As may be p-received by the Imperial decree telegraphed from Peking appearing im this column this morning, pension has been granted LIB. tao Mu, the enlightened -nd able Viceroy of the Two Kua'y—Kuangtung snd Kuangsi—provines, foresign his post on the plea of chronic ill health. According to present oficial reports the conservative Viceroy of Yunnan and Kueichou—
[be the nex: incumbent of the' Vicerezal poveinoes, Wal ao, may perla; yanéu at Canton.
The R. C. Claims in Taiyuan, according to a dispatch from that city, have at Ist been settled by the payment of ancther Tls. 21,000 by the hines+ authorities tothe R. C. mission, te rebui d their church and hous-s in Taiyuan that had been destroyed by the Bosers in 1900. Te appears that upon the suppression of the Bosers that year, the R. C. priests were quartered in the Chinese Lingt@ 'T'ang Co'lege, Taiyuan, which, it is reported, the Chinese authori ies had some difficulty, subsequently, in getting back. But by payment of the above mentioned Tls. 20,000 the R. C. priests have consented to uive up the place which is to bz turned into a college of Wes'ora Learning by the authorities.
The Grand Trunk Railroad between Peking and Canton.
Sheng Kung-pro will very probably The pUaiversal gazette" learns that ceed t Week i Sheng si not, however, refer to. tha question, but to consult Chang Chih-tung about certs affecting the Lu-Han (Peking Lis and the Yueh-Han (Canton-Hankow) Railways, Apropos of Sheng Ki 5 with the other Tariff Commissioners, to Nanking, it was rumoured yesterday li Jocal mandarin circles that it is feared the success of the interview leroy Lit be most doubtful.
5th July.
Cholera in the "Forbidden City."
It is reported from Peking that ch has also entered the Forbidden city, in consequence of which quite " number of eunuchs and female attendants in the polices have recently succumbd to the dread disease. 'The members of the Im-College of Physicians have, there-found their hands quite full lately, not only in prescribing for sutlerers in' the palaces, Init also" in preparing daily thaushts of preventive medicines for their Majesties te Emperor, Empress and Empress Dowager.
"The Paoting Government Gazette."
This is to he the name of a Chinese newspaper to be published in the capital of Chitl, province next month, under the auspices ant authority of Yuan Shih-kai, Viceroy of same. In dai the publication of the " Paotins ment Gazette" it is intended to for, and keep on file the principal newspapers and periodicals of China, Japan, the Great. Powers of Furope and the United States, and for this burp-se Viceroy Yuan has placed to the credit of the Manaying Director of the Gazette," to start the scheme, the sum of Tls. 100,000. A certain portion of this sum is to be used in purchasing the necessary machinery and printing presses, allot which are to be of the most modern tyre. The balance is to be placed at into t which will be used to make good any shorten-s of funds that may reasonably arise at the beginning of such an enterprise Furthermore, as an additional guarantee of the lon; the scheme, the provin apportion a certain annual sum to assist it unfit such time as the paper and its adjuncts may he male self-paying. Book and jab prin it is stated, als" to made a speds the concern, and if only the proper meu be engaged by Viceroy Yuan there should be every chance for success of the new undertaking.
A Proposed: Branch-line.
According to a Northern vermicular Faglish capitalists are revere ut ying to obtain from Joverumteut permission to cons met betivven Peking and provincial capital of i, much to the satisfaction of Chines"
trading between the two points, who hewd of the affair, anda large number of officials whose duties make them travel frequently between Peking, Tients'n and Paoting. There is, however, a fear that obstrue: ion may be placed in the way of the scheme, owing to the reported jealousy of the foreigners who have the construction of the Lu-Han Railway in hand. ith July. Travelling by Boat between Tientsin and Paoting, writes a correspondent in the latter city, has lately been a most ditiicult task owing to the prevalence of banditti infesting the intervening country. Four different parties of merehants, personally known to our correspond ent, were successively plundered in their boats, within two or three days' of each other, when tied up for the night in the vicinity ages and market towns, by disguised either as patrolman' or "runners," who cleared their victims' boats of everything portable, even to the oars and poles of the boats, thereby preventing pursuit if so intended.
A Grand Reunion, of Chinese students studying in Japan took lace on the 4th instant at Tokio, having een invited to meet Mr. Wu Ju-lun, Hanlin cademist and Head Professor of Chinese Literature in the Peking University. Mr. Wu had recently arrived in Tokio from Peking to visit the various institutions of learning in Japan and take notes regarding them for the future guidance of those in authority in the Peking University. Altogether over 600 young Chinese were resent, and Mr. Wu was welcomed most heartily by them. 3
For the Entertainment of Foreign Ladies.
A Northern vernacular paper states that the Empress Dowager does not think the palaces in the "Forbidden City" grand or spacious enough for the foreign Indy guests from the Legations, and has, therefore, recently ordered the Foord of Revenue to provide Tls. 200,000 for repairing Yuenmingyten Palace where she intends to hold luxuriously appointed railway will also be her future receptions. iwonpeld 'a. short, constructed for the conveyance of the Empress Dowager herself and her guests between Peking and the so-called Summer Palace.
Sth June, On Cutting the Queue in Foreign Countries.
The "Shuntien Shibpao," a vernacular paper published in Peking, states that with reference to a recent dispatch of H.E. Wu Ting-fang, Chinese Minister at Washington, informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the effect that Chinese students in the United States have begun cutting off their queues and assuming foreign clothes in liew of their own, the wiseacres at the Foreign Office have replied that Chinese students abroad may, on the ground of expediency, temporarily' put on foreign costumes, but the fact of their cutting off their badge of national distinction, the queue—really the hadge of bondage" inflicted by the Manchu conquerors on the Chinese—is an infringement of the laws of the Manchu dynasty, for which reason H.E. Wu Ting-fang has been instructed to give due warning to the delinquent students in question.
result the students have been.ordered
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.