EASTERN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1811, 3 November 1888, Page 1

EASTERN NEWS.

Sydney, .November 1. Eastern news per steamer at Thursday Island :—. . ..,; ~,,-i October 15. A-Tientsin paper publishes a latter from i an official at the Emperor's Court at Pekin, stating that if the Chinese-; Exclusion Billj is passedby ths United States, China wilt | have no option but to prohibit the landing* "of"Am i ßricßn3 in-her territoryV and (h'st| should this step not have the desired! effect,- China wouldltbenc&ncel.aU' treaties j entered : into with; iAbaerica;. rectilt her I subjects living in the States, expel nil! Americans from China,- nnd-cease "to"hTatd i intercourse. wilh'Jhe'-lilnited States. >'•■" -;: Serious trouble -is impendiug witrr th« j Native ruler ia one quarter of the British ' Borneo Company's territory. . There is great distress in Hba'n and North Tbrivl, owing to autumn freshets, which have turned the country into'a'huge sea. ; ' A 6re at Yokohama dockyard destroyed: a large factory,and modelling house, with machinery of great value., Two warships, had a narrow escape. A report has reached Foochow that an j epidemic had caused frightful destruction of life in the Hingua and Cheolghen districts in September, and mortality was so widespread>that the supply of coffius was exhausted, ..•■.■