It is reported from Peking that a proposal has been made to the Th to abolish the Kiangpeh Commandership-in-Chief and to transfer the headquarters of the Governor of this pro-additional duties on cigarettes to increase the Imperial revenues. The memorial was handed to the Commissioner General of Customs and the Ministry of Finance for report, with the result that it is argued that, as vince of Kiangsu from to there is to be no revision of the Tariff Tringkiangpu, instead. This step treaties yet awhile, the proposal is would reduce the provincial expenses premature, since the duty on cigarettes by several hundred thousand taels per pee flteady been fixed by the said snpum.
H. B. LIANG JU-HAO, now Chief Councillor to the Manchorian Viceroyalty will probably be transferred to take up a similar post in Chibli province, at the urgent request of Viceroy Yang Shih-hsiang of Tientsin, who has presented special memorial to the Throne on the subject. His Excellency will be remembered as our late Taotai,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.