Report says that the Empress Dowager is soon going to the Eho Palace—aud the Emperor is to accompany her in order to ensure him the loving attention and kind nursing his delicate health demands!
The Mivisters in Peking have not yet been favoured with the usual New Year's audience, The time for it lias long passed and no one seems to know whether it will take place this year or not.
I have asked large number of people who usually well-informed on Palace rs and not one of them can give the information as to the present state of Emperor's health or prospects. There mous silence, and we can only "faintly hope" that no news is good news, Olten this is not the ease in Ching, ighly-favoured land cannot be expected to conform to Western ways, therefore its proverb would be "No news is bad news"
much the worse for His Majesty Kuang Hai, According to precedent, the "Imperiul Examinations" should Jong ere this announced, but not x word has said, and ff the silence continues nunch Tonger it will augur badly for Kuang Unii's chances of seeing the thirties his reign commemorated in the Another visit of the wives of the Amba sadors to comfort his "dear aunt" will tend to speedily terminate his
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.