A meeting of the Consular Body has been called for to-day to discuss the question of the conservancy of the Huangpu River. In this connection it will be remembered Mr.
John Goodnow (U. S. Consul-General and Senior Consul) and Mr. D. Sieffert (Consul-General for Belgium) recently visited the Viceroy at Nanking.
We understand from Chinese sources that various suggestions from the Viceroy have been placed before the Consuls and the memorandum is to be under discussion today. The following is a translation of Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao's memorandum The Senior Consul is requested to con sider the following suggestions with the Consular Body asking them to approve of the same so that the conservancy work may be taken in hand at an early date:—1.—China, feeling uneasy at being unable to entertain the merchantmen of the various great countries paying dues and at the foreign merchants resident in China making contributions towards the cost of conserving the Whangpu, is prepared to appropriate Tls. 230,000 of the Customs Revenue annually and to devote another Tls. 230,000 in lien of the amount which the foreign merchants are prepared to subscribe, or to appropriate in all Tls. 460,000 annually for the purpose of the Whangpu River Conservancy until the work is completed.
2.—The works of the Whangpu River shall be still controlled by the Shanghai Taotai and the Customs and the administration of and other powers in connection with, the river, lighthouses, ete., be still in char; of the Customs authorities.
—In regard to these proposed measures China hereby promises or undertakes to ask the various countries, after three months, to conjointly recommend and nominate one or two officers versed in conservancy works to manage the work in question.
4.—A statement of the expenses of the work shall be made out for the examination of the Shanghai Consular Body once every three months.
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'The memorable fortnight spent in Tientsin by the Dallas Company was not only full of enjoyment for themselves and their audiences, but it has pulled the members together.' They reopened on Saturday night for their four-night second season at the Lyceum to a house full in every part, and their entertainment was as good as any' they have given us. It may not be exactly like the original " Kitty Grey; " not having had the opportunity of seeing that charming and volatile young lady in London we cannot sny. But the four scenes presented on Saturday Yyave us an interesting little play with quite an elaborate plot; half a score of the songs that burnt one afterwards; some excellent fooling; dancing graceful and whimsical; and some genuine acting. Unlike most musical comedies "Kitty Grey" hag a strain of pathos in it, and it gains in dignity thereby. It is mot a haphazard music-hall show, but a play.
As it was the firist time of production in Shanghai, the plot be outlined. Sir John Binfield, wealthy, high-sprited and a Member of Parliament, has a gentle young wife, who would be all that is charming but for a tendency to otherworldliness, which leads her into eccentricities. The dis appointed husband finds relief in an infatuation for Kitty Grey, a bright star of the theatres, who has, however, been won to ruther more than ordinary admiration for Sir John, The Baronet and his wife are at Biarritz, the former bored to death. He makes an excuse to return alone to London Lady Binfield discovers the deception and follows him broken-beltedly. She determines to seek out Kitty and ask her ity and help, and thus it happens she is behind a screen in the actress's dressing room and a witness of the wiles by which her rival has fascinated her husband. There is the usual borrowing of the actress's costume and the determination to play the part of the enchantress, which after a series of episodes, well-worked out, bring about a quite satisfactory issue. The plot is complicated by the adventures in London of the King of Illyria, a gay continental monarch travelling incognito and enjoying himself immensely, and by the madly hilarious career of Lord Plantagenet, a sprig of nobility endowed after his kind with wit rather than wisdom, Phe most aioticeable feature of the production here is that it brings out the talents of two members of the company, who have neither hitherto shown us of their best. Lady Binfield, Miss Ernestine Walter has a role to test the abilities of any actress; whether it was the grave sweetness of the first act, the shy experimenting in coquetzy of the second act, or the new-found womanliness of the last, she struck firmly and truly the note required. The part has some charming songs and_duets, and Miss Walter was in voice
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