Through the courtesy of Mr. Chou mercial Telegraph hor®, we are informed Wan-pang, Manager of the Chinese Com-that H. E. Lu Yuan-ting, Governor-designate of this province, left Nanking for Shanghai at noon yesterday in the Chinese cruiser Chunho. His Excellency, we also understand, has obtained ork leave from the Throne to visit his ancestral home in Hangchow before taking up his new appointment in Soochow, and will therefore on arrival here to-morrow proceed to Hangchow.
New Additions to this Province, Tt was mentioned in these "Notes" the other day that, owing to the formation of the new province of Kianghusi by cutting off alarge portion of the Northern dependencies of Kiangsu, this province had become so circumscribed that recommendation to the, Throne Lad been Intely made to take away the adjoin silk-producing prefectures of Huchou and Chiabsing (Keshing) belonging to Obé- Kiang province snd add them to th provincial Government of Kiang. A Peking dispatch to hand now reports that the Emperor, under advice of the Grand Council, has favourably consider-the recommendation, and that probably
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