20th November.
Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, who, as already predicted in these "Notes," will visit. Nanking for a conference with Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, after the burial of the former's step-unther in the ancestral buryinggroundofthe Yuan family at Hsiang-chenghsien, Honan, is expected at Hankow by train from Singyangchou, Honan, on or about the 97th instant.
The Denunciation of Sheng Kung-pao, according to a Peking dispatch to hand, which was made the other day by a couple of well-known Censors, consists of twelve counts, charging him with avarice, extravagance, and nepotism. A report circulated in local mandarin circles yesterday now states that the Throne has ordered Viceroy Chang Chih-tung to investigate the charges, and that he has appointed a couple of his subordinate officers to come to Shanghai and make secret enquiries thereanent.
The Trouble at the Nanyang College.
With reference to the wholesale resignation of the 200 scholars of the Nanyang College, at Sicawei, due to the prohibition by certain of the reactionary tutors of the reading by the students of moder-nixed and progressive newspapers and books, chronicled in these "Notes" vesterday morning, it is now stated that Mr. Wang Feng-tsao, Hanlin Academist and President of the College, who supported the tutors in their opposition against the students, has sent in his resignation to Sheng Kung-pao, who is Chief Director of that Institution. Chinese-like the "resignation." is framed in an application for eave of absence, which being granted, will enable the applicant to postpone his return to the College sine die. There is, of corse, much regret felt in certain quarters at the unfortunate contretemps, but the credit of the students it must be said that they acted in a most orderly manner, and not the least sign of boister-onsness was manifested towards their teachers from the time the latter refused to pardon the students who had been found reading "new" books and newspapers to the moment when the whole body of them shook the dust of the College off their feet at the entrance gates of the Institntion. Qn the other hand, it is affirmed that some of the Conservative tutors showed much unnecessary jieat and Jondness when addressing their quondam scholars, producing a decided contrast between the two opposing camps.
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