WHAT MAY BEFALL A MAN IN JAPAN. Mr T. Pringl-% of Wellington, the well known amateur photographer, had an excit ing adventure with the authorities during his recent visit to Japan. The complication arose out of Mr Pringle's enthusiasm for photography. Early on the morning on the day upon which his steamer (the Kasuga) was to sail, homeward bouiKl, from Naga saki, Mr Pringle was on deck taking a pano ramic photograph of the harbour. An hour or so later, as Mr Pringle was preparing to go ashore in a sampan, a Japanese officer and an interpreter came on board the Ka suga, and the Wellingtonian, to his great surprise, was arrested. He and his photo graphic plates were taken ashore, the latter being developed, whilst "the foreigner" was closely examined as to his doings in the country and object of his camera operations. The Japanese could hardly credit that their prisoner was an amateur taking pictures for his own pleasure, and a great deal was made of his having committed a breach of port regulations by takinsr photographs inside the forbidden area. However, he was "let off with a caution" on promising that he •would take no more views of Nagasaki, and those taken were conljscated. It is Mr Pringle's intention to write an account of his tour, and he has brought back a fine col lection of photographs, about 200 of which were taken by himself.
