We hear that Mr. Goebel, Belgian Consul-General, has at the request of Ma, Director of the C.M.S.N. Ca,, obtained from Belgium the services ofa skilled Mining Engineer, M. Brave, M. Brave, who is a first-class specialist, is expected to arrive in a fow days by the French mail.
The Governor of Shantung has succeeded in obtaining the removal of the prohibition to import Shingking cereals into Shantung, From Kin-chow, the part of the Manchurian province where the harvest was not at all good, a limit is imposed on the quality allowed to be exported to Shantung.—Shén Pao.
the first day of the 4th Moon, (20th of this province as the day when all April) has been appointed by the Governor
in official positions are to replace the wi by the summer hat. A Chinese official who had inaccurate' information on. this subject went lately to see the Viceroy in summer hat thinking the 25th April was the day for change of head-gear; he was informed of his error at the Yamen gate, and returned in high dudgeon, causing much merriment in others. -Hu Pao.
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