The morning call., 1890-08-15

elected by their orders. Thus the numbers
Of vacancies to be filed reached twenty
four, and the Government adopted the
course declaring that these seats should be
filled by the peers who had received the
greatest number of votes after those pre-
viously elected.
The cholera at Nagasaki proved fatal in
$50 cases out of total of 400.
The japanese Diet will be formally
opened October 9Th.
An public school of Fukni-Ken have been
closed on account of the influenza.
In one district of Toxic 5333 poor people
were found in need of relief.
A bill was drafted to present to the Par
Lament asking for a loan of $500, 600 to
build warships, etc.
The earnings of the Toxic Cable-car Com
pany for the first six months of 1890 were
$4,000, enabling the Directors to pay
dividend of 16 per cent.
The issue of the Miyako Shimbun for
Wednesday, July 23d, having been con-
demned by the Government as menacing
the peace of the country, the further publi-
cation Of the journal has, been suspended.
A proposal, it is stated. has been mooted
IN government circles to issue regulations
prohibiting the holding of political meet
ings within three ri of the capital during
the time that Parliament is in session.
Over thirty steamers, states native
paper, are lying idle in FuShiki harbor un-
able to ship their cargoes of rice owing co
the resistance of the poor there and at Ia
kaoka. Many of the vessels are chartered
for rice, but too strict watch is kept by
the people over the stock it is proposed to
ship.
A native contemporary hears that Mr..
kurlhara Ryoichi, member of Parliament
and one OF Count Itagakps chief supper
tiers, intends to appear in Parliament in
the suit of clothes worn by the count at the
time OF his attempted assassination years
Tod l.
The, erection of the printing office con-
nected with the Imperial Diet. in which all
bills, reports, etc.. connected with that body
will be printed, has been completed, and
the machine purchased in France of the
latest and most improved pattern is ex-
pected here by the 10th of August, when it
will be fitted up on the premises staff
Of thirty COmp0SitOrS from the Govern
ment Printing Bureau will be engaged.
A Chinese firm at Osaka was robbed of
100000 by one OF its trusted employees
The new water supply of Toxic will cost
S6.000,000, and will be completed in TWO
years.
The Japan Herald of July 2Sth says:
Large imports of foreign rice continue to
take place, and in consequence of the pros
pect of good crop. prices show down.
ward tendency.
Cholera still continues to increase in
Nagasaki, and there are sporadic cases
throughout the country. number of cases
and several deaths have occurred on board
the Turkish frigate Ertougroul at this port,
and she is now at the quarantine station.
A shocking catastrophe is reported from
Ehime Ken in the Mainichi Shimbun.
While performance was being given in
the Shineiza theater, one of the rafters from
which a number of lamps were suspended
suddenly gave way, the burning mass fall
ing Oh the audience who were near the
stage and partly on the stage itself A
panic ensued. in the course of which large
number of persons were hurt. When order
was restored, it was found that about six
teen or seventeen persons were wounded
by the lamps, one of whom, a woman, was
so severely burnt that she is not expected
to live.