A Wuchang dispatch states that through the exertions of the Belgian Consul at Hankow, H.E. Tuan Fang, Governor of Hupeh and Acting Viceroy of the Hukuxng provinces, has decided to send to Brussels about thirty young men, selected for their intelligence and ability from the various Western Learning schools in Wuchang and Hanyang, to obtain a technical and scientific education in that countr. This is indeed a step in the right direction, and proves H.E. Governor Tuan Fang to be the able statesman he is.
German Consular Jurisdiction.
Ching has Teen notified by the German According t" a Peking dispatch. Prince Minister that the German Government has decided to appoint a Consul to reside in the port of Ichang, Hupeh province, who is to have charge of German interests in the three prefectures of Ichang, Chingchou, and Shibnan, in Hupeh province, us well as the whole of Szechuan province, duties hitherto taken charge of by the German Consul at Hankow. Further, that with regard to the establishment of " Germen Consulate in Nanking, the elfic will in future have charge of. Ger terests in Kiangning prefecture (Nat and in the provinces of Anhui and Kiangsi, duties hitherto discharged by the German -Consul-t3eneral stationed at Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.