The Sintoanpao states that it has received a telegram from Peking announcing tht BLE. Kung Chiao-yung, lately Provincial Treseurer of Szechuan, has already bei received in audience by the Throne and that a decree was promulgated on the 11th ant appointing that official Minister to Great Britain and France with the brevet rank of a Vice-President of x Board and the substantive rank of the 3rd Metropolitan grade, This last is equal to the rank of Futai or Governor in the provinees.
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