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- the 9th instant from heart failure following a severe shock received! through a ricsha accident about . three weeks before. Mr. Lucas, who i was the founder and principal of1 the firm of Lucas Co., was oney of the best knnvn of the foreign s residents of the port, and had held e several prominent public positions.3 He was, at one time President ofi the Kobe Club, and for several yearsi was President of the Royal Society s of St. George, holding this office up 1 to the time of his death. He was* an Englishman, and in all patriotic “ movements was always to the fore.1 Mr. Lucas, who was sixty-seven 1 years of age, was a Churchman,and for years was actively asso-l ciated with the governing body of s All Saints’ Church, Kobe.1 The appointment of Japanese1 Trade Commissioners abroad would s seem to be a failure after a brief ' experience of only a year or two, j says the “Japan Chronicle.” Theseofficials were appointed on the• initiative of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, but^ were placed under the jurisdiction of of the Foreign Office, and were ‘ stationed at London, New York,j Hongkong, and Shanghai. It is re--e ported that of the four Commissioners Mr. Tawara, at London, Mr. Shido, at New York, and Mr- Aoki,’ at Hongkong, have announced their j. intention to resign. The two last-named, who are now in Japan, will , not return to their former posts again. The reasons leading them to j send in their resignations, it is said,2 are their limited official jurisdiction and the insufficient means placed aty their disposal.e In spite of the' penalties imposed e from time to time upon natives for per-, mitting opium smoking upon their- premises, the practice continues and i on Monday the Police reported two fur-s ther arrests. The first case was that in- which a native named Woo Sye was3 taken into custody for using his pre-t mises in Nanyin Road as an unlicensedclub. When a search vas made of the ^ building it was descovered that opium ^ smoking had also taken place, and a e number of pipes and lamps were foundand seized. In the second case thepolice visited a house, , 62 ( unninuiham ’ Road, and found a number of Chinesesmoking opium. They promptly took possession of the paraphernalia, andarrested the native occupier of the r premises. It is stated that quite a g number of native house and shops per-r mifc this surreptitious smoking of opium v within the f ettleinent boundary, and native police officers have been detailed% off to watch these places suspected,lt;■s As reported some weeks ago, an , Englishman named W. Darcy 1 Hawkshaw, aged 30, was arrested- by the Yokohama police, at the re-e quest of the Chemulpo police, on ad charge of absconding with a large sum of money belonging to the t British-American Tobacco Company 1 of Chemulpo, of which he wasmanager. The prisoner was subsequently sent back to Chemulpoand was under examination by the Chemulpo branch of the Seoul Local Court. The “Seoul Press” re-ports that the examination came toan end a few days ago, with. the result that HawkBhaw was acquitted on the ground of insufficiency of evidence. The judgement says that the prisoner drew Y3,700 between December 9 1911, and March 26, 1912, from the deposit amounting to more than Yl5,000 placed by the company in the Chemulpo branch on the Bank of Chosen. Of this sum he sent Yl,l00 at Chemulpoand went to Yokohama on March 20, carrying with him the rest of the money. The Court, however, finds the evidence insufficient thatthe accused had the intention ofabsconding with the money, and forthis reason he is acquitted..ACCIDENT TO NY.K. STEAMER.The N.Y.K. Shanghai liner Yama-guchi Maru ran aground near Kuru-shima Channel, in the Inland Sea, at about 10 p.m. on the 7th instant, while en route from Moji to Kobe. She was, however, later refloated, and continued her voyage to Kobe, where she was repaired.THE DACRE CASTLE FLOATED.The str. Dacre Castle which went ashore in the Red Sea on May 16, while on a voyage from New York to the Philippines, got off on May 29, with the assistance of the salvage steamer Protector, and arrived at Suez on May 30. The after peak was found to be leaking, and she has sustained slight damage to the helm. Seven hundred tons of cargo had to be discharged altogether. Cargowas jettisoned to the extent of about 150 tons.THE O.S.E.S. TAITO WRECKEDThe steamer Taito (2,000 tons), owned by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, which left China for Yokohama onMav 27, struck a rock on the1/ *morning of the 1st instant, says the “ Japan Times,” in the neighbourhood of fort Chiyogasaki, off Kuriha-ma, Uraga. The ship was loaded with 1,700 tons of beans and there were only three Japanese passengers aboard. The passengers and half the cargo were saved by fishingboats. The rest of the cargo .was lost with the ship. The mast of the ship is now just visible above the water. The loss is roughly put at Y. 80,000.JAPANESE CONSULAR COURTAt the Japanese Consular Court on Wednesday before Mr. T. Okomoto, Vice Consul, H. H. Chung, a Koreansubject, onremandfrom the 17th instant,was charged with keeping a commonand ill-governed, disorderly house, known as the United Ptates Hotel, at at 1 Hon Fok Terrace, North Pzechuen Road extension, during the months of May and June of this year.After S^t. Hepburn had given evidence, his Honour decided that as
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