25th November.
The Arrival of the New Viceroy.
H.E. Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy-designate of the Liangkinng provinces, arrived here yesterday forenoon by the China Merchants' steamer Hsinchi from Tsingtao, and landed xt the Kinleeyuen Wharf, where he was welcomed by all the local and visi ing mandarins, "His Excellency atter granting a brief audience on board to the Eichard, drove. over to. the Bureat nicipal mandarins, and to Dr. Timothy of Foreign Affairs on the Bubbling Well Road, where apartments have beau Rai'Tvotai,- The now Viceroy is a native prepared for himself and suite by the Shang-of Hofei, province of Anhui, and belongs to the same town as the late Marquis Li Hung-chang of whom he is also a relation on the female side. H. E. Chou Fu is wearly seventy yours of age and a Heiuta'ai, or Licentiate in literary rank, Hie was for many yeara an expectant" Taotai of Chihli, and it was not until March 1882 that his relative and patron, the late Marquis, then Viorroy of Chibli and in the height of his power, consented to appoint him Customs Taotai of Tientain, con: idering the latter "too good-natured and mild" successfully to livid such an important post, Pressure however, on the part of other relatives and especially of the late Lady Li herself, who understood the stuff of which Chou Fu was made better than her spouse, finally obtained for him the post of the Customs Taotaiship of Tientsin, which formed the stepping stone 10 his future greatness, After holding that lucrative post for the fall period of three youre, his Excellency was appointed in 1886 Acting Salt Com: missioner of Ch'ang-Lu Circuit of Chihli and Honan provinces, and two years after was promoted to the Provincial Judgeship of Chibli. In 1895, after the war with Jupan, which almost proved the death-kwel of the late Li Hung-chang's official career, Chou Fu resigned his post, on the ground of chronic illness. Four years afterwards with the appointment of his stron 10 the Viceroyalty of the Two uang provinces, Chou Fu also returned to ofticinl life and was appointed Provincial Treasurer of Szechuan which, however, he did not hold long, for upon the execution of Ting Yung, the Provincial Treasurer of Chibli and Boxer partisan, by the Allies at Pacting, Chou Fu was appointed (November 1900) to succeed him, at the recommendation of Li Hut chang. Upon the death of his patron and the assumption of the Viceroyship of Chibli by Yao Bhih-kai, Chou Fu. was promoted in 1902 to succeed that official in the post he has just vacated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.