Canton dispatch reports that word has been received from Kaochou, Kuangtung province, that a French R. C. priest residing in that vicinity was lately visited by a band of brigands, who robbed him of s quantity of money, but did not maltreat him in any other way.
Chang Yen-mao, of Kaiping mines notoriety, on account of which, it will be remembered, he was deprived of his rank of brevet Vice-President of one of the Six Boards of Peking and other titles has, according to a Poking letter, been working hard to return to official life once more. He has, it seems, succeeded through the influence of his patron, Prince Chun, th Emperor's brother—Chang Yen-mi family are hereditary slaves of Prince Chun's House—in getting the brevet button of the third grade (light. blue), and it is stated has received a promise which will enable him to enter the secretariat of the Shangpu early next spring.
E. Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy-designate of the Liangkiang' provinces, left Chinan, Shantung, for Nanking yesterday. The objection to his appointment to rule over his native province of Anhui has, we hear, been overcome by the fact that it is merely on an acting tenure (which officially means for one year) in the same way that H. Tson was appointed to the actin, Viceroyship of Kuangtung and Kuangsi, though a native of Kuangsi. Nothing like precedent.
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