'Vhe Health Oficor reports that the accommodation for nurses, even after purchase of the howse pon Cadastra! lot 980 is concluded, will be adequate, and some discussion ensues to the' policy which the Council ould adopt with regard to. th developruont of the work of the Homo generally. The members are of opinion that the number of norses attached to the Home should increase with the Sottlrment's requirements, and, in conformity with this view, it is considered desirable to 0 the whole of present building into wards, ngo for the hansi be compiled without tion concerning the conces lits to Japanese sublong the Kast Siberian coast has ttled by the inclusion in the Convention of series of conditions touching on this point. The text of the Treaty, until it has boon signed, being kept strictly secret. It it will come into Japanese be allowed ring the conditions laid down in the Treaty. This concession is wade in order to avoid illegal fishing, The Treaty of Commerce with Japan is now settled so far as its main lines concerned, and it is huped that an agra rompinivg points of second-rate importance in the course of a fow days.
Meanwhile, the Russian Far Eastera Prose is raising a heart-rending wail about the bu jon with 1 (Dartrr
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