Commercial Trexty, arranged in 1903 between the Chinese and German Treaty Commissioners here, having proved, unsatisfactory to the Central Government at Peking and therefore hitherto unratified will, according to a Peking correspondent, be discussed over again here as soon as Sheng Kung-pao returns from the capital in his capacity of Trade Commissioner, representing. the Shangpu in this portion of the Empire To make sure that there will be.no more cases of misunderstanding through ignorance of the technique of the German language the Chinese Treaty Commissioners are to have the assistance in the coming do-liberations of some returned students from Germany.
Where the Blame lies.
It is reported in local mandarin circles that the surviving inhabitants of Paoshan (Woosung) district and vicinity lay the blame of the catastrophe suffered by them through the Yecent typhoon, upon the official through whose efforts the Woosung forts were dismantled six or seven yours ago, one result of which was the laying of a..'*Maloo" in the district, 80 that the high, substantial dyke or wall which had protected the vicinity from the ravages of wind and wave for generations was lowered over three (Chi-nose) feot. This lack of foresight has had fatal consequences, and in their indignation against the author of the suilorings it is stated that, while on the one hand a petition has been presented to the Shanghai Tootal asking that the old dyke or sea wall be restored without delay to its original height, on the other hand petitions are being drawn up—one report is that they have already been sent-for dispatch to the Viceroy at Nanking, the Governor at Soochow, and to a certain high and influential Minister in Peking, in which several charges have been made against the official in question in connection with which a number of transactions which ocourred during his regime at Woosung, have also been resurrected.
A School for daughters of princes, nobles, and high Ministers of State. has been sanctioned by the Empress Dowager in response to the earnest recommendations of -their Excellencies Chang Pei-hsi, Minister of Education and President of the Board of Governor of Hunan province and one of the five Imperial High Commissioners going abroad.
A Japanese Mining Expert in Kiangsi.
A Nanch'ang, capital of Kiangsi pro-vinea, dispatch reports the arrival in that city of a Japanese mining engineer who has been specially engaged by Viceroy Chou Fu to report on the mineral deposits of the districts of Yieh'an and Pinghsiang (in Yuanchou sub-prefecture); Hsinyii and Chiachiang (in Lingehiang prefecture); Loping and Yiikan (in Jaochou prefecture); and Ch'ienshan and Kuangféng (in Kuangsing prefecture). On receipt of the mining expert's report the Chinese authorities of Kiangsi provine will begin the work of development without delay on the deposits which have the fairest chances of giving profitable outputs, the others Lo wait until there are more funds.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.