HIS EXCELLENCY CHAO, Governor of the Kiangsu province, reached Tsingkiangpu on the 6th of April, on the tour of inspection which is required by law to be made, he Governor is considered by the Chinese to be what is known in the "woolly west" of America as a "hustler." On the day of his arrival here he began to review the troops ofthe Grain Commissioner and Brigadier-General stationed in this city. The inspection continued two days, in which time about 6,000 soldiers were put through the curious system of evolutions known as "foreign drill." The review here being completed, the Governor at once set out for Chiichoufu in the north-western end of the province, and the muster and drilling of the troops of that prefecture being finished, ho returned to Tsingkiangpu on the 17th of April where he at once embarked for Chin-Kiang, several steam launches with a large number of passenger boats being in waiting for him.
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