A Peking dispatch states that Li Hung-chang, in his capacity of Viceroy of Chihli province, has appointed a prefect, named Chien, and a distrieh magistrate, named Chou, to be respectively prefect and district magistrate of Tientsin. These two official are now residing in Tientsin await further instructions before taking 0 their seals, Apropos of these new appointments it is further stated that Li Lu chang has appointe to be the new sub-prefect of Ts'angchou, near the Shantung borders.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.