In addition to the ten-cash or one cent pieces that have been recently struck at Nanking and Soochow and made part 0 the copper currency of this province, a Soochow dispatch states that the provincial authorities have further struck a quantity of five-cash or half-cent pieces which were put into circulation the other day in Soochow. The new half-cent pices were struck in compliance with the desire of the small cash exchange shops of Soochow who gave it as their opinion that the masses of Kiangsu province required smaller in value than the cent piece as their ordinary medium of purchase and sale.
The Governor of Shantung, BLE. Chang Jen-chun, whose presence at Chinan has been, for various reasons, objected to by the German authorities at Tsingtao, it has been decided, writes a Pe-King dispatch, will he removed to some other place and a new Governor appointed to the province. The delay that has so far elapsed in the departure of H.E. Chang has been due not xo much because the Central Government wish him to remain at Chinan but really owing to the difficulty that has inexpectedly risen selecting the proper man to take H-E.'s one who possesses sufficient tact strength of character to deal h his German neighbours on the sea coast.
The New Commercial Treaty.
It ly stated by the " Universal Gazett-~ that H.E. Sheng Kung-pao has embodied his negotiations with regard tothe proposed new Tariff and Commercial Treaty under twenty-four heads and sent them to all the Viceroys and Governors of the Expire asking for their opinion and suggestions thereanent. The principal point for discussion, it is further stated, reference to the abolition of Li interior.
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