CHINA AND JAPAN

Lyttelton Times, Volume L, Issue 5535, 18 November 1878, Page 2

CHINA AND JAPAN

[Br Tklbgbaph.l The Own Correspondents of lie Poos Agency write:— Shanghai, Sept. 2L li is stated, and with some u::oa that a railway is again about to be into China. It is not intende . traffic so much as for use in i 'o.. •' - the recently-opened mines near l:v->-- —• Some excitement has been or-. ,s. ; • - chow by the destruction of son-.e i ■ IJS missionary buildings in t.. > ' ' her of roughs said to han e ' - ’: e purpose by some of th , ’ Npenonal injury was ini’ ‘ ” residents bear testimony i-v . .et-ir., of the Chinese general! v. A xvia-.-rui aa* been presented to Her Majesty's UoveroiMts on the subject. A further disturbance, .vaSaeu. s,'««r, entirely to the Natives, la co ■- Ningpo. It was simply a demots:.-*::::; yy* largo scale against what is know a Jj “ lekin,” or war tax, which has -v -wa temporarily remitted. It was altogether * peaeefol demonstration, though .r ! * J peopleware accidentally killed- A. affair has occurred at the Island ,-t c j The islanders objected so {■*.' Government, and laid an amb -- ’ slaughtered a number of r< enforce the Govaetiaisut’s dea_» k military and naval force «** ike;, 1 " Many of the islanders were fight, and others were cape unn death. C. B. Tksdcher, well-know!'. in and New Zealand, ami »ko 11 '■ ? i , j visits to China as a collector ot l - suddenly here a sew days * cholera. He had arrived frv niK: , ' ■ « week previously. . ; , His JumUsboji Kure, Chinese A to Rngjand, has keen rebeved et and ia succeeded hr U*e;llarqnis e: l es»- ■ His Jfixeellenev. Lui, is alse io A';' 3 Pekin, and wul be succeeded in h‘ r ‘ f ' . Lifaiggrad. The sekvtioti of the v - i:< 7; “ Teseng is coasalsred a very judino;.* *-'• h*is very favourable to foreigners. . An article has appeared :n the MeraU, in which pleasure is eipr> y prospect of a huge increase of tr»oi H ‘ , “, ,• China and New Zealand. The i■ i - ''-f' Australian wool into Japan, foryt-aaoty- *yj is also being commented on, and ike '"i Oolouiea are just now aitt-uv-l attention. _ A private letter to Singapore sinking of the large flouting dock A ~Ar which is a serious catastrophe, impeding docking operations. , jn? i large number of foreign oipd ; y'7 reported to be investing iu Jirterer.'. ' pnses in Bangkok, Ute eapiad »■! Ay.,7 ,- n an American is said to have obtain* 1 - , „1 ’1 his consul, a grant of goM-bearm.: • l " ' merely nominal terms. , Yokohama, The chief item of interest y. ; 4 during the past week or two , irl military imeute at Xokio. P that many of the soldiers discontented, owing, as (hey alb?.’ 1 '! ~ being fairly rewarded for their serure*-jy,,, recent Satsuma rebellion. One or l "y' r A>» were killed and considerable upy’* caused by the discharge of firearms.yIt,a 1 t , a damage or injury was inflicted. P 11: the one hand, that the affair had lU ' A‘ rl , ;i d significance, but on the other it . (,n----that the intentions of the rioters *y n _ :1 -,i maturely discovered and made *‘ i y that what might have been a toy insurrection has been nipped in t ho B n Accounts from the famine distnc to bo more satisfactory. . .c,, wpi The Minister of i'iwmc* estunste

renue u> about £9,950,000, on# eighth ol I'hicb i* ridded by the land tax. It is proto jet apart £5,000,000 yearly towards L' liquidation of the National debt, which is r tntivo liim - * greater than in 18/3. n sii.i new National hanks have been estaMishcd in the last six weeks. This makes ibont 1WAlarm is being fell at the steady depreciation of rai>er money, and a financial crisis is considered not far off. jt i» Mimouwi ttot as the mutineers of Takebashi would not divulge the name of their chief, they have been put to toituro to extract confession. On Sent. 2, after groaning and trembling, c .ne of tlio peaks of Kokonoye mountain broke -ff and -“lit! down the mountain side, killing several people in a house at the bottom. At another mountain, at tho tillage of Shibaki, on Sept- 15, a portion slipped down to it# foot, and destroyed a number of houses. There have been great Hoods, causing much danmee. Houses and bridges were earned awav." The rivers rose 15 and 20 feet in place,, n !i■ i 27 bouses and a Bhuddisc temple were carried away, and numbers of people i i rewind-