Great difficulty is being experienced in settling the Roman Catholic claims for losses incurred in the late riots. Probably the new Tuotai will have to get into harness before the affair is finally settled. The Taotai, in the meantime, is preparing the way, the indemnity demanded by the Roman Catholics having got down to the much lower figure of $60,000.
ELE. Li is improving his stay in Ningpo by erecting additional forts at Ching!
25th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.