The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-02-14
LATE NEWS BY o. d o.
S. s. BELGIC.
Smallpox is Prevalent al
Shanghai.

Smallpox is prevalent amongst
the Chinese at Shanghai, especially
amongst children, and the mortality
is reported to be heavy.
At the Hongkong Criminal Sessions
on the 18th inst. the Chief Justice
was presented with pair of white
gloves, there being no cases for trial.
A petition against the proposed
gaol extension has been presented by
the Chinese community of Hongkong
to the Government, through the
Registrar General.
The Emperor of Japan has contri-
buted 100 guineas to the funds of the
Japan Society in London.
Lieut.. Otto Ehlers, the German
traveller, was accorded an audience
by the Emperor of japan on the 9th
ult.
By the explosion of boiler in
silk factory at Suwa, Japan, four OF
the workpeople were killed and forty
five injured.
Last months crushing at the Pun
JON mine gave DAB ounces of gold
from 260 tons. the mill running only
sixteen days.
1t is reported that new line of
steamers between Liverpool, BARGE
Iona and Manila is to be established
by Barcelona firm, who are said to
have purchased five large steamers
in England for the purpose.
Owing to the recent death from
hydrophobia at Hongkong, the police
are now Selling all stray dogs.
Excitement continues to run high |
In Japan in reference to the collision
between the Ravenna ana the Chi
shima Kan.
The Ichang Taotai has issued
proclamation warning the people not
to modest the foreign officers Of the
Customs.
The Court Circular in the Picking
Gazette of the 18th ult. says: "To-
day His Majesty assembled the Throne
in the Cheng Kuang Tien and re-
ceived in audience the British Minis
ter, O'Connor."
1t is reported that the Provincial
Authorities at Foochow, owing to the
difficulty of getting a suficiency of
coin from the Canton Mint, which
cannot keep pace with the demand,
are thinking of establishing a mint
of their own.
We understand that the British
North Borneo Company have agreed
to grant the Eastern Extension Tele-
graph Company special privileges in
connection with the landing of a
cable at Labuan, and that they have
offered to give the company large
grant of land, and Office and staff
accommodation.
Charles Edward Miller, who was
formerly in the employ of the China
and Japan Trading Company Qim-
ited), at Kobe, has been sentenced to
four years imprisonment for en-
bezzling the company's funds. His
total defalcations amounted to about ;
$4,000, but having pleaded guilty to
a charge in which the amount was
$4,000, the other charges against him
were not proceeded with.
a Macao contemporary reports that !
a gang of pirates short time ago
formed scheme to pirate the Hong
kong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat
Company's steamer Heungshan on
her voyage from Hongkong to Macao,
but that the scheme miscarried owing
to some of the pirates missing their i
passage. c
The following telegram, dated
Tokyo, LIST instant, appears in an
Osaka paper: "The Committee of
he Naval Department has decided I
hat the Chishima disaster was Il
caused through the neglect of her 4
rev. On the 18th instant, or there il
about, the Naval Minister will an Fl
lounce the sentence against the I
Jhishima survivors. The penalty is q
believed not to be heavy. 4
The Belmont silver mine, which is Il
,wned by company at Shanghai, q
viii it is stated, probably be leased "
n terms which will relieve the COM y
any of its present embarrassment. u
The Japanese pilot who was in 70 e
barge of the Rayenna at the time of u
be collision with the Chishima Kan
as been committed for trial by the
alive authorities on a charge of
omicide. 80
Although the tea trade at Foo h,
how last year again showed con- T,
.action, it is stated to have been on =
le whole profitable to those engag- y"
i in it, owing to the cheaper cost on
nd lower exchange. al
Victor Valazie, parachutist, was al
lied at Saigon on the Sth inst. WI
hilst giving a performance. He he
st his hold of the trapeze and fell it
ON a height variously stated at 70
ON 600 to over 1000 feet and crash fe
through the roof of brewery. bc
The Bangkok Times says MIR. he
harp, of 81. S. NJ. S. Rsiakumar, M,
ct with very serious accident %
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