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Sir B. Shackleton. Melbourne, December 16.-Sir Ecneat Shackleton's ship, the| Aurors, has nailed for Hobart, en route for the Antarctic,

Shanghal University.

The closing day of the winter term of St. John's University will bo Saturday, February 6. Tho competition drill and dress parade will be held at two o'clock, and the "literary exercises at three o'olcck.

Japanese Goods in Chosen There is a tendency, anys the Asahi, among foreign residenta in Chosen to substitute "Japanese for foreign articles, in consequen ce of the stoppage of the import ation of the letter owing to the European war The Phongyang Oharity Hospital, under British management, tas recently been using Japanese gooda.

No Plague in Manchuria. The London and China Express| observes that it is satisfactory to nelo that although plague has in the past year occurred in South China, India, Hongkong, Russia, Japan, America, and other parts of the world, not one case has been observed in Manchuria. This makes the fourth consecutiv year in which this dread dicenres has not made ita appearance in these provinces since the epidemic of 1910-11.

America's New Submarines. # Washington, December 15. Bids were to-day opened for the building of eight new submarines,

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