Te is said that Admiral Enomoto has resigned, and makes frequent calls on General Kuroda, After all arrangements connected with the abolition of the Colonization Department are completed, a garrison will take the place of the military settlers in the Hokkaido.—Japan Herald.
The Japanese papers contain little news. The Mai Nichi states that the Hiyei-kan, iron sheathed corvette, one of the three constructed by Sir E. J. Reed, on her return voyage from Persia, where she had been on a special mission, showed signs of deterioration supposed to be due to defect tive construction, It further adds that SirE. J, Reed denies any responsibility for the deterioration of this vessel; and he has asked for a report on the Kongo-kan which will be shortly furnished by the department.
The Choya Shinbun has discovered a
certain Goyemon, resident at Mita-cho, veritable Old Parr, in the shape.
Arima-gon, Settsu, who, notwithstanding he has attained the mature age of one hundred and thirty-nine years, is still sound in constitution, possesses all his faculties, walks without a stof or other support, and is able to visit Kobe without The same pape mutiny among prisoners broke out in the prison at Hamamatsa, Shidzuoka ken, on the 24th ule, Eighty' prisoners combined to escape, and made a desperate attempt to carry their plans into execution; but guards and police were on hand use of arms, the ringleader being shot dead 4 at the outset, the volt was subdued, but not until many w seriously wounded on both sides.
The Nichi Nichi states that an imperial decree establishing three ken at Sapporo, date, and Neumero, in Hokkaido, will be first act of government business this year. Sapporo and Memuro ken will each have a department where all transactions connected with colonization will be HE, Kuroda is reported to have sent in his resignation at the end of last year.
'A motion, says the Nichi Nichi Shinbun, has been before the Cabinet for some time to vote an annual grant of 800,000 yen for eight years, to assist indigent shikoku in their efforts to earn their own living. The cabinet was so divided that, finding it impossible to agree, submission was made to the Mikado, who sanctioned the measure and ordered it to be carried into execution.
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