According to the native proas the proposal which the Chibli Viceroy formerly made as to regaining control of the Kaiping Coal Mines and the raising of a loan for this parpose has recently met with s favorable reception. The Manager, Mr. Chang, has now presented memorial to the Throne ostensibly setting forth a procedure to this end, requesting that the Board concerned give recognition to the contract under which the mine was banded over to the present management with a view to devising means of regaining control of it, The provincial official ables i arrangement is pi out of a desire to conceal the fault that was originally committed in selling the mine. A high Metropolitan official named Liu has accordingly taken the lead in presenting s joint statement to the Censorate denouncing Chang. The protesters have also obtained, printed and published the original contract which Chang Thi explains the states of th the Inst ten years, El presented farther memorial of very gth on the same sabjvct, severely the statement made by Lin and still maintaining that recognition of I contract is an indispensable necessity, stating moreover that the pation will not be involved in a larg from custody.
Ti The expenditare, in order to regain control abject of of the mine aod can thereafter enjoy directions from the Shaoghai Taotai to enormous profite without forcher eff the Mixed Court Magistrate, ordering him to be brought before the Cart and compelled to make payment of the onto standing notes of the Shin Yuen Book ing at 7 o'clock two persons entered the House of Detention for the parpose of visiting Chou, and tated, however, la the n organs that the high authorities perceived the alterior motives have prompted this proposal, and strongly condemn the attitude of Obang who has apparently taken all these pains to no end.
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