of twenty-five marines is located in the Temperance Hall; the canteen difficulty
Society renting the hall to the B. MI C. having been got over by the Temperance for the winter. The canteen will be run on strict service conditions, ic.on temperance but not abstinence principles. If the political outlook darkens, we are going to apply formoremen. Our German neighbours are to have fifty or sixty.
THR NEW VICEROY, Yi Lu, expected next week. Ho ix credited with very strong Russophilism and with little experience in foreign affairs, Jung Li's short administration certainly heightened his reputation. He was just beginning to sweep clean with a strong economic broom. I know of one Government establishment in which out of sixty taciyuans, thirty-three were got rid of as superfluous; but, of course, it may have been that thirty-three acts of nepotism were to follow in due course.
'THE TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER Ca., have initiated a new phase of business in docking and cleaning H.M. ships. They have not yet got the length of a battleship, Taku Bar forbids, but they are prepared to attend to anything that come across the Bar. The torpedo destroyers Whiting and Fane have been cleaned well and expeditiously during the last twelve days,
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