By a Decree dated Wednesday, Ni Wén-wei, until recently Governor at Canton, i appointed Governor of Honan Province."
The supply of Soochow silk is in excess of the demand, and prices per hundred ounces have accordingly declined a dollar or two since the opening of the market. Luang-shan silk is now about $22, and Wusih silk about $20 the hundred ounces.
The Peking mints have already turned out over 400,000 strings of the new cash, which according to the Shen Pav, are mace chow to pay the soldiers fill their wages 1.7 each in weight. Tt is proposed at Foo"
in cash, but the new coins there are only about half the weight of the new Pekin cash. The machine made Japanese cas! are mace 0.7 each in weight, The Hu-pao says that the Tartar General of Ili has sent special courier to Peking to announce the proximity of over 10,000 Russian troops on the common frontier; he adds that the necessary precautions have already been taker There has been a riot at Canton in eonneetion with the failing of the old-established 'T'ai-hing Bank, which the populace began to pull down about the occupants' ears, There has been a second very serious disturbance in connection with the homicide of a Chinese stunted-tree seller by a Manchu, The Tartar General had ordered him. to be cangued as a first step pending formal trial of the case; but the mob of bannermen rushed to the Colonel's Yamen, rescued the prisoner, and protested against the dignity in force within the Tartar General's own gates.
The Shen-pao says that one of the mail boats between Shanghai and Kashing was plundered last Monday outside Kashing, and all the opium, money and valuable property taken from the carriers, the Yah-yuen and the Sun-zing agencies.
There have been very serious floods in the neighbourhood of Wéenchow and Ch'n-chow, the two southern prefectures of Ché- kiang.
Very serious floods are reported from inner Chekiang, the upper Hangchow river having been greatly swollen by the rai and done great daninge. Foochow has also been flooded, and boats have been plying in the city itself.
The Hu Pao ventures to submit a little advice to the Municipal Councils, First, the streets want repairing in some places, notably just north of the New Vegetable Market." Second, furious driving should be put a stop to, notably in the French Maloo and_the fourth' English Malo, (Foochow Rod), where small crowds frequently congregate before the theatres and book-shops. Third, persons should be made to conform to Municipal Regitlations in the side streets, and not be allowed to pile up garbage within forbidden hours. Fourth, the sale of firearms should be prohibited, notably on the Yang-king-pang Bund in accordance with Regula tions. Fifth, the garbage coolies should be made to do their work impartially, as at present new houses or tenants are sometimes squeezed, and unless the occasional squeeze is paid, the garbage is not cleared away or is cleared dilatorily.
The neighbourhood of Soochowis reported to have suffered from the recent excessive rain.
There is now visiting Nanking a distinguished Corean scholar of Chinese descent named Chao Yith-po. His suave manners, and his skill in calligraphy and making verses are causing a great sensation in the literary capital,
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