GENERAL NEWS.
Brig.-General Gasson.
Colonel (Tempy. Brig. Gan.)
C. Casson, U. M. G.," who commanded the South Wales" Borderers at Teingian during the Opersons there at the outbreak of war, has been made a Com- panion of the Bith.
Japanese Toy Making ladustry,
According to the Hochi, Japan, in the matter of toy-making, has bgnmbed to the fatal inclination to imitats, and has gone in for
ientific" toys, in which she can hardly hope to compete with foreign makers after the war, Japanese toy-makers in the past have shown how to exercise artistic taale even in the design of the cheapest toys, and it is.a pily that they should neglect their one strong point.
́Japanese Aviator's Successful. Flights.
Mr. Goto, an aviator, who accomplished s anosessful flight between Tokorczswi and Osaks without alighting en route, left Osaka for Shikoku in his Morris- Farman machine. He passed over i Kobe. Ia Shikoku he proposes to make soircalar flight along the post. Mr. Bato, another aviator, will fly in torn from Uwaijims to Okayama uning the
SAMS
aeroplane. The distance to ba sovered is about 700 miles..
British Consul are Changes fa Japan.
Me. J. T. Wawn is retiring from the Japanese Consular ser- vice and his place en acting| British Consul at Nagasaki has *been taken by Mr. B. Boulter. Mr. Bouller's place in the British Embassy in Tokio sa Assistant Japanese Boretary is taken by MW.J. Davies, hitherto Stud- ant Interpreter, Mr. E. O. Great- rex, retaining the acting Vice- Consularehip at Hakodate, has been temporarily sitsobed to the Tokio Embassy.
Obituary.
The Nagasaki Prera reports the death of Mr. Caris Floravante Urso, an old resident of the port, who passed away at his residence after a long illness. Mr. Urso WES
a native of Italy and as a young
man followed the sea, He came to
Nagasaki thirty or more years ago and eventually entered the com
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