20th April.
Increasing the Permanent Staff.
A Peking dispatch states that awins bt" the great pressure of international work in the Waiwupu that Board has increased its permanent staff of translators and interproters by six. men. Of thin number he English and German one each for French and The original staff of interpreters uunitioted nine in all.
The Ex-Director of the Kaiping Mines.
In reply to a recent themorial of Viceroy' Yuan Shih kai asking what ho is to do in regard to Chang Yeo-mo in confection with the lutter's litigations in England the Throvie has commanded the Viceroy to keep "a strict separtision over that official and gee to it that he be compelled to recover the entire control of the mines in question from foreign management.
The Unfortunate Plight of the Peking University.
Surprise has often been' expressed lately as to the reason why, in view of the flourish of trumpets and high-sounding rhetoric which inaugurated the es ablishment of the Peking University, that institution has, 90 fr, made not the slightest progress; the reply may be rrepoudont Wier to hand ndcnely, that found in a the Oninene and Mancha Ohancollvce of the University, Chang Pei-hsi (President, of the Board of Givil Appointments) and Yang Oh'ing (President of. the Board of Revenue) have been bitter enemies ever the latter was, added to, the institaos Manchu Chancellor of the University. The former the latter because hisilliteracy does not fit him to be atthe head of an institution of learning, while the Intter, on the other pats ]on the garment of superiority beosus; he belongs to the conquering rac-. whenever' one introduces i University s nomitiee of his own to be a member of the faculty, orhesd of department, his rival Chancellor makes it a point either to
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