The late Fantai of this province has passed through Chungking on his way to take up office as Sluin Fu of Kueichou. This means promotion for the man who at the time of the Chengtu riots was, it is alleged, callously indifferent to the welfare of those not a stone's throw away from his yanén she were posing through "fiery. trials" gates. The incident requires no comment.
Mr. Kato, H. I. J. Ins Consul at this port, has gone to Japan with the object of bringing his family here. Mr. Kato is a most Kis holiday is over. Mr. Smithers, the nial man and will be welcomed back when
American Consul, is also bent upon travel and meditates a visit to the historical capital ofthe west The latest news of the great rapid is that the water having risen considerably it is now possible for junks to cross with ease, transhipment being no longer necessary. The Imperial Post is toiling on—struggling against great difficulties, and leertainly not with entire success. Would it not have been well to have allowed the old systems to remain in operation until such time as the machinery of the new had been perfected and tested? Even in far-away Chungking murmurs are to be heard at the way in which the new and so far imperfect [Post has been established, and at the mauner in which being worked. Still one supposes it is with us to stay, and as it grows in age it is sincerely to be hoped that the needs of the public will be more and more satisfactorily met.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.