Tokyo, Aug. 5.
Matsukata—of the Ship Building Compan; Mr. Matsukata is President of the Kobe Gas Company and a director of the Company promotors with the aid of foreign capital in the form of bonds. The price to be paid by the new owners of Levers in Japan is said to be something over three millions of yen, The Prince Regent left for Saghalien this morning from Yokosuka by the warship Nagato together with Princes ssu and Aaskira Kuni, escorted by four destroyers, They return on August 17. The departure was originally scheduled for August 8, but this as prevented by the political crisis, 'A visit to Saghalien by an imperial prince is unprecedented, Reuter's Pacific Service, In this connexion the "Japan Chronicle" says:—
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