Pacific mail brings Yokohama news and Japan’s disasters
The Great Republic arrives in San Francisco with telegraphic summaries of Japan’s latest upheavals. A violent earthquake damages villages while the Asamayama volcano erupts inland. A US squadron plans a memorial for Oneida victims and Japan grants a native languages and tactics school. Market declines persist in textiles and teas. Exchange rates quoted.
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Pacific Mail
Great Republic
Yokohama
San Francisco
Japan
Asamayama
Niphon
United States Squadron
Oneida
London
Paris
Nagasaki News: Proclamation on Ichibus and Nibus
Nagasaki notes a government order effective April 10 1870 banning nonapproved ichibus and nibus coin packages. It names seven money changers whose stamps may be accepted and condemns other packages as subject to examination. Reports on ships Bertha and Yahotha, a new Sagromaty bridge project, and arrivals from Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
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Nagasaki
Marseilles
Ichibus
Nibus
Bertha
Mooney
Shanghai
Adrian and Co
Yahotha
Newchwang
Yokohama
Iogo
Hong Kong
Sagromaty Creek
Oura
Sagromaty
Admiraal de Ruyter
Amsterdam
Russia
Rotterdam
Regatta Picnic and Shipping News From Shanghai
The piece notes a postponed regatta due to P M steamers and mentions a 28 inst sitting at H E M s Consulate for proof of debts against Rainbow Lewis Co bankrupts. It also reports the Dutch schooner Singapore's voyage from Newchwang to Hiogo, its decks swept, cabin lost, and arrival at port after days of knockabout.
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Shanghai
H.e.m.’S
Rainbow, Lewis, and Co
London
Nebus
Singapore
Geldrop
Newchwang
Hiogo
Ulit
Chinese uprisings and naval actions noted in Shanghai report
North China Herald May 5 overview cites news of Imperial defeats near Shense, disturbances around Newchwang Kwantung and Honan, and a failed attempt to use Kiangnan Arsenal steamers for piracy suppression. It details a Dea-day led raid on islands destroying six junks, executions and heads hung as warnings, unchanged tea duties, a frogs proclamation, slave-ship auction, wrecks near Foochow, and consular appointments at Tientsin and Chefoo with local business scant.
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London Mail
North China Herald
Shense
Newchwang
Kwantung
Honan
Woosung
Dea-day
Soochow
Chih-hsien
Messrs
John Thorne
Hertha
Foochow
Nenchang
Hiogo
Taipingchau Island
Antoinette
Amoy
Taiwan
Junk Island
Tientsin
W. H. Lay
H.E.M
Mongan
Mayers
Chefoo
Wade
Lepissier
Peking College
Hart
von Gumpach
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