Daring the two or three days in July last when the Boxers were having things all their own way, this scholar was directing the movement from the den in the seaport of Kungnot'ao. When the Nanyang Edict came, and the fortunes of the Boxer rabble sud: ienly collapsed, -our villainous scholae sent in a petition to tie magistrate denouncing the Boxer Rising, which he had just the day before been piloting with wil his wicked power For ways thit ave dark, and tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
ARRANGING INDEMNITIES, Oar able Consul Wilkinson has just paid us his usual monthly visit and has done some good business in getting the needful indemnities for lo.ses in the recent troubles put in a fair way towards speedy settlement. Pere Louat, R. C. priost-in-charge, has got back again, after paying a visie to Peking. He too is seeking to come to terms with the officials for recent losses.
He puts the losses of his mission at $20,000, and of R. C. converts at another $20,000.
20th December.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.