The Laod Parchaso Bureau of the orang-Mokden Railway will complete incas at the end of the 4th moon and will have expended altogether about, Y. 1,000,000.
The Law Revision Commissiontrs have requested the Throne that students graduated in aw shoul? be appointed Jodicial officials for life Great chaoges it ix expected will be made in the posts of Mancha Geners in the provinces, President Liang of the Waiwopa intends to open negotiations shortly with the Rassian Minister iv Peking for the revision of the Manchurisn swag estates for the month of February ary e 4,279 Ib. she will be recommixeioned at Colombo for farther service on the static Tax directors of the Kalampong Rabber Oompsny have sold up to 48,000 pounds of first quality sheet rabber delivered in London doring the year 1911 at 8/10} per pound.
Mx. EH. H. Hixos, of Hongkong, drew a the first round of the London division of the qualifying oom-petition in connexion with this season's Amateur Billiard Championship. po Sotrao, Conéd! for Spain at Shanghai, has beed orbatod bry King Alphonso of Spain a Chovaliet of the Royal Order of Isabel La Catolica, as a mark of special appreciation of services rendered.
Sanction has been given for Captain A.J. M. Gordon, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fasiliers, Tientsin, being detailed for a tour of duty with the Depét and 3rd Reserve Battalion, Omagh, on avgwentation, and orders have been issued for him to return, We are authorized to state that the Directors of the Shanghai Gas Ca. Ld. will recommend, at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, to be beld on the 23rd instant, the payment of final dividend of Tia. 3.50 per share, making 13 per cent, for the year 1909, We understand that Mr, George Movwer, of the China Matas! Life In-war ance Ca, has been appointed. Direofor of the Bareau of Amusements and Concessions at the Nanking Exhibition, Mr, Mooser will be glad to provide any information to those who intend to take part in the Exhibition, HE. Taso Smao-vi, who has been staying for fow days in Shanghai on his way to the south, left on Wednesday for his home near Canton. Excellency's health the duties of high official pos Sin Wilfrid Lauter, moving" the second reading of the Bill retpsoting: Naval Service io Canada, announced that the eleven vessels which are to be constructed will be built in the Dominion and that tenders will be-invited for the provision of shipbuilding: plant, The vessels will be ready in-five years' time, Tux arsenals in Szechuan being unable to nieetall the demands made upon ther in connexion with the expedition to Tibet, orders have had to be sent down to the Kiangosn Arsenal to make and dispatch at once several batteries of 75-millimetre quick-firing guns, with view to the possibility of farther operations in Tibet.
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