26th June.
The Chinese Minister to Japan.
Ts'ai Chun, as already known to many of our readers, has never been popular amongst his countrymen while in Japan, and now it is reported in local mandarin circles that a special order of recall has been sent to Tokio relieving His Excellency of the Ministership and appointing Yang Oh'u, an expectant Taotai of Kuangtung, to that post.
The Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
A Peking dispatch to hand states that the Empress Dowayer has signed n Rescript dated Lith instant, granting Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca. full permission to construct the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, provided work on it be commenced within one year of the above date. Five years is to be the limit for completing the new line, while Shéag Kung-pao is to be Director-General of it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.