We have also had a change of prefect, Our late prefect was Kin-tiv, a Mohammedan. It was he, so we have understood, who with the invaluable aid o Mr. Price, established the splendid poli corps of Wuchang. Mr. Kin was Prefectural Middle School in regressive man. He established a good Your correspondent was given ti of figuring as architect, etc., for the larg Gymnasium on the premises. But Mr] Kin's time here was too short for hi to do any further good, as he must se to his purse first of all. Two mon wh followed him as secretaries were hi creditors to the amount of some tons of thousands. Thus he went to work t add heavily to the burden of the overtax: people. The proclamation, raising cortait taxes, which made him odiousto the peopl gave as motive the ever-lasting " foreig indemnity." Now to the Chinese of th interior where the only foreigner is th missionary, "we are the people," or i other words, we are the foreign county,
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