Reiss & Ca, Hankow, has been spending a few days in Shanghai.
Queen Mary will unveil the Florence Nightingale Memorial at 8t. Paul's on the 14th.—Reuter Special, Ir is officially announced that His Majesty the King will not be present at the opening of Parliament.
Tae Rt. Hon. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia, has ad a long audience with the King.—Reuter.
Tue Crown Prince of Servia has arrived at Corfu on board a French torpedo-boat. He received a great ovation.—Reuter Special.
Tue Russian Government has ordered two meat fast-days a week. A reduction in the soldier's ration is also proposed.—Reuter. nounced that the Panama Canal will be closed till a permanent channel can be guaranteed, probably within two months.—Reuter.
Mr. John Forster, who has been Honorary Consul-General—_for China in London since 1908, retired from the post on December 31, 1915.
Tue French Minister of Finance had a conference on Tuesday with Mr. Reginald McKenna, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.—Reuter.
Amonast the names of those "mentioned in despatches" by Viscount French, is that of an old Tientsin resident, Father Grobel, or.
Clemente Markham, late President of the Royal Geographical Society, died from shock, having been badly burned in a fire at his Japanese residents of San Francisco have presented the Emperor of Japan with two horses as a Coronation gift. They were to be shipped on the 5th instant.
De. Anton van Gyn, Treasurer-General of the Department of Finance, has been appointed Minister of Finance, says Reuter's correspondent at The Hague.
As a token of Franco-Japanese friendship, the Emperor of Japan has been pleased to confer the Grand Cordon of the Chrysanthemum on President Poincaré.
Revter's Zurich correspondent telegraphs:—Austria has confiscate ed all leather which will have a disastrous effect on one of Aus-trio's most: profitable industries.
Avrnority has been given to the National Bank of the Philippines to issue notes. The limit is placed fro
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