Daily Colonist (1884-12-27) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1884-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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CUIA A.

Hongkong Mail, N .v. Utli: .-Vccord-ing to our telegra|diic advices from the niirth, a council ot the miiiisters of all the chief doparlmeiits at I'ekiiig was held to conaider tho conditions of iie.ice oll'i reii by France, ami it faded to recoinineiHl their adoption. There is good reason to bulievo, however, that tho liegotiatiouM .ue Still being Continued, and no donhi liuih France and China would be vi!ry .del to arrive at a sett leimMil .

Measra Jardine, iMathesoii A Co. ari' reported to have concluded a loan lor 5,000,000 taels willi the Chinese government at 7 per cent.

.Assaults on missionaries and foreign ors continue to occur througlioiit China; so far, however, no niurders have taken [daco.

It ia atated tliat Li 11 ung <Jh iiig lias purchased from Mesara. Schmidt it Co., a Qerman houae eatablished at Tieiitaiii, arms to the value of 1(!0,000 taels

It ia rumored among the (-'hiiiese here that tho Chinese government inteiiils Im hand ever the island of Laiilai), only a few miles diatant from Hongkong, to the tier-man govuriiinent. If tliia rniiior he realized Hongkong will have hard work to maintain its position as a leading coininer cial depot in the far East.

The OliiiUise government is still extctid-ing its telegraphic conimunication.'i. lioi-how, on tlio island of Hainan, in the south, is to be coiiniiected by ealde with Paklioi, on tbo mainland.

There has been some insubordination among the Ohinese truopf near Kusan Hsisen, and several of them have had their heads cut off. It originated in aoiue squeeze of the officers withholdini; pay, etc.

A collision, attended with fatal con.te-quoncoa, occurred at Manila on the evening of November 5tli, between the ateani or« Bulunn and Maria, hotli Spanish. lii loss than a ininute after the colliainn the Maria had sunk in deep water. Eij;lily-three persona biilmiging to iku crew and passongera were aav. d by those on board the Butuan, which remained by tho wreck until the following mornins; It is be -liovod Rome twenty-one persona [itiriahcd by tho collision. AmonL; the .saved is tlu; caplaiii, who had received a aevere cul on the head.

JAPAN.

Yokohama, Nov. 2.S—From a return recently issued : he iiiiinbc^r of schoola in the eiiiliire is saiii to be dO,(i('i"2, which are attended by ;i,0;)a.<H8 scholars.

Tho Japanese gove-riimeiil. has remitted the indemnity of .^400,000, which was payable by Corpa, in conaeiiuence of the attack on the Japanese Legation at Seoul.

The country appears to have iigiiin ipiiet-ed down, and we hear no more of riots, although liie complaints of [aiverty and ilis-trcKS are still prevalent.

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