Last year the Governor of Kuangsi reported the efforts he was making to introduce the cultivation of the mulberry and the rearing of the silkworm into. the province. Weaving establishments have been erected at Kueilin Fu and Wuchow Fu and the industry is being taken up in a large number of other districts by the gentry and people who have subscribed capital for carrying on the enterprise. Kuangsi being, however, naturally poor province, the question' of funds becomes one of great ditticulty, A. graduate, named Chang Shan-chi, a native of Ch'tianchou, has subscribed Tls. 1,000 for the purpose, and as an encouragement to others to follow his example; he has received permission to erect memorial arch bearing an inscription the sums charged for interbients, and askeulogising the generosity of his parents by ing whether such exorbitant charges are whose precepts the donation was originally authorised by the Council. inspired.
Decided to reply that the only agteement the Council have with the Municipal Sexton is as to the charge for a grave space Meetings. including the opening of the ground, and that the charge for an interment is a matter for private arrangement with an under-
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