Total. Grand total.
Commander Hirose.
From a Peking t, beans a report made by the Novi Kral," Port Arthur, it appears that the late Commander Hirose's corpse was found by the Russians at Port Arthur in the vicinity of the recently sunken Fukui Maru and interred with naval honours on the Ist of April. From the descriptic of the body and the articles found on it, there can be little doubt as to its identity. The Russians-evidently treated the cory as though it had been that of one of their own officers, for which act all praise is due to them.
Travelling Facilities.
It is understood that negotiations between the Japanese railway authorities and Pacific steamship companies have been going ea satisfactorily and the contract {vith some companies has been already concluded.
Miscellaneous.
Mr. K. Nakai, chairman of the Japanese community at Seoul, proposes a coinage alliance, inter alia, between Japan and Corea. There are now in Corea her own nickel coin, Japanese convertible notes, the Daiichi Ginko (First Bank) notes, anc Japanese military notes. The circulation of so many currencies with premium in one country is certainly drawback in agree! commercial transactions.
The Ryogoku-Honjo elevated line (Tokio) 75 chains in length—on the Sabu Railway—was opened. to trottie on the Sth inst. This is the first line of the kind ever opened in Japan.
A foreign steamer laden with contraband of war, under the Norwegian fix, was seized by a Japanese warship in Corean waters ea the 3rd inst. and towed to a certain point, A large quantity of beef, valued at Y150,000, which has been seized as contraband of war, was landed at Shimonoseki on the 6th inst.
Mr. Horace G. Burt, formerly President of the Union Pacific, now in Japan ona pleasure trip, emphatically denies a report that he accepted the offer of chief c msulting engineer of the Trans-Siberian Railway ata salary of $190,000 a year.
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