... Beresford is returning to London early in the New Year. The popular sailor, says a Malta correspondent, is ambitious of re-entering political life, and many of his friends would like to see him a candidate for the City of London at the next vacancy. During ...

... liwantung Province and the South Manchurian Railway Zone. The book contains several illustrations, and a map showing the sphere of activity of the Bank. The Christmas number of Chambers's Journal (price Is. 6d.) contains a long complete story entitled ...

... THE LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS. South Kensington, of the firm of Petersen and ' s i me es, London and Singapore, who died on Dec. 5, bequeaths an annuity of £l OO to his brother th e las ni liinchin Simons; his furniture and household e ffects, and the ...

... THE LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS. 85 Palace. He does not leave his apartments, knowing a price has been put on his head by a Manchu party and also a good number of Chinese &publicans. From which it follows that the famous statesman's influence is far from ...

... by some charactsristic illustrations. The whole makes a capital addition to the numerous stories of the China seas. The readers of Messrs. Longman's Colonial Library s er i es are being well catered for this autumn. Three new bo o k s have been issued ...

... THE LONDON AND CHINA- EXPRESS. MISCELLANEOUS. - - - THE first Bombay opium sale of the new season was held on 13th inst. One thousand three hundred and eighty chests belonging to next year's export fetched an average of R 5.1,666, compared with from Ra ...

... communication to a London firm :—I have announcement to you that my -- will be held from the later part of October to the end of November, which succeeded last year with four thousands from any point of the world, at my store for taking new for the season ...

... contrivances then in use for gathering and publishing news, this feat speaks volumes for the enterprise and pluck of the poor, much-maligned purveyors of news in those days. The publication of these news-sheets was confined to the capital city, Yedo, and ...

... match at Ha wick. 0 The figures of the Christmas work at the General Postoffice show that it has been abnormal. The average number of letters passing through the office in in ordinary week Is 12,500,000. In the Christmas week just over the number was 20,000 ...

... entirely new description of the countries dealt with, written in a bright and vivacious style by wellknown Frenchmen, and the beautiful illustrations in colour in the English edition will be retained. En Chine is the first volume of the new series to ...

... questions of detail rather than of principle. The only strictly new • Ii tte irk rill the and ney It is blish ratan i first Ling. iphed Great to the sore of ball in ;sr the voi ced . the of ay new point involved was the supposed difficulty presented by the ...

... monopoly, the former are ousting the latter from the trade. The advent of a new Japanese steamship company in the China trade or the branching out of the German lines in a new direction has come to be regarded as so many more nails in the coffin of British ...