Peking. July 17.
JAPAN AND MANCHEREA, According to the latest advices from Mukden, the questions of salt monopoly the Kaiping fishery murder case, th residence of Japanese subjects outside limits of international concessions and the working of mines on both sides of the Anting-Mukden rail by the Japanese, and one or two "ther alfains have been settled between the Fapancse Consul-General and—the authorities at the Manchu 1 Capital. favour of the Japanese. This is contrary to the expectations of the ives, who thought that the new viceroy Hsii Shih-chang and Governor Tang Shao-yi, especially the latter, who considered the best diplomat in China at the present time, could better safeguard their interests than the late Tartar-General Chuo Erh-hsun who left the points in dispute between the two countries unsettled, because he was under the impression that T. Hsu and Fang might settle thew more favourably than himself,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.