The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-01

l ne steamship Dei5Ic, w alktI HlaSteI, az
rived from China and Japan at an early
! hour yesterday morning. The following
summary is taken from HOng-Kong paper;
of February Sd and from Yokohama ex-
changes of February 11th
China.
An attempt was made to set fire to the
| c. n. Co.'S river steamer Pekin. just be-
fore the vessel started from Shanghai a
bunch of lighted papers was discovered be-
hind a tier of bales, two of which were par
TALLY burned The incident has created a
! strong suspicion that the burning of the
Shanghai, by which more than 200 people
lost their lives. was the work of incendia-
riSm.
A small branch line, eleven miles long.
has been added TO the Iientsin-Taku rail-
way.
The Chinese Government has issued writ
| ten instructions to the three VlcerOyS at
Tientsin, Marking and Wuehang, ortiarin z
them TO give the CZarewitch BETTING re-
ception. He is 20 be met at Chefoo by Lii
Hung Chang and at Shanghai by the &C ting
Vlceroy Of the Two Kiang
The Shanghai Mercury says it Is officially
informed that Chang Chi lungs conduct in
reference to the visit of the Czarewuch has
| occasioned his superiors in Picking the
gravest runfasineSS, and that orders have
been issued to the Viceroys at Tientsin,
Marking and Wuchang to meet the imperial
visitor with every mark of respect. Our
contemporary further believes that the Pc
king Government, IN its eagerneSS to make
the anTende honorable to the CZarewitch as
complete as possible, intends to instruct the
acting Viceroy at Marking to come to
Shanghai to welcome the imperial visitor,
distinction as unique as it is: significant of
tile desire of the Chinese to keep on the
best possible terms with Russia. ~
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United States, has been promoted by royal
edIct to be Director of the Court Of Appeals.
!. n knot OF Chinese spectators who aimed
at pr0hting by scarcity of rice at .Surabayd
have come to grief. The Surabaya C0urant
says that when once it became known that
the rice crop in the neighUoring districts
was likely to fail famine expected
Chinese syndicates lost no time in import
Ing heavy stocks of grain from Siam,
Saigon, etc, in the hope Of high profits from
the starving people, but disappointment be-
fell them, owing to the tapioca crops in the
stricken districts proving abundant enough
to meet the scarcity OF food. The import
ers now find all this foreign rice on their
hands with every chance of losing largely
BY the speculation, as The Siam rice, Tor III
stance deteriorateS with long keeping.
William Keeblp, Assistant Examine iii
tile Chinese Customs Service at Lungch ow,
went to Hong Kong on January 10Th to be
married to young woman who came from
E0SianQ. i ney TeluTUtu 10. LuHScHnW. Out
were murdered on the border of TOnquin
by pirates.
Syed Mohamed Alsag0ff, who has long
been one of the best-kn0Wn ASlatlc mer-
chants in Singapore, left that colony in the
steamer PeSeidQn of the AuStro-H Hungarian:
hloyds for his home in. Arabia recently.
The Poseidon: is a steamer $50 feet long, 1
with magnificent passenger accommodation,
the whole of which was taken up by Syed
Mohamed for htniself and his household, $50
souls in all. The price he paid for the
passage from Singapore to Jeddah was 5000.
-: Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong and ShanghaiBduk has
made S., 600 profit during the last half
year. 1t is proposed to pay dividend of
50 shillings, together with bonus of 80
slHilIings a. share. placing $500, 600 to the
reserve fund, writing 100000 off property 1
account, and carrying forward S125,00o. =.
Information has been received by. the Pam
jom Mining Company, that a remittance OF
goo; is to be sent monthly on Dehaif of the /
Baby Punjom Company, for the working oil
the Jalai mine. Operations nave afreaay-
begun. - =
The Jockey Club have passed a rule EN-
powering them to call OH members whose.
conduct has discredited the club to resign.
The jubilee celebrations were concluded
last week.
At the meeting Of sha.:Dairy Farm Com
pany, prospect was held out of a dividend !
being paid neXtyear.
Tie Hong Kong. Canton, and Macao
Steamboat Company are only able to pay a
dividend of 6.peT cent for last half year duh
trade and compe titon having diminished 4
profits. -, :,
In the barracks among the police and
officers OF tire Jail and in the colony gen.
orally. there is a great deal OF sickness of an
Influenza type, due probably to the change
abeness of the weather. and the absence of
any real winter. -. - =
. Da Cruz who was sentenced to seven
years penal servitude for Cooperating in
Beitran's theft of S5o,00O by forging the
name of the Spanish Consul, was liberated
on Jubilee day, after having scarcely Gem
pleted half his term. He is a broken-down
man, and the Jail authorities mercifully
did not keep him longer todie in their hands,
Several tens of thousands of boxes of tea
from Tanisui are now laid up in Annoy: The
foreigners are unwilling to buy, while the
Chinese, though hard pressed for money,
would not sell at loo low a. figure. This
deadlock has very pernicious effects, and
several cash banks are: on the verge oil
failure. =.