JAPAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 641, 17 October 1878, Page 2

JAPAN.

[from the correspondent of the PRESS AGENCY.] Yokohama, A ligast 15. The internal loan of twelve and a half million million dollars has, been floated, but is not considered very successful by Government. There are now 115 National banks in Japan, with capitals ranging from seventeen million dollars to fifty thousand dollars of the smaller establishments. A noticeable feature about the new loan is that Government have been compelled to pay 20 per cent premium for them own paper, while its value in foreign estimation is 7£ per cent discount. There is great apprehension about this season’s rice crop. A new wharf extension of 2400 yards further into the harbor is to be made at Yokohama, so that ships of any size may come alongside to load I and discharge. I In a thunder storm in the province ! of Mino, three men were killed by lightning./ • ; . Of the assassins of the late Home Minister, six were beheaded, four were sentenced to imprisonment for life, and eighteen to various terms of long imprisonment. ’ The infant Prince Imperial of Japan is dead. This leaves the Emperor childless. / | Sporadic cases of cholera are reported from various places among the natives. The Glamis Castle, from Am<iy for New York, - with a cargo of tea, got , ashore and remained four days aground, but was lightened and got off after throwing 1300 tons of cargo overboard. x According to the last census the population of Japan is 33,632,678 persons, of whom 17,050,521 are males, and 16,555,157 females. An explosion of fireworks occurred oh' baard a Japanese junk off the Island of Awaji. Out of, sixteen persons on board nine were uiortelly wounded, and the remainder seriously hurt. ■ Sixteen Japanese sailors were taken off St. Peter’s Island, where they bad been cast away for eleven months. During that time they , lived on birds,’ •fish, and rainwater. . ,