
ports in the Inland Sea, eleven of their
most powerful steamers have been
selected for the service.
The direct shipments of tea made by
the producers of Shiga Ken having
been entirely successful, they have re.
solved to engage in the business on an
extensive scale.
1t is intimated from the Spanish
Charge d'Affaires to the Foreign Office
that owing to the departure of Mr.
Wolff, acting Spanish Consul at Yoko-
hama, Mr.. Non Kreitner, Consul for
Austro- Hungary, is authorized to sue
coed him.
The Yamashiro Tea Preparing Com
pany is said to have made arrange
ments with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
for the carriage of its tea to America
next season.
CHINA
The military school recently erected
at Tientsin has been transferred tC
Peking.
The sugar industry of Formosa, ont
!, Of the largest, if not the largest, indus
u try on the island, is threatened by
6 proposal emanating from Japan. A
S present it is estimated that japan con
n sumes some S3,ooo,ooo pounds O
{ sugar annually, most Of which come
= from Formosa, and Japanese pape
e now asserts that the whole requirement,
re ofthat country might be supplied b
3 the Liu Chiu Islands.
RS The British despatch vessel Aacrit,
id recently commissioned for service o
Al this station, arrived on the Goth ms
It's predecessor, the Vigilant, has no
:" been converted into cargo boat fl
iy Chinese.
u On the a5th ultimo, a Chinese cool
&c who had attempted to pilfer SON
RS wood from the British steamer Ham,
,e shire, net his death by falling into tt
u, hold of junk while engaged in tn
- sic with the boatswain of the steam,
ay for the possession of the wood. II
boatswain was at first arrested on
'h charge of manslaughter, but after eS
Is dence had been given at Coroner
'e' inquest, at which verdict of accide
10 tai death was returned, he was reles
nc ed He was allowed to lie on the sh
ny for five hours before he died witho
IN any medical assistance being called.
lie The Victoria Steam Laundry c.
We the second company who have essay
,er to make washing by machinery ST
ID cess in Hongkong, have decided
Ike close. their establishment as soon
list possible, the work being carried on
yer present at a loss of about $500
he month.
dr. On the night of the a3d ultimo t
use crew of Chinese junk was render
Id hers de dOmbaf by Chinese custo
be cruiser. Ween the junk was just
Ing Cape Collision Lighthouse, the sou
eastern point Of the island, the crui
Mr. came up to it. Seeing what the b.
the was, the crew of the junk, with the
lily ception of one man, retired to the h,
e to show that they did not intend
wer offer any resistance. This action see
the to have been misunderstood by
ngs crew of the cruiser, who threw a sti
ner pot into the hold. The stinkpot
ltu- ploded packet of gunpowder, VIII
IN had the effect of killing five men c
Der right and wounding two Others, I
an cruiser then steamed off without of
the ing to render any assistance to
S In wounded men.
News was received on the ?
u'tlmo of the laundering of the Brit
steamer Normanton, off Oshima on
G Z last of Japan. There is no word
Malt to whether there was any loss of life