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GENERAL NEWS.

Chinklang British Municipal Council.

The following have been elected to form the Chiakiang British Maaicipal Coanoil för 1915: Mesars, G. E, J. Rose, E. Balean, Q. Lee and A. H. Ramassen.

The Dalren Lottery, The Ohio. Government has been continually protesting against the lottery held at Dairan by the Japanese anthorities; says

Port Arthur despatch to the Asahi, and its discontinuance hus long been awaited. The Kwang- tang Government has at last decided to dizo satinus the lottery after Maroh next.

Japan and China-An Important Conversation.

Oa January 18 Mr. Heki, Japanese Ministor in Peking, says landschi dopatob, officially called on President Yuan Shib-koi, and held a private conference on cs:tain important questions pend- ing between Japan and China. The result of this meeting is look ed forward to with great interest,

Anti-Allen, Land Bills In Americo.

The Lower House of the Tabó State Assembly, on the 20th alt. passed a Bill prohibiting foreigners from "owning, landed property in the State, and sent it to the Upper House. The Bill, eays a telegram to the Aaahi from San Francisco, was proposed by Mr. Anderson, and only two members of the Lower House voted against it.'

Travelling Exhibition of Japanese Goods,

The Department of Agriculture and Commerce having collected samples of hundreds of Japanese manufactures which can be sub- stituted for European goods now imported, it is proposed to hold travelling exhibition of the collection in the variona pre- feclures, with

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Sharp Winter in Mukden.

Toe report concludes:-"The The N.G. Daily News' Mukden In reply to a letter which the correspondent writes: We are Lord Mayor wrote to Sir John Emperor has consented to the beving bitterly cold winter, French, conveying the good removal of the former Command- which is very hard on the very wishes of the citizens of London, er-in-Chief, a poor. The Civil Governor has the Lord Mayor bas received the

of health, and has appointed to organised "soup kitchene" and following telegram:- other rellef for those in die-

I am pablishing your lordship's this post General the Arohdake tress in this city. Fael is very message in Army Ordera, The expensive, as owing to the land congratulations, good wisher, and being covered with ice and snow appreciation of the Army's work The Battle Cruiser " Kirishima." The battlecruiser Kirishima, almost continuously since Novem- conveyed in this kindly message, ber 1, no grass or rabbish-the and coming through you from the just built at the Mitsu Biabi asual fuel of the very poor-can citizena of London, will be of the Yard, Nagasaki, was put through "be raked up and brought to greatest possible encouragement her speed trials on January 19 market. Borgham or large millet, to the troops under my command, outside Nagasaki Bay. The result the staple food of the poor, owing and on their behalf, as well as on shored that she is capable of ex- to the wit autumn, was not pro my own, I wish to express my ceeding her designed speed of 27 knota, siye the Japan Chronicle, perly harvested and is not nearly deep and heartfelt thanks.

FRENCH, F.-M. She will undergo a torpedo firing to beating and nourishing as it usually is.

The King and Queeu and their test noxt month in Chinkai Biy, family spent Christmas quietly Korea, and gun tests in Hiroshima as Sandringham. Large quant- Bay. She is to be delivered to the ities of beef were ag.nsual distrib- Navy on March 19 next, after UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS, On Janaury. 18 Miss Doriautod on Christmas Eve to the testing the boilers and engines, Francis, the young daughter, of tenants and workpeople, two The bucker os pacity of the ship! Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Francia, of pounds being allowed for each is 3,000 tons, sufficient for a Yokohama, was robbed and adult and one pound for each month's navigationst an economi threatened by a dorobo, armed child. Single men not eligible cal speed.

Foreign Lady Robbed in Yokohama.

with a knife. The Japan Gazette for the Army were the recipienta

says the man approached Miss of half-a-crown instead of a joint Court and Alexandra Palace the Franois, after she had passed him, of beef. There were not many

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yments were arranged. Yokohama and Kawasaki, and pies, and plom padding.

The officers and men on the less than YI 50. The something I

In all the London Hospitals.

ahipa in the Nore Command were who included many allowed as mnob relaxation as was robber is described as being short, patients-ho thin, and middle-aged and wearing wounded soldiers were entor no hed-covering The young tained, and everything possible permissible in a state of war, and done by the staff to infuse every possible provision was made lady suffered greatly from toe was done by the Iright and nervons shock. The the Christmas spirit and give en by the authorities and their hour Wat

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