Tokio.—A massa meeting of the Buddhist priests in Western Japan to demand the franchise has taken place at Kioto. About 3,000 priests attended the function, and in addition there were present a large number of nuns.
With Abbot Abe, President of the Hongwanji Temple Affairs, in the chair, a resolution was passod unanimously, to strive for the attainment of franchise rights.—Reuter.
THose who remember the late Mr. G. Friesland, who for many years was the manager of the Norddeutscher Lloyd in Hongkong and was very popular among all classes of the community, will be interested in the following paragraph from the "Sydney Bulletin: Died at Sydney Hospital a few days ago a, German who was anything but a Hun. His name was Friesland, and his father was Finance Minister in Hanover before that little State was forcibly abducted into the German Empire. One of the sons was German Consul in China at the outbreak of the war, and another was general manager of one of the biggest German steamship lines. but their just-dead brother was a rebel all his life. Refusing to serve in the German Army, he left the country for ever. But his extreme radicalism got kim into trouble in Sydney at the time of the Boer War, and he left for Africa with the intention of fighting with the Boers. However, some incidental adventures changed this views, and he fought, three years with the British.
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