Berlin, 13th December.
Marquis Ito has been much honoured in Berlin. He visited " great number of ublic institutions. The Chancellor, Count iilow, banqueted him at a dinner last night. H. M.' the Emperor will receive Marquis Ito to-morrow.
The bill of the new tariff has been referred to a committee after the plenum of the Reichstag having debated it for nine days. It is uncertain what will be the outcome. The Agrarians demand higher protection for their products, the Bundesrath insists on its proposals.
A number of Italian Banks are to establish an Italian Bank at Shanghai, which will be entrusted by the Government with the receiving of the Italian quota of the Chinese War Indemnity. The Bank will be opened the Ist of July next year.
Italy is about to establish a new steamer line to Australin and China to which the Gorerament will pay s subsidy of two million lire.
The Argentine Government has called in sixty thousand reserves for the Ist of January. In the Republic of Chile a Cabinet crisis is reported. Both States are Preparing for war. However, in Buenos Ayres hope is still sustained that the ex: ting difficulties will be overcome in a friendly way.
Bertin, 16th December.
On the London exchange rates of South-African Mining Shares are going up, asthe end of the Transvaal war is considered imminent, after General Botha being wounded.
H. M. the Emperor has expressed to the Schantung Eisenbahn G aft (Shantung Railway Company) his congratulations
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