'The office carries with it no consular duties whatever—those will continue to be performed, as heretofore, for Irishmen as for all other British subjects, by the British Consulate-Generai—but should anyone have an idea of a trade openig' between Ireland and China, cither way, Mr. Craig-Martin will do his best to assist. As to when ther there are many trade opportunities at the moment, the trade agent frankly admitted that he could not say there were, but one never knew what might' develop when the world settled down again, and the Free State Government did not intend to be caught napping should a chance of business occur. the resumed inquest at H. M. Police Court on Tuesday on Gerald Dean, who died in the General Hospital on the 13th instant, the Coroner (Me. King) returned a verdict that deceased suecombed to an attack of acute castro-enteritis produced by an irritant poison whic' was inadvertentedly self-administered on the night of January 8, sion. at 171a North Szechuan Road Exten
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