There is a great desire to try and find a hill resort near Ichang for the summer. Several parties have been on the search but nothing satisfactory has been found yet, There are plenty of hills, but they are too precipitous and most of them are destitute of water at the top. We still hope a place may be found to make us independent of Kuling as the steamer fares are 80 exorbitant.
REBELS AND SOLDIERS, There were two executions on Tuesday morning. The men were captured rebels, Several prisoners are in joll waiting sentence. A new camp is being built about two miles below the settlement for 500 soldiers, We are to have two camps now with 500 men in each, Ist April. or independent sub-prefect, is in the wind, to include Hankow and the nor-them bank of the Han, as far as Hsin-Kou, 40 miles up the river, Chang Chibtung hopes to create this new Zing by the united territorial contributions of the three counties of Hanyang, Hungp'i, and Heinokan. And the. matter has duly referred to the Board of Civil Appointments (one of the Six Boards at Peking). The new independent sub-prefecture is to be called Hsiak'ou'ting (5 [1 18) by reversion to the ancient name for Hankow. Wuchang was anciently known as the Kingdom of Kianghsia (77 J), Yangtze Summer, or Luxuriant Variegation as_of Summer, and so the lower river which found its outlet into the Yangtze, near that erty kingdom, was known as the Hsia iver. It is too early to say what this new departure
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