(2) Li Ping-hong, Provincial Treasurer and Acting Governor of Kuangsi, is permitted to retire on the ground of ill-health.
(Nore.—It is probable that Li Ping-hong, who has administered the government of Kuangsi with much credit fora considerable period and during difficult times, is disappointed to find himself passed' over in favour of the Minister Shen of the Tsung-li Yamen, whose appointment to the governorship of Kuangsi was recently announced. The selection of a Tsung-li Yamen Minister for Kuangsi was doubtless on account of the likelilivod of international questions of difficulty arising with the French on the frontier of Tongkin
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