Tuesday for Home, viii Siberia,. by the S.M.R.8. Sakaki Maru.
News is received, somewhat belatedly,. that the late Captain J. C. E. Douglas's majority was gazetted as dating from December 1. He was, therefore, Major Douglas at the time he was killed.
On Tuesday night bandits did some damage to the Canton section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. Some delay in the train service was caused, but the line has been repaired and traffic is no longer delayed.
Mrs. B. Weinstock, of 14-15 Quinsan Gardens, wishes us state that she does not know Mit Weinstock, alias Schwartz, who is charged in the French Mixed Court, nor does she know anything about the case.
Tr has been decided that Baron Funakoshi Mitsunojo, an Councillor, will be appointed Minister to Mexico, instead of to Switzerland as first reported, in succession to Dr. Adachi, now in Japan on furlough.
For the encouragement of the Chinese paper industry, the Minister of the interior has given notice to the various departments of the Ministry that hereafter, in purchasing stationary, Chinese material is to be preferred.
Recent issues of the Gazette announce that Mr. F. R. Maan, formerly of the P. & O., 3nd Lert been awarded the Military snt Hampshire Regiment,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.