A Tien'sin dispatch reporting the arrival at that port fromPaoting on the 27th ult., of TE. Wu Ch'ung-hsi, Provincial Treasurer of Chihli, to consult Viceroy Yuan with ref-rence to the suppression of the Boxer unrest in that province, and other matters of importance, further states that Vicerny Yuan too' the opportunity of once more asking the Throne for leave of absence t" return ty his native city in Honan provines, a feeling which has now culminated to_an intense longing, better described as a feeling of homesick voss. This is, perhaps, quit" natural, for His Excellency has not visited the scenes of his childhood and the homes of his ancestors for many a long year. His Excellency's plea is however, the desire to perform the filial duty of personally seeing to the final placing of his stepmother's coffin under the sod her remains, ever since their arrival at the ancestral city, being placed for the time being in a temple in the neighbourhood. For, as is the custom amongs' the gentry and wealthy clissrs of China, they generally place the coffins of loved and honoured ones in a temple, family mausoleum, or ancestral hall, for the space of a year or more, and having selected the lucky date finally place them unter the sid idly-made and enduring receptacle sot xr nite, with foundations made of sand, mortar, and pounded "gluey" rice in some spected si" in the ancestral burial zround. As Viceroy Yuan s family is' comparatively speak: one, the fortunes of the family having with his aber, Yuan Chili-shan, at one time Governor '+f Shansi, there had wen a properly built ancestral hall temple until the present one, which has been constructed by Viceroy' Yua self, This he wishes now apparently to be consecrated before his presence. When Treasurer Wa, therefor-, arrived at tientsin. on the 37th ultimo Vicery Yun at once proposed "w the Throne that the Treasurer should take his p'ace pro tem. while he (Yuan) reu ned to Honan to full his G ial duties; but so far no reply has as received from Peking.
Piracy near Lunghua Pagoda.
On Friday night as ove of the regular ive passenger boats plying between Shanghai and Sungkiang was passing the Lunghua Pagoda bend, bound for the latter city, was met by a pirate boat carrying a crew of about ten armed ruffians who stopped the passenger boat and began searching the craft. The pirates evidently knew whut they were about, for their leader male str asortof -uph of the oth drew out therefrom some eleven diary belonging to a cotton dealer, stter a profable s-lo of his esso inj hyonghai was returning with his mme ty home in the market town of Luchiawan. The pirates then 1ausacked the luggage of the passengers—there were over a dozen of them—and after transferring to their boat all that wi ening to retura "ud deal out instant ath to any one attempting to raise an larin while they (the pirates) were in igh", As the scene of the piracy was a very lonely spot there was not much chance of @ rescue even if the people on the Pwseng-r boat did attempt to call out, which they dared not do.
The Author of the Chuchou Massacres in 1900, Pao, Taotai of Chuchou, Chekiang province, who, it will be remembered, was sentenced to be banished, has, it is reported, lied, after a lingering illness, while on his way to his place of exile. Pav was Baron in rank and possessed the title from his father, the late famous Chinese general Pao Ts'ao, protege of the still note famous first Marquis Tsénz, and one of the most successful military is who opposed the Taiping rebels and so saved the present Manchu dynasty from annihila flow at the hands of the Taipings.
The New Taotai of Ningpo, Hui Sen (Manchu), arrived here on Saturday, from Hangchow where his honour had been to report for duty to the Governor of Chékiany, H.E. Jen Tao-yang. Tio Taotai designate of Ningpo was fora erly a Metropolitan Officer connected hone of the Six Boards and was only
st ts for his post in a day or two.
tly appointed. to the provinees. He The Goveravr-designate of Shansi, H.E. Ting Chen-t", who it will, perhaps, be remembered was transferred from Kusngsi to -uccevd H.E. sin Ch'un-hsien, promoted Viceroy of Szechuan, arrived at Wuchang on the 2nd ins'.en route for his new pst at Taiyuan, Guyernoe Ting continues his journey, proceeding overland to Shinsi some time this week.
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