neluding I wish to speak a kind With Basykok only 1,250 nid connected with Hongkong ular line of steamers there is a unt of loed interest in this South-eastern Asin wed to flag. Having 8,000,000, an extent of are miles, vast areas of and productive Tands, an annual foreign trade of $49,000,000, 0f which Great n controls four-fifths, a King of xcknowledged ability who is earnestly st to Tead his people to a higher plane, a people well disposed to foreigners from cent ties of tropical life, ral city, Bangkok, of 400,000 ation, which is at one of the and yet triest typical cities of Asia, am indeed has a bright future provided she takes advantage of the opportuni-ered her to and Great a her tribulamand her Government have nits and weaknesses, but they are ret Kd often enough. It gives me pleasure to refer to her only in well disposed rds. have_reesived Japan popers with from Yokoham: to the 2nd and Kobe 3nd instant.—The vernacular papers say that Lord Charles Beresford's " Open Door" policy is behind the times, the par-China having been irrevocably in-—The N.Y.K. "had Ivage year to the at Ozinohama, The fire still burping on the 3ist ult. in her but the cargo had been got out of her er No. 1 hold, damaged by water. The fire is believed to hare broken out.in the cotton stowed in No. 2 hold.—At the inquest on Mr. Kell the jury found that he committed suicide while ina state of temporary mental unsoundness.—The 0.S.K. Hankow line steamer Taigen Maru, of 4,500 tons and 1,000 horse-power, was to be launched last Saturday.—The Yama-auch Maru was grounded on a-shoal at Oginohama and there was no hope of putting out the fire.—The evidence of Dr. Eliridge at the inquest on Mr. Kell showed that the deceased's brain had been affected more than once, and that he could {nat he persuaded not to overwork himself, and thus brought himself into condition of melancholia,—The manceuvres of the Japanese standing squadron, under the command of Admiral Sameshima, commenced on the 3st ult.
The following telegrams are from the Kobe Chronicle Okayaina, 28th January.
Messrs. Hirota Joel and Kishimoto Chitaro, on behalf of the Omi Bank and other creditors, have attached the machinery and plant of the Tamashima Cotton Spinning Company on account of claims amounting to 200,000 yen.
Tokio, 28th January.
'A Peking telegram of the 27th inst. states that the Chinese Court proposes to put on the throne a descendant of the Emperor Tung Chi. Yesterday the Princes of the Imperial blood were summoned to the Palace and the question considered as to the most suitable candidate, It is feared that something has happened to the Emperor Kuang Hsii, Peking, 28th January.
stated that Yi Man-tze has been pardoned and will not be punished for his recent rebellion.
Che negotiations on the extension of the French Settlement at Shanghai have keen transferred to Paris.
Seoul, 29th January.
It is stated that the credentials presented to the Emperor of Corea by Hsii Sing-chai, the new Chinese Minister, included a stutement that the Eniperor of China recog nised the independence of Corea in accordance with Article Tof the Treaty (between Japan and China).
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