Japan Up To Date

Japan i goiug ahad. Iti flrat big ffwindla i really very creditable pieos of roguery foc iuob a yonngnation. Mr. Hamano, tb member of the diet and pastor of tb Greek chnrch at Tokyo, ■who i alo preaident of the Japan Cast Iron oompany, bclongi to a politioo-religiona typ airead familiar in tbe older hauiiti of commercial murolity. Tbs muiiicipality of Tokyo had deoideá to tindertake a watcrworki tyetem, and bad obtaioed a labsidyfrom tbegoTernmeut of 15,000,000 yen ia aid of tbe total estímate of 80,000,000. Inapatiiotio moment lom of thi oatlay of JapanaM money on -wator pipei ira kapt for the Japan Oait Iron company, hut tbe raault bas ouly bB to artifloially fartar forign ralbar than hom indattri. Bya ment ingenioai devic about 800 ton of defectire pipes were laid after they had been rejpcfed by the olerk of the worki, and tbe Tokyo citiaens, it ia estimated, thereby suffer a losi of abont 1,000,000 yen. The officials of the oompany are now awaiticg trial - wbich apparently does not prevent the newspapers in Japan