(3) Shao Vu-lien, who was formerly Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg and more recently Taotai at Shanghai, reports that he has entered uy his duties as Lieutenant-Governor of Formosa. He had to remain in Honan, where he was Judicial Commissioner, until the Autumn Assizes were over, and he was detained by illness for nearly a month in Shanghai. He reached Formosa on the 7th September. He refers to the arrangements that °~> now being made for developing the resources of the island and reducing the aboriginal inhabitants, and expresses a fear that he may be unable to sustain the onerous duties of his new post.
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