A Poking dispatch reports th a syndicate composed alnest irely of wealth; salt monopolists. of Chihli. province I recently petitioned the Head Office of the Department of Railways and. Mines to allow them to develop. posits said to exist in. Chionanhsien, Yungping prefecture. It is further stated that this being purely a native concern the Department will very: likely place no oh: structions in the way and" grant the ro quired permit to the syndicate. h of the Chinkiang Taotai.
A Chinkiang dispatch reports the death on the inst. of the Chin Cleang H 1 illness of a fort: night." Ci as our old Taotai, Teri Eh or in 1897, when the latter left the Chinkiang post. for this por, and had For quite t terms or six years. deceased wa the point of resign Taotaiship in order to have an audience of the Throne with the object of procuring promotion as Judye of some province.
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