A Hangchow dispatch states that there i" a rumour in mandarin circles of that. city native priest, named Chu. was killed by a mob a short time ago—has repeatedly complained to the Waiwupu about the "incapability of Governor Nich. The latter, however, having been satisfied through careful investigation that there had been extreme provocation, thereby causing the meute, considers that he has only done hu in the matter wing regard to the dignity and sovereign lits of the Empire—and therefore declines to proceed to extremities. Should the Central Government insist, the only course for Governor Nieh would be to resign his the notorious favourite eunuch of the Empress Dowager. has been suffering from intermittent fever. It is stated that the Empress Dowager was so anxious about her favourite that she sent several members of the Imperial College of Physicians to diagnose the sickness of the eunuch. The physicians having examined Li Lien-ying then came to make their report to her jesty, who asked each of them whether y danger. On getting a reply ise the Empress Dowager made the physicians draw up a bond guarantee ing Li Lien-ying from death through his present sickness. This eunuch is now about. sixty-three years old.
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