The sensation of the day is the murder of the late Minister of Communications, of whose career I sent you an account at the time of his appointment to the late Cabinet, Disgusting as the story of the butchery is there can be no doubt that it is also wonderfully striking and dramatic. The facts that the man who committed the murder belonged to a respectable family and was by no means a hired bravo; and that he seems to have nourished his mind altermtely on a Chinese classic which advocates political murder and on the Tokio papers which carried on such " campaign against Mr, Hoshi some months ago and which papers he appears to have implicitly believed, combine to present us with rather unusual assassin. That he was typically up-to-date is shown by his learn-English and various sciences, That the old ideas were never eradicated his crime as logetic ducument whi ical assassins usually and also is letter of divorce to his wife: The latter document runs as follows Being bora in the family of a bushi a moment has currie when it behoves me to consider the welfare of my country. "specially as I occupy the position of feet that L must kill Moshi: pray you to think of one seen ina dream. Desiring riy any trouble upon you, Tues divorce you. Live com-t the charges of your son-in-law.
British hus ite! ship Gwalior frum Shaws hai. The departures were more uumecous, buing—on the 17th inst. the French cruiser Friunt for Yokohama; on the 18th, the German gunboat Geier for Amoy: on the 19th the Austrian cruiser Leopard for Canton, ud the British hospital ship Gwalior for Culeutta; on the 20th, the British storeship Humber for Shanghai.
The receiving ship Tamar went into dock at Kowloon on Wednesday for her
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