Last reports. modify considerably the fon ner statements in regard to the accident at the Tongshan mines, We now hear that only'about 20 men lusted of 50 were in the mines when the sink occurred, most of whom were rescued alive, We still feel uncertain just what the facts are. Several reports have been afloat. It is even suid that the report of ay many lust was an attempt to extort Large sum of money begins.
A third measure is the planting from the camp but that an enforced of trees on useless ground, and of mul roll call revealed the falsehood. it is berries and bamboos in suitable spots in {dificult to learn the exact truth unless! the hills.
The local gentry have been one ison the ground; even then the required to form a society which shall fiction-loving character of the Chinese Vundertake this work. In the adjacent might make the task no easy one. districts of Kintan and-Liyang there is a good deal of high and poor. land, where AMI well-wishers ut China and railway the distress is greater than in other places. The local authorities of these two hsien schemes, will regret the resignation of W.
N. Pethick, Esq. his position on the have been ordered to issue what may be Board of Managung Directors, news of necessary from their storehouses, and they has reached you already. Mr. Pethick has have been given six thousand strings each been a faithful, conse enti-us, and trusted /from the general fund. In the one district adviser of the Viceroy Li, and one who has this money will be spent in relief works, always had at heart the best interests in the other in supplementing the grain in the storehouses. There is much want also of China, Already are the principles and in the parts of Wuchin which touch Tan-methods of which he secured the introduction in the interests of careful honest yang. It is therefore arranged that all contributions from Wuchin shall be svt and efficient management being overturned, and the old methods brought again to the apart for local use.—. front, Tried, faithful, and efficient men are OPrUM LIKIN IN HoNAN, being discharged, and their places are filled "The Governor of Honan presents a report by new men (from the south) and in ma' concerning the likin collected on opium leases by those who had been discharged in that province during the seven mouths for known inefficiency and dishonesty or both. Mr. Pethick has been in China ov 20 years, and leaves in a few days for first visit to the home land. ~The best lends go with him; Chinese, nasty have testi= fied their appreciation oF hi services in various presentations, gth May. which formed the first half of last year. The amount collected at the provincial capital is not stated, but in the rest of the province the receipts for foreign opium came to Tls. 4,207. Also, in Shangeh'iv and eight other producing districts, where the local drug is taxed in the markets, the duty paid was Tls. 2,433, These sums are greater than those in the preceding year. ith March,
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