A Peking dispatch states that the Mini of the Interior has obtained Permission from the Throne to take a Census of the inhabitants of the whole Empire. The Viceroys and Governors of provinces have been instructed on the matter.
THE TATSU MARU EASE, ELE. Chang Jen-chun, Viceroy of Canton, in reply to a telegram from the Waiwapu asking him to release the Tateu Mara, has stated that the vessel cannot be discharged because her cargo was really consigned to Chinese revolutionaries. It is reported that his Excellency has sent Captain Wu Ching-yung, of the Revenue Cruiser Paopih, which seized the Japanese steamer, to Peking in order to relate personally to the Waiwupu the facts of the case.
March 11.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.