Tokyo, Feb. 11.
The estimates of the South Manchuria Railway for the present fiyeal year have been approved by the Government. According to the estimates, the Railway's expenditure will amount to a little over 29,612,000, a decrease of Y. 4,84 000 as compared with the preceding year—Eastern News Agency, AbMiRAt, Prancis Charles Methuen Noel died on Dee. 31 at his residence in Redcliffe Square, 8. W., at the age of 73. He had-over " 40 years' naval service, and, although he commanded men-of-war during the Dongola Expendition, the me surrection in Crete, and the Boxer rebellion in China, he did not per= sonally have a chance of service in action. The Admiral was a consi of Admiral of the Flest Sir Gerald Noel, Commander-in-Chief in China, and at the Note. Following his promotion to captain, he was given command of the cruiser Wallaroo, in Australia, and served in her during the China War of 1900, for which he was aivarded the China dal
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