London, March 9.
-Officials of the Foreign Office and the Lord Chamberlain's department are elaborating a programme itor the forthcoming visit of the Japanese Crown Prince. His Royal Highness will be the guest of che King at Buckingham Palace ior three days, and will afterwards be housed in a mansion in London.—Reuter.
Tue death is reported of Captain Sidford, formerly of the China Navigation Company and latterly of Messrs. Bailey & Sidford, stevedores, Manila. Captain Sid-ford was very well-known on the China coast.
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