Mr. Allum had long resided in Foochow, and during the last two yeara was the head of the firm of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Ca. Woe understand that Mr. T. Pollard succeeds Mr, Allum in this well-known house, the departure of Mr. A, W, Maitland, who proceeds to Bombay, the Foochow community lose an old appreciated at the port to which he is tra Mr. Maitland will always secure friends, who, however, cannot be more sincere in their wishes for his prosperity than those he leaves in Foochow. Yesterday morning a large number of the community visited ti bund to bid Mr. Maitland bon voyage, and several of them accompanied him as far as Pagoda Auchorage,—Herald. auer.
The period of the vernal equinox is vuce more upon us, and we may congratulate ourselves that an unusually disagree able and unhealthy winter is drawing to a close. With the return of spring several of the foreign residents are leaving Mr. MI F. A. Fraser, Interpreter of the British Consulate, Amoy, left on the lst inst., in the $.8. Namoa for Swatow and Hongkong, en route to Pakhoi, at which place he lias been appointed Acti sul. Mr, W.H. Wil Assistant of the British Consulate, Amoy, proceeded in the same steamer to Swatow en route to Europe, on furlough, Mr. Wilkinso it will be remembered, arrived here in different health, having contracted the seeds of a painful ailment during his residence in the inclement climate of the North. We are happy to say that he hay much benefited by the genial change io our southern sunny clime,.and we trust that the ailment, already checked and retarded in its progress, inlay be entirely extirpated by Mr. Wilkinson's return to the land of his birth.—Gazette, NAGASAKI, According to a telegram received from Tokio during the past week, Mr. Ishida, at present Governor of Akita ken, has been ordered to relieve Mr. Utaumi Tadakateu of his ofice of Governor of Nagasaki ken, So far as the foreign residents of Nagasaki are concerned, we venture to say that Mr, Utsumi's removal from his present sphere will not be viewed with feelings of regret whilst his popularity amonget the native population is equally questionable. Mr, Utsumi may be very agreeable, gentiomanly, and plausible to a few with whom it is his interest to be so, but itisundeniable that the whole term of his tenure of office has been a period of extreme unpleasantness for the foreign community, and entire devoid of satisfactory results as regards the foreign settlement, If the Choya Shimbun has been correctly informed, Governor Utsumi Tadakatsu hag evidently beau attempting to be sarcastic at the expense of the foreign community of Nagasaki, for whom there is, however, one groat consolation:—his day their i inhered. The journal in qu "that the Kenvei of Naga saki has reported to the authorities, it would be as well to extend the limits of the Nagas suki foreign sctilment, ax the foreign resid. gts have greatly increased of ate."—Rising Sun.
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