Mills Ca., Ld., has given Aberdeen University an endowment of £750 a year to found a lectureship on pathology, especially in regard to malignant diseases—Reuter.
Tre Japanese Government contemplates enlarging the scope of the Stee] Foundry in Kyushu with a UN
201 fund of Y.87,000,000, the works to be spread over five consecutive years, A Bill to secure sanction for this sep will be introduced to the Diet at the end of the month.
Tae "Kielerseitung" states. that Prince Furstenberg, an intimate friend of the German Emperor, has ordered the copper roofs of his splendid castle at Dounuschingen to be dismantled for war purpose and to be replaced by paper-maché stitute. The work is already progress.
On January 12 a French Chamber: of Commerce, which has been under discussion for some time, was definitely constituted. The members elected to serve on the committee were:—Messrs, Ackermann, Binder, Bridou, Camarck, Coursier, La-~ banat, G. Lion, Madier and Marthoud.
It is reliably reported that Lieut.- Gen. Aoki is on his way to Shanghai to be attached in a military capacity to the Japanese Consulate. He was formerly Military Attache at Peking and has been occupying the position of Commandant of Port Arthur Fortress.
On Thursday afternoon (13th instant) the cruiser Tone, commanded by Vice-Admiral Nomaguchi, left Bascho southwards, According to the "tachi,"" the Tone, together with, the-cruisers Tsushima and Niitaka, which had preceded her in the same direction, is to undertake patrol duty in southern waters.
As Chinhsien in Fengtien i important town on the Mukden Railway line and situated also between South Manchuria arid Eastern Mongolia, the Ministries of Finance, Interior, Communications and Agriculture and Commerce are jointly contemplating the opening off the town as a trading port.
The "Mainichi" states that the Japanese Government has recently received an order from the Belgian authorities at Havre for rifles and knitted goods. In part fulfilment of the order, the Okura Company is to send 60,000 rifles, which have already been conveyed to Kobe. The rifles are shortly to be shipped to Havre.
RecENT statistics show that Japan ished 3,000,000 rifles to Russia since the war began, and has, also furnished ammunition for three month's use of these weapons. Jo pan has also contracted to furnish, Russia with 3,000,000 shells for heavy artillery. The War Office in to distribute the contract among private manufactures, Osx the evening of January 13, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Companies of the Fire Brigade attended a small outbreak at No.
250 Yangteepwo Road. a Chinese cloth shop near the Sang Sing Cote ton Mill. Before the arrival of the brigade the fire had been dealt with inal from
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