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her, BLE. Sheng on Sick-leave.
As may be remembered by readers of these columns it was expected that H.E. Sheng, Director-General of Southern Railways, ete., ete., would go up in a few days North to Peking and thence by rail to Chénting to have an audience with the Empress Dowager. We now learn that HE. has been detained by indisposition from leaving Shanghai and has, moreover, received permission from the Throne to take 'a rest of twenty days to recruit his healt!
A School of Agriculture and Handicrafts at Taiyuan.
A Taiyuan dispatch to the "Universal Gazette" states that a School of Agriculture and Handicrafts was opened in that h the Governor Ts'én Ch'un-hsien on th ultimo, and that H.E. had also teles to the Chinese Minister at Tokio, Sheng-tu, to select and engage for the School a qualified Japanese instructor who will take charge of the institution for a cern term of years.
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