AFFAIRS, nia 20rd July. ILE. Li Ching-hsi, the newly-appointed Governor of Kuangsi province (a nephew of the late Earl], Li Hung-chang), according to a tole-graphic dispatch received by the local Mandarins, left his former post at Kueiyang, the capital of Kueichou province, on the 20th instant, for his new post at Kueilin, His Excellency will first call at Shanghai en route, travelling overland by way of Hunan and Hupeh provinces, and take steamer for this port at Hankow (Hupeh province). Governor Li will probably make a short stay in Shanghai before proceeding by steamer to Canton.
A Native Report from Chefoo states that owing to the Russian troops encamped between Tashihchiao and Hai-(ching being supplied with tins of putrid roast beef, due to having been canned many years ago, and other causes, there is considerable sickness amongst the troops, many endingfatally. These Russians have also lately been suffering from the lack of good drinking water, the wells dug so far, especially at Haichéng and vicinity, being very brackish.
The Cashiered Magistrate Pei, who was condemned to death by Viceroy Tsen at Canton, for a number of crimes, and who, as will be remembered, afterwards fled to Macao, is, according, to a report in mandarin circles, to.be: given up by the Portuguese authorities after all. There are conditions, however, to this rendition, and they are that the cashiered magistrate is not to be handed over to the Canton officials, but that he: shall either be sent to Peking or to Shanghai, where he may be: tried. before a mixed tribunal of: foreign and, Chinese officials.
'The Chinese Students' Mecca of Western Learning A Tientsin dispatch states that Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai_ is sending forty more students to Japan to finish their modern education. Twenty of these students are already far enough advanced to enter the higher colleges in. Japan, while the other twenty are to take up special studies. They have been selected from the various "Middle" schools, established by Imperial command in the several prefectural cities of Chihli province, and the district magistrate of the town to which each student belongs has to bear his expenses while in Japan, at the rate of $400 per capita per annum, the money being, of course, taken from the Government funds in' each magistrate's hands. It is computed that there are now at the least computation 1,200 Chinese students in Japan hailing from nearly every province of the Empire, 26th Julp.
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