THE TORRES STRAITS MAIL.
(Reuteb's Special ) Cooktown, August 4th. The Eastern-Australian Mail Company's steamer Normanby has arrived from Singapore with the Torres Strait mail. She brings the following items of Eastern news :— Chinese preparations for war with Russia continue unabated. Prince Kung and the Viceroy of Kanaau still maintain their ascendancy, and there is reason to believe that warlike feelings are un diminished afc Peking. Six thousand French troops will occupy Tonquin, Cochin Cnina, in September. Piracy is rife at the present time in Chinese water*.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 14
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