The Government of Korea has decided to present a sum of 100,00 yen as solatium to the family of the late Prince Ito.
On the 12th inst. H.M.S. Alacrity, with Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, was at Kiu- 454 kiang. The Admiral intended making a trip 454 through the Poyang Lake. ...454
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Mr. Henry Edgar, of the Bath Club, Pic- 455 cadilly, W., lately Commissioner of the Chinese 455 Imperial Maritime Customs, who died on 456 September 22 last, aged 69 years, left estate .456 of the gross value of £6,836 14s. 9d., of which the net personalty has been sworn at £3,070
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A fine of $10,000 was imposed.at Singapore 460 last week on a Cantonese named Ng Ah Pat for being in possession of i licit opium valued .461 at $3,126. The sentence in default of payment 464 of the fine was one year's rigorous imprisonment. 464 In the event of the fine being paid it s stated 465 that $9,500 would go to the informer and $500 .465 to the Farm.
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A Manila contemporary reports, in connec- 467 tion with the election in the Philippines, that 467 the Nationalistas have won the election this year throughout the Archipelago, and have 468 virtually snowed under the Progresista Party. 469 The Nationalistas have gained four governors over the number they had last year, and are sure of sixty-five delegates as compared with about fifteen of the Progresista Party.
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On the 11th inst., at Batavia, the wife of E. M. JANION, of a daughter.
The Chinese Minister to the United States, H. E. Chang Tin-tang, left Shanghai by the P. M. s.s. Mongolia last week. The previous night he was accorded a farewell banquet at the Palace Hotel by Chinese and foreign friends, being members either of the International In stitute or of the American Association of China. On the 18th instant, at Glasgow, Scotland, retiring Minister, is that he arrived at Cuba on The latest news of H. E. Wu Ting Fang, the
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the 8th inst. and presented his credentials to the Cuban President on the 10th.
The marriage of Capt. George B. Rea, a very popular member of the Shanghai Licensed
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The Rev. Timothy Richard, D.D., Litt. D, General Secretary of the Christian Literature Society of China, has just completed forty years. work in China, and the members of the English Baptist Missionary Society made use of this anniversary last week to show Dr. Richard the love and esteem in which he is held by them. Dr. Richard was entertained to dinner by the Rev. and Mrs. Evan Morgan at their residence in Shanghai, and a handsome silver rose bowl, a reading chair and reading couch were presented to Dr. Richard, to whom the gifts came as a great surprise.
Japanese wireless telegraphy, the Japan Gazette says, has hitherto been considered to be. limited to 1,400 or 1,600 miles, but the Ochiishi station, Hokkaido, on November 6th exchanged communications with the N.Y.K. liner Shinano- maru, sailing 1,700 miles to the West. On November 8th the Aki-maru communicated with the Hokkaido station from a point 2,850 miles distant. It is now believed that it will not be difficult to communicate between Japan ment between a Japanese expert and the Kahuku and Hawaii. According to a recent arrange- station in Hawaii, experimental communications between the Choshi station, outside Tokyo Bay, are to be exchanged on December 14th and 15th
and the Kahuku station, about 3,500 miles distant.
That the life of the pearl diver is a hazardous from the Mindanao Herald. Speaking of the. one is clearly shown by the following extract loss of divers in Mindanao waters while in the pursuit of pearls, The Herald says:--
---Three divers of the pearling fleet have lost their lives during the past ten days, all dying of diver's paralysis." Mr. Langford lost a Japanese diver, Mr. Maddy lost his chief diver, who is a Filipino, and a diver of the Ohata fleet was lost. the south coast of Basilan, and the divers, who A new bed of shell was recently discovered on
work on a percentage basis, in an effort to "make hay while the sun shines" have made it a practice of remaining too long under water.
caused the divers to exercise more care, but at best diving is a most hazardous business. During the three years the fleet has been in these waters more than forty lives have been lost.
Hongkong Weekly Press Pilots Association, to Miss Katherine Louisa Three deaths in so short a time, however, have
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Inch, the daughter of Mr. G. T. Inch, of Liver- pool, was solemnized at Holy Trinity Cathedral last week in the presence of a large number of friends and well-wishers. Another Shanghai | Barrett, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, to marriage last week was that of Mr. Curwen Miss Daisy Clough, daughter of Mrs. Clough, of Shanghai, solemnized at the Union Church.
The tea trade of Hankow presents some in- teresting statistics for the year, according to The Siberian Mail of the 3rd instant arriv-reports. Recently we have seen all sorts of ed on the 24th instant.
edicts and orders issued from Peking urging tea merchants to do their best. If the returns furnished really represent their best, well, we cannot say much for it. According to the return 29, 82 chests were exported for native use; 11,670 chests of black tea for foreign use, 127.701 chests of Ping Suey tea for foreign use. Remaining unsold and intock 48,301 chests. The Prince Regent, it is stated, proposes to send a Commissioner to Great Britain specially to confer with the British Government on the curtailment of the importation of opium into China. The Commissioner will be charged also with the task of studying the conditions in the opium-producing countries. It is stated that Prince Kang, the Chief Anti-Opium Commis. sioner, has ordered a report to be submitted on Poppy plantation in the different provinces to enable him to devise means for its entire sup- pression.
The Siberian Mails of the 5th and 6th instant arrived on the 26th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. Ariyoshi has been appointed Japanese Consul-General at Shanghai.
Mr. Amos P. Wilder, U. S. Consul-General at Shanghai, is expected back on the P. M. S. Siberia, which is due early in December.
Rear-Admiral Harber has been designated to succeed to the command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on the retirement of Rear-Admiral Sebree early in the year.
Municipal Council, when there were present At a recent meeting of the Kulangsu (Amoy) Messrs. W. H. Wallace (chairman), J. S. Fenwick, J. Mencarini, W. Wilson, W. Kruse, K. Tsudzarabara, the Health Officer and the Assistant Secretary, the Council's attention was drawn to the fact that several dog owners were complaining of the number of unmuzzled dogs roaming about the island despite the issue of notices prohibiting it, and they consid ered it hardly fair that they should take precautions with their animals, by keeping them tied up, or muzzling them in.conformity with the regulations, when so many dogs were allowed to be at large. In reply to this, the Assistant Secretary stated that the services of Mr. Sullivan, who carried out the work of des- troying these dogs, could not be procured often enough to ensure any good result, and suggested that as the majority of the dogs found wander- ing about ummuzzled belonged to the lower- class Chinese, the contents of the notices might be proclaimed by boat of drum, and after that any dogs found at large unmuzzled should be destroyed by poison, which could be carefully administered by the police. This was approved of by the Council.
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