Japanes 1,421 Norwevian and {Pere Chevalier writes us from the Obs: vatory at Sicawei to the effect that the statements nade by some of the priests, jand quoted by us, as to the extent of the {famine in Kiangst and Aului, appear ex-rated; and that the advice as to not confiding any of the relief funds to Chinese hands not approved at Sicawei, where it it that in many 7 the sufferers reached by native distributors. me that there is real conflict of opinion: what is obted to, is the allowing officials to have any control of the relief funds, while j natives must necessarily be employed in the actual distribution.
Mr, Samuel Brown, M.LC.E., Gov ment Engineer in Cyprus, has been appointed to succeed the H. M. Price as Surveyor kong for hen the 24th ult.
The Masonic Ball the 25th ult. was the k ball ey in the colony, there bei rly a thousand sons present It en under the es of the Hon. C. Chater, D.G.M.
The Canto pondent of the holy Te Merchants' steamer [sinsheny had created a sensation by coming up the front reach and anchoring vit Shamien, showing that nton is still accessible by this route. He adds:—"The fact that of considerable size can the front reach, will no doubt make the Viceroy more dete resolve manton Mining Cor was held in Hongko Mr. W. G, Brodie being in the chair, a large number ut shareholders Becher, engineer to the mines, being pre sent. A most favourable report from the Tatter was read, and it was decided to raise ital by the issue to the pre 000 new shares of $10 each. The Chairman mentioned that the issue would be unnecessary if the London syndicate accepted the offer made them of one-half the Company's property for £100,000, the syndicate having also to tind £50,000 of working capital. "The old shares, $10 paid up, which were considerably below par recently, were quoted at $70 on the Ist instant.
The Duily Press says that the nego ions for the sale of half the Punjom Min-Co's property to London capitalists have fallen through.
We learn from the Jepan Mail that it was recently determined to break open a safe that had stood closed for years in the British Legation at Tokio, the key having been lust. The deed was done, and in the safe were found the accounts of some of the Consulates, and a box of gold and sil medals which had been sent by the Bi Government for distribution" among the Japanese who defended the British Legation in Tokio against the attack made on it—in which the late Mr. Laurence Oliphant was wounded—on the 4th of July, 1861. These medals have been entirely fu for twenty-six years, and the dificult; is to tind the men for whom they" were intended. It appears that in alluding to the tind the other day, Count Ito, the present President of the Privy Council, claimed one, on the ground that he was one of the samurai engaged in the attack; but it appears that the affair in which he took part was the burning of the new British Legation on the night of its completion, in 1863.
It is officially denied that the Emperor of Japan in his speech at the promulgation of the constitution said that the grant was to be regarded "us the transfer of a portion of the sovereign power to the people."
According tu the Japa Mail, public opinion in Japan is generally satisfied with is the association known as the Daido Dan-the new Constitution. The onl exception Ketsu, of which Count Goto is the head, which has not discovered any special outrage in the Constitution, britis just '*standing in the middle of the read, and swearing at large."
The Japan Mail says that telegrams are published by the vernacular press to the fect that on the morning of the 24th ult., one hundred and sixty soldiers in garrison at Toyohashi, in the province of Mikawa, broke out of barracks and partially wrecked several buildings including an oficial residence and the telegraph oflicn, They j also pulled down telegraph tuoved tails on the line. Bir. Kishi Zaburo, posts and re-
a local official, was severely wounded, and the railway service was temporarily inter-Nothing is said as to the origin of it, but we learn that Colonel Saka-more, Chief of Staff at Nagoya, proceeded te the scene of the disturbance the same evening by train, with, it may be presumed, force sufficient to restore order, Nine of the rioters were arrested, since his death, has been rank one grade by the Emperor mud class, second grade, to second, class, first grade, and a sum of yen 5,000 has been contributed by his Majesty to his funeral expenses.
The Jiji Shimpo had the coolness to nounce that a subscription had been raised in Tokio to pay the faneral expenses of Viscount Mon's assassin, and that two of Viscount Mori's colleagues in the Cabinet, Counts Inouye and Yamada, were among the subscribers, Of course, the Jiji had to contradict the statement subsequently, for though people have been heard to' aver that they would willingly pay for an ened my's funeral, they do not generally care to provide the funds openly.
The assassin of Viscount Mori went about. his work ina deliberate manner, According to the Shixonvme Shimbun, it has been ascertained that Nishino Buntaro arose at an unusually carly hour on the morning of the 10th ult. and was observed by his comrades who resided in the same house to be writing some document with unusual care, a circumstance which afterwards was the cause of some trivial remarks amon them. His friends were, however, mud surprised when, on examining his' effects after his death, they found his morning's work to be a detailed description of his plan for the assassination of Viscount Mori. At the end of this statement he had written "On the day previous to the Kigensetsu of the 22nd your of Meiji Nishino Buntaro writes this secretly at his house,"
There was another earthquake in Yokohama on the 21st ult.
The Chinese in Yokohama seem to have been a day tuo suen. They celebrated the Emperor's Wedding Day on the 23th ult., and had a very creditable torchlight procession of grotesque figures and. gaily illuminated carts, We learn from the Choy Shimbun that the Chinese Government allowed its Consul at Yokohama Tls. 2,000 for the celebration in connection with the Imperial Marriage. An honoured guest at the entertainment of the Leprosy Hospital at Komagome, was Mr. Arai, who is at present Principal and who has been engaged to come to China to direct an anti-leprosy campaign in this country.
The Rising Sun hears that the last European connected with the Corean Mint, Mr. Reidt, has been dismissed, as it has been decided to discontinue minting for the present,
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