A Peking dispatch states that H.E. Wang Kai-kah, Chinese Vice-Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, has telegraphed from the United States to the Waiwupu to the effect that the builds ordered to be erected in the Exposition grounds for the display of Chinese exhibits are on the point of completion and asking the Waiwupu to inform the Viceroys and Governors of provinees to send on. without delay the goods intended for exhibition. The dispatch further states that Prince Pu Lun, the Chinese Chief Commissioner to St. Louis, is expected to leave Peking for the States vii Shanghai in the last week of the present' month of December, accompanied by a large staff, including several Manchus of noble birth. Th Prince expects to spend a few days in Shanghai before starting for the United States.
Proposed Restoration of Old Custom Houses in Hangchow.
It was reported in mandarin circles yesterday that the Manchu Commissioner of the Imperial Silklooms at Hangchow has snomorialised the Throne that in view of the proposed abolition of Likin ho suggests that. two Custom houses which were in existence at the Northern and Southern suburbs of Hangchow before the capture of that city by the Taiping rebels (1860) and until now nonexistent, be restored, as a means of supplying the local government of the city with funds threatened with extinction by the abolition of Likin.
Arrival of the New Tartar General of Nanking.
H.E, Yung Lung, Tartar General-designate of' Nanking (Kiangning), arrived here yesterday fom Peking, on route for his new post. H.E. and family are at present residing in a Chinese hotel on the comer of Kiangsi Road and the Yangkingpang.
Th Or isis.
'A Peking telegram reports that owing to the more determined stand taken vy the Chinese Government in regard to the Manchurian Question, the Russians at Meoukden have resumed their highhanded manner of deaing with the Chinese officials there, which a short time 0 had been much relaxed. The Tartar General Tseng Chi, it is now reported, is again circumscribed as to his liberty of action and has been refused again the use of the telegraph. In consequence of this the Peking Government has not been able for the past two days to hear from Tseng Chi, although he has been repeatedly asked to telegraph.
21st December.
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