London, Dec, 19.
Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, Chairman of the British North Borneo Company, will leave London to-morrow to join the P. & 0. S. Macedonia at Marseilles. He it to visit Singapore and Hongkong and will confer with the respective Governors regarding the interests which the Straits Settlements and Hongkong have in common with British North Borneo.
Sir West Ridgeway will then tour the whole country administered by the British North Borneo Company to investigate existing conditions with a view to farther development. He will retarn to England at the end of April.—
At St. Paul's, Minnesota, the second section of the trans-continental express collided with the first section to-day. Nine persons were killed and may were seriously injured.—Reuter.
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