INTELLIGENCE FROM CHINA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1710, 13 August 1879, Page 3

INTELLIGENCE FROM CHINA.

HONG KONG, June 10. The British barque Black Prince left hero for Foo Chow to load for the colonies. The barque Phillipine is loading here for Melbourne at £1 3s per ton of fifty cubic feet, thirty lay days. Business in the tea market at Canton has been steady during the interval, and prices have advanced. The now teas show an improvement in quality. At Foo Chow the new crop is arriving, but it is inferior in quality to last year’s. At Hankow the Russian purchases to date of advices exceeded those for the English market by 20,000 half chests.

The City of Pekin brought from Yokohama last week a large shipment of Japanese goods for Sydney Exhibition. On the 22nd ult., a considerable portion of the Bund wall at Amoy subsided, and placed a good many buildings in jeopardy. Governor Hennessy left Hong Kong for Japan on a short leave of absence. The last act in the Kate Waters tragedy was played on the 28th ult., when three men found guilty of the murder of the captain, mates, and three Chinese of the crow, suffered the extreme sentence of the law in front of Yictoria gaol, Hong Kong. The Rev, John Archibald, of the Bondon Missionary Society, and his colleagues, were very unfavorably recoived in the capital town of Hunan. The missionaries were received with stones and other missiles wherever seen.

The Chinese predict that Amoy will this year be visited by a typhoon. They base their prediction on tho unusually large number of insects which .have made their appearance this spring. Plague is still prevalent outside the western gate of Canton. SHANGHAI, June 6. A carrier pigeon postal service has been successfully organised between Ohinkiang and this port. The flight takes from five hours to twelve hours, if windy. General Grant and party arrived at Shanghai on 17th ult. On the 19th a grand torchlight procession took place, when a Chinese bomb exploded, killing one Chinaman and wounding two Europeans.

At Pekin the other day an eagle swooped suddenly upon a large oat, and took it up in tho air, but the tables were very soon turned when the cat began to bury its claws into the bird’s bosom, and despite all the eagle could do the oat held fast, and the result was they both came to the earth, the struggle ending fatally for tho eagle. H.M.S. Iron Duke got aground at Woo sung, and the assistance of several gunboats and tugs had to be obtained before the vessel was got off.