According to a Northern yernac paper Yen Taotai, second son of H.E. Shou, acting Viceroy of the To Kuang provinces, has obtained the permission of the Department of State Affairs to start a Waterworks Company to supply pure water for the residents of Peking.
The Peking-Eho Park Rail The same paper states that Vicer Yuan Shih-Kai has been commanded to take steps as soon as possible to construct a short railway connecting Peking with Bho Park Palace for the convenience of the Empress Dowager and her Ministers.
30th December, Phe Kangtze Defences.
Whatever may be in the air for the future one thing seems to be certain: the high provincial authorities along the Yangtze have been of late unusually active in inspecting the river defences of their several jurisdictions, as if there were [fears of an' attack from the seaward. Dispatches from the provincial capitals of Hupeh, Kiangsi, Anhui, and Biaugsw, lately received here, all report-that mo-2 or less high officers accompanied military experts have been quietly
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