remaining. In view of this " Committee has been appointed in Tokio to enquire into the question, but the cause and effect in the matter are well-known, and it, is pretty well understood in influential circles that there is only one course to follow. These, then, are the views of Japan's leading financial authority, and coming at the present crisis, it is well within the bounds of possibility they will not be without an effect upon the general situation. The Choya Shimbun reports that the' speech has been warmly endorsed by the ex-President of the Bank of Japan, and others.
A STABBING CASE ON BOARD A DRITISH SIP, late on Friday night Inst from Phibudelphia The full-rigged ship Orpheus arrived here
and within fifteen hours of her arrival her decks were the scene of an affray of a nature happily rare on vessels manned by ish sailors. Some Japanese managed to to yet some whisky on hoard early on Saturday morning, in payment for galley refuse, and with this some of the men were not long in getting intoxicated. A quarrel state and in their more or less infuriated ce dition, knives were drawn, with the result that a seaman named H. Regan, 25, belonging to Cork, was most dangerously wounded in three or four place, one plunge of the knife puncturing the lung, and another named Neil Smith, 27, a native of Glasgow, was stabbed less seriously in the neck' and shoulder in three places. The would-be killer of the latter was Geo. Burk, 28 years of age, hailing, as stated on the Articles, from Cowes, but as he is said to have been here two years ago and to have then passed under the name of Lister, perhaps this statement is not quite trustworthy. The ship was being towed in, or rather was just about to start, when the crimes were committed and the Captain was not inboard. The Chief Oficer is consequently prosecuting and the preliminary examination comes on in
this morning. The gravest fears were entertained for Regan's recovery for some time, but under the continuous care of Dr. Moore Graham, the man (who appears to have been mixed up in the row merely as peace-maker) is expected to be in a state to be removed to the shore in a week's time. Burk was of course locked up in the Municipal Gaol on Saturday, and as Smith's wounds proved less serious than was supposed and promised to heal rapidly, was brought on shore under charge of the Sergeant of the Municipal Police and the Constable of the British Court on Sunday afternoon and imprisoned.
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