Tae following Wuchang notes are from the Universal Gazette:—The Hupeh cotton spinning and weaving mills at Hanyang are now running short time. Business since spring had been exceedingly good, most of the output having been sent to the order of Szechuan merchants, Lately, however, owing to the bankruptoy of a number of Szechuan hongs, a; ting it is said a total of something like three million taels, there has been no money to take over the yarn and piece goods of the two mills in question, in consequence of which the authorities there now have nearly 3,000 bales in excess on their hands.—A deputy from Lanchou, Kansu, has lately arrived to take over'a large messrs. Carlowitz & Ca. of Shanghai, the of Mauser rifles, ordered through money for which isto be paid by Viceroy Chang from the annual contribution of Hupeh to the military exchequer of Kansu and Chinese Turkestan, This consignment of arms and ammunition filled over a dozen junks,—H.E. the Viceroy, in hi scheme for the widening of the streets of the provincial capital, intends to mako house-owners on either side of the streets ive up a strip of land equal to three feet ju width, a uniform compensation being given at the rate of Tls. 40 per foot.
Tae Universal Gazette states that it is reported that as soon as it became known in Peking that Kang Vu-wei was a proscribed man most of his personal followers and disciples started to hide, and amongst them was the well-known M.A., Liang Chiteao, former Editor of the Chinese Progress Tt is reported that he arrived at Tien! by train " Teed—_ to appear openly anywhere, although most spe fous fo. telegraph to his friends in Shanghai, about the catastrophe which was impending over Kang and his friends. But Liang had no pencil or pen to write the message nor did he dare to ask any one for it. At last he picked up a piece of charcoal on the rood on the outskirts of city of Tientsin and with this in his hand he found a retired spot where he indited on a ra of paper a warning to his friends at this port where there is an institution called. the, Tatung Book Translating Bureau, established by a recent Imperial edict by Lisng Chi-tsao himself. The staff here therefore gained enough time to make themselves scarce before the Shanghai Taotai, in obedience premises. Search is now being made for instructions from Peking, sealed up the Liang but, so far, it appears, unsuccessfully.
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