Two distinguished Chinese officials have arrived in Shanghai and will remain a_few days here. One is HE, Ké Pao-hua, Vice President of the Board of Revenue, who has come down from Hsian, vin Hsiangyang, Hupeh, on certain "official business," not divulged so far. It will be remembered that HE, was deputed Special High Commissioner to witness the suicide of Prince Tnan's Lieutenant General of Boxers, Prince Chuang, at Puchou, Shansi, where this notorious and sanguinary Boxer Chief had Jain in hiding after the fight of the Court last year. The other distinguished mandarin is our late Taotai, H.E. Yii Lien-yuan, now substantive Treasurer of Hunan pro-since and recently acting Governor of Che. Kiang. a post BLE. resigned only about a fortnight ago to his successor Jen Tao-yung, HE. Yii Lien-yuan is en route to Changsha to take up his post.
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