NEWS FROM CHINA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9201, 2 November 1888, Page 5

NEWS FROM CHINA.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Thursday Island, November 1. An important budget of Eastern news has been received by steamer from China. It is reported that serious trouble is impending with a native ruler in one portion of the British Borneo Company's territory. There is great distress in Honan and North Ahrivi. Owing to the autumn freshets the country has been converted into a huge sea. A fire in Yokohama dockyard has destroyed a large factory and modelling house, with machinery of great value. Two warships narrowly escaped being destroyed by the conflagration. A report has reached Fooehow that an epidemic disease is causing frightful destruction of human life in the districts of Hingua and Cheolghen. In the month of September the mortality was so enormous that it was impossible to obtain a supply of coffins to inter the dead. A Chinese official at Pekin, writing to :i Tientsin paper, says if the Chinese Exclusion Bill is passed by the United States Government, the Chinese authorities will have no option but to prohibit the residence of Americans in China. If this should produce no effect, the Chinese Government would probably next proceed to cancel existing treaties, recall their subjects from America, expel all Americans from the Chinese Empire, and put a stop to all intercourse between the two countries.