The unbroken sories of Japanese victories over Russia in Manchuria, in which Japan's artillery played the most conspicuous part, have naturally influenced Chinese officials in charge of the Government arsenals and powdorworks in this country, and we loam that Wei Taotai, the manager of the Kiangnan Arsenal here, superintended on Monday the firing of several nowly-cast twelve-pounder field guns, after.tho Intest Japanese. model, We hear that the gun trials were. most successful, rapidity. in working and accuracy in fico obtained without a hitch. There is also a, report thut: tho Smokeless Powderworks, nour the Lung-, Ima Pagoda, have already begun, or will soon begin, the manufacture of a kind of gunpowder very similar to the Shimose powder of the Jupanese, IL. E. Tang Shao-yi, Special Commissioner to 'Tibet, according to n Hongkong letter, arrived there from Calcutta by. the Indo-China steamer Lienshing on the afternoon of the 16th instant. "Being on the sick list there' was no official display of any sort, the Dragon flag, by request of the Special Commissioner, not being displayed by the Captain at the fore when the Lienshing onterud Hongkong, as is usually the custom in such cases, nor Were any callers received. On the same evening his Excellency and his suite loft by the steamer Hankow for Canton, where a short stay will be made to recover from the fatigues of the hot weather experienced in India. - After short sojourn there his Excellency will come up to Shanghai, possibly by one of the China Merchants! steamer For Military Needs, Owing to the lack of funds in the provincial exchequer for the reorganisation of the military forces of Honen province, in accordance with the scheme of the Army Reorganisation Council of Peking, the Governor of that. province, H.E. Chen Kuei-lung, has received the sanction of the Board of Revenue to raise the price of salt in Honan, the extra
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