Febraary 15.
The new year was ushered io and passed off qaivtly. There were plenty of gambling tables along no romdyinm as f The weather was Since writing our Inst letter we ha made further inquiries as to any rumours or noessy feelings amongst the people. Apprehension of early trouble in the fatare, or talk of a partition of China by the foreign Powers does not The frisndliost relations continue between the officials and foreigners here.
We hope that this state of affairs may lung continue.
Oving to persistent gambling io ative ions, and in one case the decamping of one man with a considerable sum of money, a proclamation has been issued ordering every innkeeper to keep a register of the name, business and native place of everyone lodging in his report that " brother of at's pasied through the Port 0. Ho was dressed as a From Our Quen Correspondent. ibe completion of necessary arrange. wents, the eastern and western entrances Febraary 12. may be used by merchantmen. When In the year just closed, the Berlin the naval arrangements in Chinhai Mission has lost the services of Mr, Bay, South Korea, are completed, the Wohlgemath, who has been invalided naval station at Port Arthur will be home from a severe attack of what looked converted into naval depot. Up to like plague. Reinforcements have come the time of this conversion, both the the form of two new workers, Mesers. eastern and western harbours will Bilo and Weiss, and also a trained belong to the naval station, though the purse, latter is to be opened Mr. D. Heslop, the Eagli This partial opening of Port Artha "Jin charge of the fifteenth section of the enthusiastically weloumed loosely, and Or a-Hankow Railway, has brought all the houses formerly built by the child to live la Shiachow, Rassians sre now said to have been Mr, Conran, an Americen engineer engaged by foreiga merobante. La formerly employed on the Railway has scoordence with the agreement con-been prospecting with some success for claded some years ago with Korea, the six mouths, He reports new finds of aval arrangements in Chinhai Bay are coal, antimony and iron hitherto uato be begun from the 1910-11 fiscal year, at aa expenditare of abut 1 of St. Stephen's College, 8,000,000 for the first ten conseokong, has been spending ths New ative years. It may be added that Year holidays here. gunnery station in Kopho, Sunth in to be completed within two years from April next, MOTES FROM JAPAN, CRUDE oil,
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