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Show LATEST NEWS FROM JAPAN. The Hire Crop a Failure In Siani f.arth-ipisk... f.arth-ipisk... in .lava. San Fhancisio, Feb. 4. Advices from Japan by tho steamship Gaelic say the silk trade is in a very bad way. East year's losses to merchants was over Jj, 000,000, and according to the present appearances the losses will continue con-tinue some time yet. There is a serious state of affairs in Siam, owiug to the failure of the rice crop, l lie .Mercantile tia.elte ot loKa hama says unless ellicient measures are taken to meet the emergency, rebellion and riot by starving unemployed, followed fol-lowed by epidemics, will surely be the order of the day. There was a serious earthquake in Java, December Vi, the town of Joana being terribly damaged. Twelve persons per-sons were killed and seventeen injured. |