21st May.
A Parliament consisting of all the Viceroys and Governors of provinces, to mest once a year to discuss matters relating to their various jurisdictions, with the object of obtaining unanimity of action throughout the Empire, has been recently recommended to the Throne in a joint memorial from Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai and Yung Ch'ing, a Manchu member of the Grand. Council and Ca-Chancellor of the Pe-King University. It is further proposed that this assembly of high provincial authorities shall be presided over by a Prince, assisted by two Imperial Commissioners, electtd by the Throne for the occasion. It has not yet transpired how the recommendation has been received by the Throne, Chang Yen-mao and the Kaiping Mines.
'A report comes from Tientsin to the effect that Chang Yen-mao and his difficulties regarding the Kaiping mines, which nearly cost him his rank and titles and personal property through the denunciations of Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, have been adjusted. It is further stated that in this connection a wealthy Tientsin banker named Yao came to the rescue of Chang Yen-mao.
Twenty Hunan Students en route for Japan arrived here yesterda: from Changsha, the capital of Hunan pro. vince, bound for a three-year course of studies and sent thither by Governor Chao Erhsén. After the completion of their studies these young men are to return to their native province to act as teachers in the various schools and colleges of Western learning now being started in all parte of Hunan.
The New Arsenal at Pinghsiang in Kiangsi_ province, according to Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's plan, is to be much larger than the Kiangnan Arsenal here and extra machinery is to be purchased for this purpose from abroad for the new Arsenal. In other words, the scheme is to make the Pinghsiang Arsenal capable in the near future of turning out twenty q.-f. Held gans a month, and an output of something like 200 rifles and 100,000 cartridges a day.
23rd May. "Sinews of War."
Taotai Chu Pao-fay, Go-Dizector of the He, E. Sheng Kung-pao, accompanied
Ning Railway (Shanghai-Nanking Reilway) arrived at Nanking on Thursday moming, the 19th inst., his object being, is said, to consult with Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao with reference to the completion of a foreign loan of 82,000,000 made by the Railway Company for the immediate construction of the first section of the line, that is to say, from Shanghai to Soochow. In connection with this i may be noted that the further surveying of the lino from Soochow to Chinkiang has not been proceeded with for the nonce.
"The Unruly Tibetans."
The above was the declaration of H. E. Vu Tai, the Chinese Imperial Resident at Lhassa, in a recent special memorial to the Throne appealing for miliary aid from the Government. It appears that Vu Tai complains that he has been unable to keep order amongst the Lamas and Tibetan soldiery, and declares that in spite of his threats of the wrath of the Great Chinese Emperor if they persisted in disobeying orders and attacked the British mission these "uncouth and unruly" mountaineers laugh him to scorn and open say that they intend to do a3 they please, Vu Tai therefore asks for at least 4,000 troops to reinforce the 1,000 men he has with him as a body-guard, The Extravagance of the El press Dowager.
reported from Peking that the ban-accessories" to the ladies of the foreign legations given by the Empress Dowager on the 10th inst., at Eho Park Palace cost Tls. 130,000, and that this sum does not include the value of the gold, pests, and precious stones given to the guests as presents, 24th May.
Chinese t" Reoccupy Newchwang.
A Mukden dispatch of the 14th inst. states that upon learning that the Russian troops at Newchwang were on the verge of abandoning that port, owing to the near vicinity of the Japanese forces and fleet, Tartar Generel Tseng Ch'i at once sent a dispatch to the expectant Taotai Chu Chih-chiao, commanding the Suiching brigade lately sent by Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai to hold the town of Tienchuangtai, to move that brigade to Newchwang and occupy the Place the moment the Russians leave it. As Tienchuangtai is only a few miles to the west of Newchwang i will not be difficult task for Commandant Chu and his Suiching brigade to march from the first-named to the last-named place and occupy
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