Hong Kong Telegraph 1883-07-17

Hong Kong Telegraph 1883-07-17

Year: 1883

NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL. Foster, the new United States Minister to Spain, has arrived. The Chamber of Deputies has passed the bill to reform the Ministry. The Quakers in Ireland have distributed in County Donegal 220 tons of seed potatoes, thus. All foreign newspaper correspondents and prominent members of the Russian press present. THE SUEZ CANAL SCHEME. THE CORRUPT PRACTICES BILL. THE French corvette Kersaint arrived in Shanghai on the 7th instant. SERIOUS troubles are anticipated in Russia in consequence of the Czar's manifesto. H.E. LI HUNG-CHANG arrived at Tientsin in the steamship Hasan, at noon, on the 9th instant. ACCORDING to the New York Herald, Russia covets Armenia as an equivalent for England's occupation of Egypt. A REOULAR Lodge of Victorin,No.1016, will be held on Monday evening, the 23rd instant, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. IT is rumoured that the French intend bombarding the capital of Annam ahortly unless an indemnity for the death of Captain Riviere is paid.