Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-05-26

Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-05-26

Year: 1894

The plague house-to-house visitations smong the powers to deal with the epldemlc among the Chinese community in Hongkong Notes from the north Many of Mason's former friends, both Chinese and foreign, have seen loafing around Shanghai of late, but it is not at all likely that they have either the daring, the energy or the means to engage in any enterprise on the scale of the one planned to ensnare Mason and the other dupes who were drown into the net, but at the same time it can be understood that the Siam notes The cargo-boat strike The plague in canton (from our own correspondent) The "black death" Snake poison and human poison Nanking Shaohsing Most foreigners who have spent a few years in china-especially mission-ries in thland cities, -know, and have known for many years now, that native tea-dealers adulterate in the monst glaring manner those teen which are exported to foreign counties. We do not refre to the "cooking" of teas such as is carried on at the ports right under the ports right under the eyes of the foreign dealers themselves, but to the teas which are doctored in country places before they reach a port. The By the introduction of