Ir is not often that public bodies are the recipients of Christmas boxes, This pecalisr distinction, however, says the Liverpool Post, hasbeen conferred upon the Liverpool Select Veatry, who received from members of the Chinese community in Liverpool a cheque for £20, presented in recognition of kind treatment accorded to Chinese who have bad recourse to the Vestry's hospital daring the past yea We regret to ba to record the death of Mr. G, Ki member of the stof of the New Engineering and Shipbuilding Worke, which occurred at the General Hospital on Saturday, as the result of an accident, On Thareday afternoon, Mr. Kay, with others, was bidding farewell to a friend who was leaving Shanghai, and several Chinese crackers were let off at the pontoon, As the result of the unanticipated explosion of one of the crackers, Mr. Kay suffered rovere injury '0 the head and had to be conveyed to hospital, where he expired two days hater.
Accorpixa to a telegram from Send-to the " Hochi Shimbun," the Police there are looking for a man named Toke Kotokn, aged twenty-three, nephew of Denjiro Kotoka who is believed to entered Miyagi prefecture. This man Tokue landed at Yokohama on the 14th instant. He had been some time in the United heaps rig he had figored as " Sccial-It appears that he had been watched by the police since his landing at Yokohama, but that he had managed to elude them. The police are diligently searching for the man, Tue case of the French naval lieutenant who was a victim to the opium habit raleed " good deal of interest at the time in the prevalence of this vice.
station has never altogether died and there seems a probability of jo measures being shortly taken stamp it out. It is certain that the practice is at'prevent on the increase not only at the seaports of Toulon, Brest, Cherbourg, and Marseilles, bat' also in Paris. Toulon and Brest are supposed to be the headquarters of the opiam mohrs, a tha figure of a thousand pat down for Paris is probab) below the mark.. pita Acconpixo to the " Hankow Daily News" of January 26, at 9 a.m.
morning the volunteers were dismissed, as it was recognized that the disturbances were at an end. On January 25 business was proceeding normally. Our contemporary says that the Chinese and foreign officials bad worked together amicably throughout. A tribute is paid to the volunteers, and especial reference is made to the excellent showing made by the German corps. The native Press had moderated its tone owing to the activity of the authorities, who bad suspended organs that exceeded fair bounds.
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