It will be remembered that about two months ago we published a Wuchang di patch in these columns reporting tie 2 rival at Siangtan, Hunan province, of some 5,000 Miaotze aboriginal troops who had been raised in Kueichou for the "Fescuo" of the Empress Dowager in the North. A second dispatch now states that, owing to want of funds to pay these 'Miaotze troops as well as lack of supplies en route, this Miaotze brigade is still at Siangtan' having refused to march at other step unless given their full dues. Of late the impatience of the aborigines has caused them to prey upon the country; and to stop them from doing so—they had hitherto maintained some diseipline—the Governor of Hunan, Lien-san, has been compelled to give the troops one-half of their par, the re-
Kueichou who sent them up North.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.