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GENERAL NEWS.

The B. A. T. at Mukdën. The new fastory of the British American Tobaosó Üɔ, at Makden. Las ita maobinery nador installę ation. The new plant will be ready for operation during next month.

Prince Joachim.

Prince Joachim, one of the younger sons of the Kaiser; who was seriously wounded by Turco troops in France mora, than ̈ o month ago, is stated to hayn-re- turned to the firing line after recovering from his wounds.

Home-brewed Beer. ሁነ The new tax on teer has led to a revival among the cottages in Mid-Essex of the custom of brew- ing their own beor. In the villages of Sbalford and Stiated, near Braintree, home brewing has become quite general, and several brews of auch beer are already maturing for next Christmas consumption.:

Colombo Military Wedding.

The wedding of Capt. Richard Guy Purcell, Royal Garrison Artillery, son of Colonel H. H. 'Purcell, lalo R. E., and Mrs. Pur-| voll, and Miss Dorothy Fyffe Sou- ter, youngest daughter of the late! Mr. Alexander Fyfie Souter, of Westhall, Kotwale, and Mrs. Souter, of Petworth, Nuwera Eliya, and sister of Mrs. F. W. Waldook, and Mrs. E. R. Wal. dock, of Colombo, took place at St. Michael's and All Angels', Polwatte, Ceylon, on January

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Manila Official's Unfortunate Experience.

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Old Singaporean's Death, Another link with the past of The emigrante succeeded in minority, consisting of the dan Singapore has been severed, says obtaining from the Government gerous ringleaders, will be kept the Straits Times, by the death in of India, through the British ander restraint for the present. harness of Mr. R. C. Leicester, Consulate at Kobe, free passages only son of the late E. B. Leices from Japan to. Calcutta, and a ter, Jr., of the age of 74, of large sum of money for provisions, chronic interstitial nephritis, at although their statement na to the residence of his nephew in their destitute condition would Fullarton Road. Deceased was now seem to have been entirely for many years financial clerk in incorrect, the Soretariat, which post he

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