A letter from Chengtu, capital of Szechuan province, states that the two Taotais, Chao and Ts'ien, who were sent last summer atthe head of some troops to Pat'ang, Tibet, to suppress the rising there and punich the murderers of the late Assistant Resident of Tibet, Feng Chuan, have now returned to Chengtu, and in response to their suggestion H. E. Hsi Liang, Viceroy of Szechuan, has memorial ised the Throne asking that Pat'ang be organised into a hsien and placed under a chihhsion, or district magistrate, who is to be assisted by a police magistrate, or hsunchion. Should this be approved by the Throne, Innor Pat'ang, or Lit'ang, will also be organised under similar lines, This confirms our news of the other day that there is no likelihood of another province being created on the present Szechuan-Tibetan borders.
The Mixed Court.
Mr. King Shao-ch'éng has been appointed by the Shanghai Taotai Assistant Magistrate of the International Mixed Court. Mr. King who is the son of alate well-known silk merchant hero, has only Intoly returned from a three years' course of study in England, and should prove a useful colleague to Mr. Kuan Chun, 23rd November.
The New Educationin Kuangtung Province, 'A dispatch from Canton states that owing to the delay and dilatory methods of a largo number of officials in Kuangtung province in the establishment of schools of Western learning, in accord an with the commands of the Emperor, the Bureau of Education has recently been ponding a number of officials into the interior personally to supervise the starting of t! schools and to see that port of college: of the old regime be diverted to the u e new schools. A very sharp ci watch from the Bureau of Education has also been seat jolinquent and dilatory officials to make no more delay on pain of being denounced to the Throne, Taotai Wen Tsung-yao in Canton, One of the ablest of the officials of Kuangtung and the most trusted by H. Viceroy Tsen Ch'un-hsuan is Taotai Wan Jung-yao, Director of the Canton Bureau of Foreign Affairs and other imity. As soon reached Viceroy Tsen, his Excellency at once deputed Taotai Wen Tsung-yao to wostigato matters, and we understand has been mainly through that ingush and foreign coupled with his unfailing tact, energy, and courtesy that the negotiations regarding the lamentable affair have so far been conducted without a hitch, Taotai Wen is Viceroy Tsén's right-hand man and we are glad to learn that the form fluence with the latter has always been in the direction of right and justice. Mr. Wen Ts'ung-yao will be remembered by many of the foreign community of Shanghai as the able translator and interpreter of the Chinese Treaty Commissioners during the new Tariff negotiations in 1903 with Sir James Mackay, More Honours asked for.
'A Wuchang dispatch states that Vicoroy Chang Chih-tung recently memorialist ed the Throne eulogising the exceptional abilities of his English secretary, Mr. Ku-Hung-ming, wa, Univ. Edin, praying that in addition to a post in one of the Great Boards of Peking, Mr. Ku Hung-ming should be given the literary grade of Chinshih, or Doctor. Taking into account the abilities and linguistic talents of Mr. Ku Hung-ming, he really deserves a much higher and more responsible post in the Waiwupu than a class secretaryship.
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