Banham returned to Shanghai on Monday by the 8. M. R. Sakaki Maru.
M. E. Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Minister to Peking, arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday morning by the Russian Volunteer Fleet str. Simbirsk.
Mu. 0. Susy Moone, of Messrs, Brand Bros., partner of the late Capt. G. U. Robins, arrived in Shanghai by the P. & O. 8. Nanki last Friday. Mrs. Selby Moore remaining in England at present, A letter from Captain E, I. M. Barrett announces that the recent final of the Shanghai Amateur Billiards Championship resulted in a sum of £100 being sent Home towards he Motor Ambulance Fund.
Tue Chief Magistrate of the City, I am glad to say (writes our Hangchow correspondent), has issued a proclamation forbidding inoculation of smallpox according to the old Chinese custom, and commanding all children to be now vaccinated according to the western method by calf lymph.
About half-past ten o'clock last last night the Central Fire station was notified of an outbreak of fire on the premises of a Chinese furniture dealer situated in Canton Roed, near the corner of Kiangse Road. With the assistance of the Brigade, the blaze was quickly extinguished and little damage was done.
Acconpina to the "Kobe Shim-dun," the Hyogo police authorities have been taking careful note of the Germans engaged in overseas trade under Japanese names. This practice constituting an offence at law, the police are said to be making examinations with the object of rounding up the offenders.
News has been received in Hongkong of the death at the front of Lieut. E. N. Mitchell, son of the late Mr. E. W. Mitchell and brother of Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell, of Hongkong. Lieut, Mitchell was originally gazetted to the Bedford-there Regiment, but was sub-
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