Mr. L. C. Hopkins has taken up residence in the Consulate-General in Tientsin, Mr. C, W. Campbell has gone to Peking as Chinese Secretary to the Legation, to the regret of everybody in Tientsin; there is however, one consolation, he can in his new influential position be of the greatest service to Tio!
Comte Clu Chaylard goes on well deserve ed promotion as Minister to Brazil; our French neighbours in him lose an able man and an extremely energetic custodian of French interests. The new French Settlement that is already rising Phoenix-li from the ruins of the old is the Consul-General's creation. All Chinese tenements, shops, ete., have been cleared off and new streets and boulevards are the order of the day. Water and _electriclight installations are to follow. The Chinese, who after all are the best tax-payers, are to be relegate to the new parts of the Concession. One may ask how all this is being financed? Well, there is much financial virtue in salt; our alert neigh-hours took possession of the vast property of the salt gabelle last autumn and found financial salvation therein. I may stale that our people at one time had rheic sentries on this property but withdrew them, If the affair were searched into, I should not be surprised to find that we lost this enormous asset (worth several millions of taels) through want of bunting, as well as lack of prescience.
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