Opium Trade Sparks Widespread Cultivation in China
The article argues legalization failed to boost foreign opium, while native poppy farming expands across Yun Nan Si Chwan Kan Suh and other provinces. It notes high local consumption, cheap native opium, widespread smoking including women, and a predicted rise to about five million smokers. It cautions laws will not curb the habit and condemns revenue from misery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hien- Fung
China
India
Che- Kiang
Yunnan
Yun-Nan
lMwei-Chow
Si-Chwan
Kan- Suh
Shen-Si
Shan-Si
Elu-Poh
Hu-Nan
Kiang-Si
Manchuria
Kan-Suh
Kwei-Chow
Si- Chwan
Hell
i-Chwan
Shanghai
Malwa
Medhurst
Metropolitan Railway Extension Progress at Cannon Street Junction
The Metropolitan District Railway gains possession to complete extension and junction at Cannon Street Queen Victoria Street, enabling quicker works toward connecting with the lines from Euston and St Pancras to Charing Cross. The first Atlantic Cable suffers a break, leaving the French cable as the main link to America. An authoritative denial counters last week’s report of ongoing negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parliament
London and North-Western Railway
Euston
Midland Railway
St. Pancras
Charing-crosa
Neics
Metropolitan District Railway Company
Cannon-Street
Queen Victoria-street
America
Ben
Rat
Turning of the Suez Canal into English venture under Duke of Sutherland
A letter from the Duke denies any truth to reports that the canal's transfer is being reorganized as an English joint stock with him as chairman. Christmas cards from Marcus Ward & Co. feature religious, festive and comic scenes in a new style. The Harrow collision inquest resumes with the signalman on duty ten and a half hours. the breakdown signals and procedures are examined as the inquiry adjourns again. A suicide near Mile End is blamed on a father's brutal beating, with a coroner's inquest finding the death was caused by temporary insanity and a formal censure of the father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suez Canal
Duke of Sutherland
D. A. Lange
Messrs
Marcus Ward
Rathway
Harrow
Anne Elizabeth Connor
Mile-end
John Connor
Salisbury-street
Burdett-road
Bow
Johnny
Mary Anne Gamble
Immense pilchard swarms seen off St Ives Cornwall
An immense number of pilchards covering miles of sea were sighted off St Ives in Cornwall. The report highlights the vast shoals and their location near the coast, noting the unusual abundance of fish seen in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ives
Cornwall
Glasgow
Gustave Duré
France
London
Messia
William Blackwood
Long
Lord Brougham and
Vaux
Kentucky
Land of the Living
Deaths Births and Marriages Mann and Muscutt
Death notice for Elizabeth Mann wife of Thomas Mann of the General Register Office and Sovereet House with connection to Andover Houte. Note of De Beauvoir Town burial for Lieauor Muscutt wife of Rev Edward Muscutt aged seventy six after long illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mann
Sydenham
Elizabeth
Thomas Mann
General Register Office
Sovereet House
Andover
Houte
Church-road
de Beauvoir Town
Lieauor
Edward Muscutt
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