'A Nanking dispatch reports that Viceroy Liu has ben corresponding with other brother Viceroys throughout the Kmpire asking them what steps they in-teil to take with regard to the Imperial edict oniering the abolition or amalgam: tion of the posts of sub-prefect, departmental and assistant and deputy-assistant magistracies under their several jurisdictions. No replies have as yet been received by Viceroy Liu, but so far as can be judged from the present attitude of the Empress Dowager's Government the "reform" ordered can only be in a substitution of names.
A Magistrate removed.
'A Nanchang, capital f Kiangsi, dispatch reports that about three weeks ago {wo foreigners happening to travel in the district of Futuhsion, Kanchou prefec~ ture, in that nrovinee, were cursed and stoned by a mob, This was reported by the foreigners' Consul at Kiukiang to Governor Li Hsing-jui at Nanchang who, upon finding that there had actually been stich an attack on foreigners, at ome removed the district magistrate, Ho Wén-Kuang, for having failed in his duty of ing proper protection to foreigners travelling in his juri An enquiry is to be held into the matter, two offiria!s, Chu Chin and Hsii Pao-lien, having been sent to Futuhsien for the purpose.
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