The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-09
FROM THE ORIENT.
LATE NEWS BY O. Dc 0.
S. s. BELGIC.
Smallpox is Prevalent at
Shanghai.


of January 18th and 18th:
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 a
silk factory at Suwa, Japan, four Of
the workpeople were killed and forty
five injured.
Last months crushing at the Pun
JONI mine gave 243 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 and the Chi
shima Kan.
The Ichang Taotai has issued a
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."
It is reported that the Provincial
Authorities at Foochow, owing to the
difficulty of getting sufficiency of
coin from the Canton Mint, which
cannot keep pace with the demand,
are thinking of establishing mint
of their own.
he Pr,f .ol,
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
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 a 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
passage.
The following telegram, dated
Tokyo, LIST instant, appears in an
Osaka paper "The Committee of
the Naval Department has decided
that the Chishima disaster was
caused through the neglect of her
crew. On the 14th instant, or there
about, the Naval Minister will an
nounce the sentence against the
Chishima survivors. The penalty is
believed not to be heavy.
The Belmont silver mine, which is
owned by a company at Shanghai.
will it Is stated, probably be leased
on terms which will relieve the COM
pany of its present embarrassment.
The Japanese pilot who was in
charge of the Ravenpa at the time of
the collision with the Chishima Kan
has been committed for trial by the
native authorities on charge of
homicide.
Although the tea trade at Foo
chow last year again showed con-
traction, it is stated to have been on
the whole profitable to those engag-
ed in it, owing to the cheaper cost
and lower exchange.
Victor Vaiazie, a parachutist, was
killed at Saigon on the Sth inst.
whilst giving performance. He
lost his hold of the trapeze and fell
from height variously stated at
from 600 to over 1000 feet and crash
ed through the roof of a brewery.
The Bangkok Times says Mr..
Sharp, of FL. S. NJ. S. Rajakumar,
met with very serious accident
whilst handling some dynamite and
guncotton cartridges at Koh ST.
chang on Christmas Day, when in
some unaccountable manner an ex-
plosion took place SCATTERING his left
hand and injuring his left eye.
A birth of bankruptcies is reported
from near Shanghai.
The Chinese Consulate at Jinsen
is reported to have been attacked by
a mob of Koreans owing to Korean
coolie having been killed by Chi
nese merchant. The attack does not
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