The Empress Dowager has given com-nds for the lighting up of Eho see with the electric light, and expected tha', as soon as the neces-ary machin-ry has been installed there, the Empress Dowager will move to the Park without further delly, Eho Park having always b en her fav-trite plice of ain Manchu Censor of the jon ary school present: a memorial in which he mak wages against Viceroy Yuan Shih. and j tac! Chen Pik, the Governor of Pekiny. It is not considered probable that the Empress Powager will take any notice of the Censor's memorial, owing to the fact that she knows that half the charges are the result of mere rumours heard in the teashops of Peking. while the animus which prompted the d-nunciatory document was minly due to the jealousy and hatred of the tionaries, amongst whom the Censor is well-known to be one of the most rabic During Prince Su's Chief nership of Octroi at the Ch'ung-wen-gate of Peking the past ten months, or s", his highness's legal perquisites have amounted to a little over Tls. 200,000.
his sum the Privce has putriotiedly refused to pocket, and his highness has me~ ur-realised the Throne that he will devote the amount to the repair and metalling after foreign methods of the roots and streets of Peking. For the upke~p of these streets in the future, Prince Ssu has drawn up a system of monthly taxes to be collected on houses, horses, mules, goods carts and passenger' carts. "The rates will be: 60 "large" copp-r cash for each room in a house, regardless of the size of the room; 2 "tino'—320 eash—for a jinricsha; 4 "'tiao" for each passenger or goods cart an18 "tino" freach pony or mul-, It is 't farther ordered that vehicles drawn by more than two horses or mutes will be prohibited in the future from entering the city walls of the capital.—It is stated in reliable official quarters that Ching Ting. pin, the principal levder of the rebels in south-west Chihli, is still alarge, and that the dead body said to have been his really belonged to a younger brother of his.
The Japanese Commercial Treaty Negotiations.
It is reported in lood mandarin circles that Mr, Odaziri, Japanese Consul-General here, who has been appointed Commercial Commission-r, by the Japanese Government to negotiate the new tariff with the Chinese Commer ial Commissioners, Sheng, Kung-pao and Lit Hxichuan, had his first formal meeting with vie latter on Monday attern on. Me-srs. Taylor and Hippesloy, Commissioner of I. M. Customs, were also present on jon, while Mr. Odagiri was accompanied by the Japa. nese Assistant Commercial Commissioner and an interpreter, The Reduced Export Duty on Tea, Sheng Kung-pao, the Chief Chinese Commercial Commissioner, has received notification from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Peking to the effect that Sir Robert Hart had advised the promulgation of the following schedule re R Export Duty on green and black For every picul valued at T's, above, an export duty of Tls. 2.50 is to be collected in future; for each picul valued at between Tls. 50 and Tls. 30, a duty of Tls. 1.25; for each picul valued at Tls. 20, and less Tls. 0.65. The above hus been notified to all the Customs votals the Treaty ports and it is rebored from Hangchow, the capital of Chékian, province, that the Customs Taotai already commenced to collect the new rates on the Ist instant, At the Empress Dowager's Dragon Festival Reception to ths Julies of the tions, which was "Notes" to have ious foreign Lega-these on the Leth inst the of the Dragon, it is now ing that no less than lies a tented, comand) daughters of rt lies of the Japanese Legation dit rat, however, attend, owing to the outbreak of chueta' in' the Japanese Lega'ion barracks, which had resulted fatally to some of the inmates,
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