Company is being turned into an English Limited. Liability Company. It will be known by its old name with the addition of "Limited." The capital, English and Continental, million' sterling. The company acquires the Kaiping coal fields including the valuable mines and plant at Tangshan, the steamer fleet, coal depots and wharves at Tientsin, Tangku, Chinwangtao, Sinho, Shanghai, Hankow, Hongkong, Canton, &e., interest in rail:
The company is to be governed by two ways also Chasg-yi's property in Tientsio. Boards, Foreign and Chinese. The capital is fully subscribed. The transfer occurs on 28th February. This is the most gigantic snd important transfer of property that ever took place in China."
We have received Japan papers with dates from Tokio and Yokohama to the Bist ult., Kobe the 2nd, and Nagasaki Ist' inst.—While strongly deprecating Russia's procrastinating procedure in_her negotiations with. Japan, which in such contrast with the diligence with which she is adding to her naval and military strength in the Far East, the "Japan Mail does not yet consider the] situation hopeless.—It is now stated that Viceroy Alexeieff is not going to move his headquarters to Viadivostock.—It is also stated that the littoral government at Viadivostock isto be removed to Habarovsk.—When the late Prince Konoye's illness took a tura for the worse, he was promoted to the Court rank of the Junior First Grade, and the Second-Class Order of the Sxcred Treasure was conferred on him.-One of the assassins of U Han-zen has been sentenced to death by the Court at Hiroshima and the other to imprisonment for life.—The wrecked steamer Manauense, stranded off Maroran, Hokkaido, was advertised for sale by tender.—The Orientaf Hotel Ca. are about to erect a first-class modern hotel on Lot 6, the Bund, at Kobe—The training-ships Hashidate, Matsushima, and Reokatine we to be commissioned for special duty as during the China-Japan, war.—The N.Y.K.S. Shinagawa Mere, 1,344 tons, stranded off Omayesaki, hi been abandoned.—The Kobe Chronicle says that efforts are being made to trace ey Reilly, a British subject, of the Copenhagen East Asiatic at Kobe from Port Arthur on the 18th of November, left the Great Eastern Hate! there on the 19th, and has not been heard of since.—Vice-Admiral Togo, who com-cage ig fag to the: Mikasa.—The 'N.Y-KS, mands the Standing has removed
Kasuga Maru, formerly on the Australian line, is coming on the Shanghailine in place of the Yamaguchi Maru, to be chartered by the Government.—The Japanese Government has recognised the independence of the now Republic of Panama.—The Japanese Minister to Corea contradicts the story that the rioters in Chollado and the neighbouring provinces have any connection with the Tonghaks.—An Imperial Ondinance decrees that in case of necessity a Lieut.-General or Vice-Admiral shall be nominated by the Emperor to command the military and naval forces in Formosa, under the orders of the Governor-General, but he may act independently in' any pressing emergency.—It is reported that a Joan of £1,000,000, is to be raised in England for the Seoul-Fusan railway.—The "Asahi" has report that the three T. K. K. trans-Pacific liners, Nippon, Hongkong, and American Maru, have been chartered as transport cruisers.—All the temples in Hiroshima have been leased as barracks for. troops.—The ' Nagasaki Press" has become an exceedingly presentable six-page paper.
A Jara paper reports that some of the China Navigation Co.'s steamers have been bought by Japan for use as transports. This, we understand, is incorrect, mut, negotiations have, we believe, been undertaken for the purchase of some of the large blue-funnel liners. the 31st ult—The Singapore Volunteer We have reesived Hongkong papers to Rifles are to be disbanded at an carly date.—A "Hongkong Daily Press" telegram of the 24th ult. says that a Domin ican warship was bombarding Porto Plata—The Straits Times" believes that Sir Frank Swettenham's retirement is intended to facilitate his immediate appointment to a higher office at home.—The greater part of the cargo of the U. 8. chartered transport Kingsley, stranded in the Philippines, is damaged by water.—The date of closing the entries for the Hongkong races is postponed to the 16th ult.—The burnt kerosene oil steamer Arnhold-Luyken is no longer danger to navigation—The Aborigines Protection Society in London has protested against the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal.—lIt is reported that. Messrs. Meyer & Ca. have sold one of thole "Tai" steamers to the Japan-exe for between £9,500 and £10,0(Lord Abinger is reported to have been
is.—Sr. Costello Branco, the Portuyufalling, downstairs at a restaurant ese Minister to China, arrived in Hongkong the last French mail, and went on to macao, where he will stay for a fortnight before' proceeding to his post at Pekiny.—The N.-D. L. S. Ellen Rickmers, 5,350 tons, was reported ashore on the Paracels. Assistance has been sent to her.—The province of Bengal has just lost nearly eleven million people, by a re-arrangement of the province.—The new to begin this month.
We have received the "London and China Express" of the 27th Novembor.—Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P., was received with hostility in his own constituency, Oldham, and denied the use of one of the Conservative Dubs. He spoke from his carriage and afterwards addressed an enthuaiastie meeting st the High Crompton Conservative Club.—The damages awarded him in the anti-vivisection libel action are to be given by Dr. Bayliss to the furtherance of physiological research University College.—A proposalls on foot to erect a statue to John Milton at Cripple-mary reports are current cess Elizabeth of found in the Royal larders at, Skiernevice, and that several persons, including the Czar's cook, have been arrested.
Ir is announced that the shipbuilding business of Messrs. Ansaldo and Ca. has been amalgamated with that of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Ca, and that a new joint stock company has been formed with a capital of £1,200,000. The agreement was signed in Genoa on the 4th December. The amalgamation has for its object tire development of the well-known shipyard of Ansaldo and Ca. xt Sestri Ponente, where men-of-war have already been built for the governments of Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Rovmania. It was in this yard that the Rivadavia and the Moreno, recently public, were built. The combination of En-bought by Japa from the ArgentineRegush capital, and the world-wide experience and reputation of the Elswick firm, with the cheapness of Italian labour will render this the most important shipbuilding yard in the Mediterranean. The Armstrong gun factory at Pozzuoli remains outside the... combination.
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