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GENERAL NEWS.

Disabled Officers' Employment Agency.

The Council of the Swancen Chamber of Commerce has decid- ed to open a régister of employ ment for disabled officers of both the Army and Navy. The regi-ter will opened at the end of this month.

For Savlag Life at fes. Captain D. G. Whitbread, of the steamer Cyrano, of Hall, han been presented by the Danish Government with a silver cap in recognition of his servicce in rescuing the crew of the Daniab schooner Dans, wrecked in the North Sea in December last.

London's Street Accidents. Daring the last quarter 227 accidents to individuals caused by vehicles in the streets cecurred in the City of London, of which five were fatal. Of these 84 were occasince by hores-drawn vehi- cles, five by tram care, 89 by motor cars, 35 by motor-emni-] buser, two by motor-cycles, and two by ordinary cycles.

The Cost of Revolution. Peking, Jan. 16.-Demanda from the provinces for fanda in order to pay of revolutionary troops continue. Lang Chi. kwong is again pressing for large soms and asks to be allowed to draw on the Kwangtucg salt fande. The request, however, is not likely to be granted. Tang Chi-geo, the Tuchun if Yunnan, is also persistently demanding fuade. The Government receat- ly remitted to him $1,000,000, bat Tang Chi-yao has gain wired atating that be requires $7,000,000 before the New Year.

The Taurus Tunnel.

The new Tsaras tunnel is a little to the east of the Cilician Gates, the pass which has been the march of so many armies from the remolest antiquity. There will not be the same charm for travellers in barrowing beneath the range that there was in the old days, wher, reclining in the araba, most primitive yet easiest of Tabicles, they left Taran and the fat Cilician plain and zig-zagged up the steep southern face between ranks of pince, solemn and mees bearded, through delle of rampant creepers and that strange variety of asphodel with apikes of bloom resembling orchids. Bachange.

Liang Chi-chao in Peking. Peking, Jan. 13.- Various political parties are to day bold- ing a reception at the Hakuang Geild in honour of Liang Chi-. chao, who was entertained yoS terday by the Peking journaliste, Responding to the speech of wel- come, Liang Chi-chao described | the condition of the Chinese Press asimilar to that of the second year || of the Republic. He deprecated, thoughtless criticism or personali- ties and urged the study of jour nalism as practised in foreign countries. He urged newspapers to devote themselves to B con. stractive policy and fair criticism, with the object of remedying the defects in social conditions which might lead to weakness of the nation.

An Old Queen's College Boy. Many friends will have learnt with regret of the death of Mr. Spencer T. Laitun in his 61st year, which was announced in these columns on Saturday, eays the N, O. Daily News of January 15. Mr. Latsun was a Chinese of British nationality, the son of a fermer interpreter to the late Li Hang-ebang. He was educated at Queen's College, Hongkong, sa attained an extraordinary command of English, writing it with a style that many English men might eavy. He was re markably well informed on Chin. ese affairs, and during the years

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