The Shangpu, or Board of Commerce, having decided to establish a practical Business College in Poking, issued about three months ago proclamations inviting young men to compete for places in this college, at the same time notifying the various Viceroys and Governors of provinces of the project and requesting their ce-operation in getting applicants for the College. A Peking dispatch now states that there are no less than 2,500 applicants for membership, hailing from almost every province of the Empire, which is @ good sign of the desire for modern education among the rising generation.
The New Director-General of Tribute Grain Transport and the Grand Canal, HE. En Shou, late Governor of this province, according to a 'Tsingkiangpu dispatch,' took over his seals of office in that city on the 20th instant.
The Mounted Bandits of Manchuria, says a Chinese official who arrived here yesterday from Mukden, are being instructed by certain able teachers in the art of digging trenches and putting up breastworks on a number of eminences and strategic points in the vicinity of the Russian forces from Mukden down to Haichéng, which work having been done satisfactorily, they leave to any Japanese force that may happen to come along to occupy. Somé- times these bandits are molested in their work by Russian detachments of Cossack scouts and a fight ensues—not always in favour of the Cossacks—but in the majority of cases the digging and entrenching are done quietly and soorotly and so pass unnoticed by the Muscovites, until they find a Japanese force snugly ensconced within their works,
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