are reported in the Official Guzette and Nichi Nichi Shimbun. Seven Reople were crushed to death by un avalanche in Gifu Ken, at a place called Asaniata, on' the 10th inst. Their bodies were nut recovered until the 13th, when they were dug out of an immense mass of superincumbent snow. The accident is said to have happened at about 9 o'clock at night, On the 14th an explosion of carbonic acid as took several lives at a coal mine in aga prefecture, Three were killed outnight and eight of thirteen more who were badly wounded are not expected to recover. The last case occurred nearer here, ut the Ita mine in Akasaka county, Oka-yama Ken, Seven miners were working in the lowest gallery when that part of the mine suddenly flooded. Three managee to reach the surface in an exhausted cundition, but only one was brought to. The others succumbed. little community by the death yesterday Quite a gloom has been cast over this of Mr. A. M. Nicholas, an Australian of means who came here a few years ago and ly decided to settle here, Kobe in his n being theyachting port ut the world, to its site upon the islet-studded Sea, and yachting was one of his chief, if not his chief, pursuits and pleasures. Tt is'only afew weeks since he returned here from a long cruise in the Inland Sea, and not very long since he came back from Europe and America, Having decided to settle down here, he bought ove of the most charming hillside residences a week or two ago, and I hear it said that he, had planed to move in the very day he was taken ill, As our Chaplain said at the graveside this afternoon, the poor fellow was removed with awful suddenness, and his death from typhoid fever, at the early age of 35, is in truth an event of a peculiarly solemn character." His was one of the tallest and most commanding figures to be seen on our streets, and by all who knew hint here he will be remembered for a long time} to come. There are several others down with typhoid, taken earlier, but all Tam glad to say are believed to be doing well.
Attention is now being directed to the drainage of the Settlement. It seems like-that some action will be taken to determine if po-sible the cause of the epidemic of typhoid for which this winter will now be recollected. Sniall-pox continues amonget the Japanese despite compulsory vaccination, but so far only one case as occurred amonget foreigners,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.