Liv Do-Sai_ has been. appointed "the Minister for Foreign Affairs in place of Cho Pyeng-sik, who was dismissed.
Tokio, 4th February, The Minister for Finance has announced that on the 28th ult. the Consolidated Bonds bearing 6 'per cent. interest; to the ambtint of 707,000 yen, were purchased thie Government at the price of 94'yen face value, and tle bonds were thus' redeemed.
It is reported that the Government has definitely decided to' appoint Mr. Inouye Katsunosuke as Japanese Minister to Gor-many.
[Mr. Inouye Kateunosixke is the adopted gon of Count Inouye, and.was.for many years, pcretary in the Japanese Legation at-Berlin.—Ed. K.C.]
Sixteen lighters belonging to the Tnouye and Ota Express agents, -nt Yokohama, while on their way to Tokio the day before yesterday, encountered heavy-gale.. Three of the boats sank, and the men on board were drowned, It is reported that. other
gale.
met with a similar fate in the same All the Ministers of State with the-exception of Marquis Saigo (who is ill) assombled in the Premier's residence to-day,.and held a lengthy-conference. The principal business, itis said, was to receive a report from Count-Inouye on-his financial policy. Baroness d'Anethan, Sir Satow,(British Baron d'Anethan. (Belgian Minister).and Minister), and Count Wydenbruck (Austro-Hungarian. -Minister), "were..received in audience, by the' Empress yesterday morning. Admiral Dewey, the Commander of the: U.S,- Asiatic. squadron, was presented by Colonel Buck, the U.S, Minister, to the Emperor and Empress this morning.
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