Sth May.
Hung Chien-Yuan, Provincial Judge-designate of Hunan, who is at present assisting Sheng Kungpao in the Tariff negotiations, and whom it may be remembered was ordered by special Imperial decree to leave Shanghai and go up to Peking for audience, and thence to his new post at Changsha, has been ordered again to make no more' delay in obeying the Imperial Command. The efforts of both Sheng Kungpao and Lit Hai-huan to retain Huang ' linen-yuan in Shanghai, as already noted in these columns, appear, therefore to have been abortive, The Budchist Devotees of Shanghai.
The birthday anniversary of the Ki the Eastern Hades—"Tung celebrated at his infernal Majesty's temple Chiavgwan, on the Sth instant, was a gala day for Buddhist devotees of Shanghai, jas was evidenced by a letter courteous: ly sent this otice by the oiticials of the Sung-wa Railway, It appears that the trains of this line commenced running at 7.15 on the morning of that day, and ran about every half hour between Hongkew {and Chiangwan up to 9.44 pan., carrying a total of 17,000 passengers.
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