General Obang Benn, High Inspector of the Yangtze provinces, celebrated sist birthday which fell on the Chinese 25th day of the lith moon, or December 11, at Heuchow. A number of celebrated actors of Peking went there to pay him their homage and congratulations. The carriages on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway were crowded for some days not a few officials being seen hurrying from the north to pay their respects to the famous general, who issued a large number of free tickets for first class passengers on that railway.
The Deepening of the Huangpu.
Some time ago, the Prefect of Shanghai received an order from the Governor of Kiangsu and the Director of the Irrigation Office, instructing him to collect a surtax, when be collected the land and rice taxes, in connexion with the deepening of the Woosung River and other waterways in the three prefectures of Soochow, Sungkiang and Taitsang. The reason for levying this surtax on agriculturists is obvious, as their fields will derive much benefit from good system of irrigation.
Now, the local gentry and the village headmen have submitted their views to the effect that the Robbers in Shanghai, In connexion with armed robberies in Shanghai the Consular Body has submitted the following rules of procedure to the Diplomatic Body in Peking 1. Persons having committed robberies within the Settlement shall be handed over to the Chinese authorities as soon as they have been captured and found guilty by the Mixed Court.
2. Armed robbers in the Settlement shall be handed over to the Military Governor for execution according to martial law.
3. The sentence of death shall be passed as soon as the prisoners handed over have confirmed the statement, which they have made at the Mixed Court, before the Chinese authorities.
4. The Police shall be ratified of any execution two days in advance.
5. The Police will send detectives to witness and take a photograph of the execution, which shall be hung up at the Police Station with a view to striking terror into the bosom of robbers.
Whart Hands and their Wages.
Under the time-honoured pretest of the high cost of living here, coupled with the exorbitant, or at least arbitrary, advance in price on many daily necessaries by storekeepers as a result of the war, the
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