London vii Bombay, March 4.
In the vicinity of Fanning Island in the North Pacific the British sloop Algerine has detained the Japanese schooner Taga Maru. The latter admitted having landed thirteen Japanese on Christmas Christmas Island is the largest lagoon island in the Pacific. It situated a little north of the Equator in longitude 154° west. The island is dae south of Honolula, This mast not confused with the Christmas Island under the goverament of the Straits Settlements, where there are large guano deposit, The Obristmas Inland in the North Pacific would seem to bare no particular attraotion—from " commercial point of view.—En.
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