'The Shanghai Magistrate' has issued a proclamation at Sicawei warning the villagers against the practice of interfering with the telephone wires by throwing over them cords to which stones are attached.
The Tientsin Taotai has issued a proclamation calling the attention of the native merchants to the Brussels Exhibition which is to be opened in May next. The Taotai Wu, (Ng Choy) in charge of the Railway Company, has just lost one of his parents, but, it is believed, will be exempted from the' necessity of retiring into private life during the mourning period.
The Chinese Governaient is now discussing with the representatives at Peking the question of establishing Chinese Consulates in the South Seas wherever there are large Chinese communities.
The Corean correspondent of the Shen Pao says that the Customs authorities are contemplating the taxation of private stores, eto., for the foreign official establishments, hitherto freed from Customs duties. There has been a serious highway robbery committed upon a party of Japanese in the neighbourhood of the Han River between Chemulpo and Seoul.
An earthquake was felt in the district of Flan, Forniosa, on the night of the 8th foreigner there of bined The Hu Pao says that a has traced the frequent earthquakes in that island toa semi-extinct no which occasionally relapses. into activity, The Show Pao says that the Corean Envoy Cho, appointed to Russia, ete., is stil in Hongkong, and that his Secretary of Legation, Li Yung-t'ai has just left vid clerks. The Corean Envoy Min, tempoaguanki to join the staff with one or two tarily recalled from Japan, is prevented from returning to his po st by the absence
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