Japanese Shipping News and Tokyo Army Orders Report
The U S 8 Saco returned to Yokosuka after a leak required pumping. The Courier flags Russia again and will sail to Nagasaki then Russia. Maydamack corvette took Mons Struve to Nagasaki for a few days. Black’s negotiations with the English Legation over Bankoku Shimbun end. Black heads to England. A Osaka fire killed many. fifty-nine bodies recovered. Tax on foreign steamer passengers remains. Japanese army leaders to report to Tokyo by May 15. Three criminals decapitated at Tobe for robbery. Earthquakes noted. Offenbach operas performed locally. Tsukuba’s San Francisco voyage described with drill and crew details. Shipbuilding rising on Yesso coast. warnings on native builders. Wakayama sees mass suicides. 60 in two months. Tanaka Fujimaro to visit America. Miyageken exhibition opens April 15. Bluff property No 208c sold for $340.
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U.S
Saco
Yokosuka
Ss. Courier
Nagasaki
Russia
Maydamack
Mons. Struve
Mr. Black
Legation
Bankoku Shimbun
Black
England
Michi Nichi Shimbun
Osaka
Imperial Japanese Army
Tokio
Tobe
Offenbach
Japan Mail
Tsukuba
San Francisco
Jalacca
Kagoshima
Shinagawa
Sandwich Islands
Honolulu
Kalakaua
Isukuba
Yokohama
Lloyd’s
Wakayama
Kishin
Michi Nichi
Tanaka Fujimaro
America
Merioku Society
Seiyoken
Tskidji
Miyageken
Talbot
Chinese provincial memorial stirs anti-foreign sentiment
A Szechuen correspondent reports that the provincial Literary Chancellor circulated a memorial to the Emperor hostile to foreigners. The document spread widely among literati and spurred disruptive placards and growing hostile feeling, with tracing of its origin presumed possible.
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Peking and
Tientsin
A. Szechuen
North China Daily News
Peking Gazette Reports Trials and Appointments Amid Regional Reforms
The Peking Gazette details the Nan king trial with ex-General Chan K i lun sentenced to death and Ch en Kwolh jui to Amur transportation. It notes King Lien's Grand Council probation and a Kiangsi youth receiving fu-pain. Dredging machines from the United States are praised for river control amid floods in Chili. A native vaccine institution is founded in Peking.
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Peking
Nanking
Ch’én Kwoh-jui
Yangchow
Tientsin
Chan K’i-lun
Ch’én Kwolh-jui
Amur
King Lien
Grand Council of State
Grand Council
Kiangsi
T’u Tsung-ying
Hunan
Kwangsi
Yen Shu-shen
Chili
Yellow River
Canton
Ningpo Christ Church annual meeting notes and telegraph cable warning
The Ningpo Christ Church subscribers held their annual meeting with Bishop Russell presiding. Attendees included Revs Bates Hoare Major Watson and several lay members. Subscriptions declined and a new round of appeals was ordered. Taoutai showed interest in foreign educational efforts. Tsung-li Yamen instructions warned junkmasters fishermen and others to avoid damaging the telegraph cable and to release it if dragged ashore.
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Ningpo
Christ Church
Bishop Russell
Bates
Hoare
Major Watson
Messrs
Warren
Dumaresq
Wadman
Martin
Land
Ottaway
Williams
Golding
W. R. Davidson
Kahler
Messrs. Wadman
Russell
News Summary from Shanghai Port Reports
Advices from Shanghai dated 23 April note the P and O mail from London received 14 April. The North China Herald carries a summary of the North China Insurance Company 1875-77 report for the second ordinary shareholders meeting to be held next week. The Directors present the second half of the report.
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Shanghai
P. and O
London
North China Herald
North China Insurance Company
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