Most of the Consular flags were half-masted on Sunday in consequence of the receipt of the news of the death of his Excellency Shioda Saburo, the Japane: Minister to Peking. He died on Saturday morning from disease of the liver, fro which he had been suffering for some tin of the Guard be volunteers His age is not exactly known, but it is as havi am aware that these said he must have been a little over fifty. for some secret sin, a theory exactly acwords have acquired (in Shanghai, at least) He started his official life under the Im- cordant with that of the ancient Jews. The pert Government, soon after its restora-a8 a Secretary in the Foreign Office was appointed Secretary of Legation at Paris in 1870; returned home after a few ears' stay at that post and again entered the Foreign Office as one of the Chief Secretaries; was appointed a delegate to the Telegraph Conference at St. Petersburg was promoted to Assistant Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1881; was decorated with the 2nd Order of the Rising Sun in 1882, and appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to China in 1886, Mr. Shioda, had not devoted himself to politics, would have attained eminence in literature, and he took a great interest in the work of the Peking Oriental Society. Had he lived he would have become doyen of the diplomatic body on the probable departure of Colonel Denby, a post that will now devolve on Sir John Walsham, He will be greatly regretted in Peking, where he was much and generally liked.
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