A dispatch from Ch'éngtu, the capital of Szechuan province, reports that H. EH. Hsi Liang, Viceroy of the province, sud-@only became Ill on the 20th instant with an attack of hemorrhage which was at first thought to be serious, but fortunately his Excellency pulled round and on -the 23rd instant was pronounced by the foreign physician who attended upon him to be out of danger.—The same dispatch states Huang Cheng-hsuan (formerly a Magistrate of Shanghai), Salt Taotai of Szechu has been made Act Provincial Judge, vice Feng Ush, promoted to be Provincial Treasuer, elsewhere The Revenue, and Tuan Fang, substantive Salt Taotaiship hax therefore been given by the Vice ey temporarily to Shen Yulan, Taotai of the Mien-Lung Intendency, which post, again, is giv interim to Ho ati of Chungking, Fengshui" again."
A Wuchang, en pital of Hupeh province, dispatch, stales that news has been received from the district of Tsungyanghsien in the same province, that when the gentry of that city, under the advice of a mining engineer, who had received his education abroad, attempted the other day to start work in certain rich copper deposits at a place called tangshan, about tea miles distant from Tsungyanghsien, the villagers round about suddenly raised unexpected opposition against any proposed disfiguration their hill, on the ground that the " feng-shui" of the countryside would be wreeked by it, and untold miseries would certainly overwhelm the inhabitants if they allowed the hill to be tampered with The opposition of the villagers, it is stated, was' so determined and minatory, that the gentry concerned, although all mon of substance and greatly respected by their fellow citizens, could do nothing against the popular opposition, and so work, it is reported, on the deposits has had to be postponed sine dio.
The Chekiang Governorship.
A Poking letter reports that owing to the many recent denunciatory memorials against H.E. Nieh Chih-kuei, Governor of Chekiang province, there is a strong effort being made in the capital to get that most unpopular ox-Governor of Kianghuai, Eu Shou, appointed in Governor Nieh's place. The letter also states that BLE. Yang Cheng, whose place at Vienna is to be taken by H.E. Li Ching-mai, sevend son of the Into Li Hung-chang, is to be appointed to Berlin to tuke H.E, General Yin Chang's aco, the last named's period of three years as Chinese Minister to Germany having already expired.
26th September. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
According to a telegram published in the " Eastern Times" (" Shihpao"), their Excellencies Viceroy Chen Fu of Nav-king, and Lu, Yuan-ting, of Soochow, have received telegraphic instructions from the Throne to "confer together as to the best methods for purchasing the foreign portion of the capital in the Shanghai-Nanking Railway."
Proposed Associate Members of virvector-Generalship of the Luhan Railway.
The same puper states that with regard to the recent Imperial instruction 8 lo the Shangpu to confer with Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai as to the selection of a hich ofici-] for the post of Assnciate Director General of the wuhan Railway, with headers.in Peking. the Shangpu wishes to appoint°H. E, Sheng Ch'i-beng, the Provincial Treasurer of Shantung, to the post, while Viceroy Yuan Shih-leal is mansions to give the billet to H.. Tang Shao-yi, who is still in India but. shortly expected to return to China, The final choice will very probably be left to the Throne which is justos much as to say that Viceroy Yuan's nominee will be appointed.
ILE, General Yin Ch'ang, whose term as Chinese Minister to the Court of Berlin has just expired, according to a Peking dispatch, will be appointed on his return to. the Capital to a high position in the Army Reorganisation
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