have closed their branches in Mukden, says the "Peking Daily News."
A Hoxcxoxa compradore has been fined $50 or in default of payment sentenced to serve a month's imprisonment, for unduly raising his prices.
Orrictat reports received in Rome about September 10 say that the health of Emperor Francis Joseph is good, considering his advanced age and worry over the war.
Mason Ricuarpsow recently left London for the front with four trained bloodhounds, which will be used for tracing wounded men miss ed by the Red Crosse workers.
Mr, J. K. I. Ross, the well-known Montreal financier, has made a contribution of £100,000 to the Government to be used for military and naval purposes or for pensions.
SxventeeN of the pirates concerned in the Tai On piracy in April Inst were recently tried at Canton and sentenced to be shot. The sentence was carried out at the East Gate, Canton.
War. news is absolutely unobtainable in Berlin, where the import of foreign newspapers has been prohibited and the publication of the Socialist organ, the Vorwaerts,"" has been suppressed.
Ar a recent meeting of the Direotors of the North China Insurance Ca., Ld., a final dividend of 12} per cent, on the paid-up capital at ex-2/38, and a bonus of 15 per cent. to contributors was recommended, Ovr Tsinanfu correspondent writes on October 6:—The autumn crepe have been safely reaped and have been unusually good and the bean crop, which will soon be ready for cutting, is also " good average.
A sit is being passed exempting from death duty the first £5,000 of the estates of those killed in war, whose property goes to the widow or lineal descendants, and making further concessions where the estate exceeds £5,000.
Tue special officer of the Salvage Association at Quebec states that far 296 bars of silver, value about £7,000 have been saved from the sunken Empress of Ireland. Weather permitting, the remainder will be recoverable.
Ture is reason to believe that the old Chinese Regiment of Infantry which was so foolishly disbanded some years ago, will be revived in due process of time, says the military correspondent of the "L. & ©. Express."
Mr. Justice Bourne will shortly have two sons at the front, for his eldest son who lately finished his four years' course at Oxford, is lieutenant in the West Kent Ter 209 ritorial, the whole of which battalion volunteered for active ser-
Tax Germans, without warning, bombarded Pont A Mousson, which was undefended. Their fire fell with great weight on a hospital flying the Red Cross flag. Shells fell in the town, killing seven and wounding eight women and children.
LirvrexannGenerat Sin Dovatas Hare is in command of the first corps of the British Expeditionary Force in France, and Major-General William Pulteney the third corps. Major-General ° Sir Archibald Murray is Sir John French's Chief of Staff.
Tre handsome new Centra! Sta tion in Tokio of the Imperial Government Railways will be opened to traffic on December 15, When station is opened the line to Yokohama will be electrified, ¢ double track having been laid for this service between the two cities.
Suonrtty before 3 p.m. on Tues day it was reported that 9 fire had broken out in the compound of she Laou-kung-mow Cotton Mill, Yangtszeo00 Road. The Brigade turned out, but on arrival at the mill, found that the blaze, which was confined to some debris in the compound, had already been extinguished, Viena was to have been the venue of the meeting of the Universal Peace Congress last month, and the occasion was to have provided, said the pacifists, a striking proof of the unity of the Slavs in their desire for peace! ''Franco-German relations" was one of the subjects down for discussion.
"Stow To start," says the Figaro," "England is a bulldog which will not relinquish its prey nor cease the fight until the enemy cries for mercy, when it will no longer be in a position to dispute the terms which will be imposed upon it in order to assure the peace of Europe."
Revrer's Chengtu correspondent telegraphs that the vernacular papers state that the Government has sanctioned the construction and management of the Chungking-Chengtu Railway by the old President Yuan maney formerly lent to the State, Ir is reported that a gold mine with a number of rich veins has been discovered by Mr. Suruki toshi of Hakodate in-the basin than Y.150,000,000, the ore found containing gold at the rate of Reverrixa to a cable to Ceylon, dealing with the action taken by the Rubber Growers' Association,
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