A Kirin dispatch states that an ox-Manchu Brigadier-General of Mukden, named Chin Ch'ang, now living in retire-mont in his native city of Kirin, has given two thousand mow of land and number of houses on his property to the Government, for the use of the proposed Government College where the youth of Kirin may learn modern arts and sciences. This patriotic gift has een made by Geneval Chin Chang twig to lack +f funds in the Kirin Provincial Tre-sury to build a Colts ge, in oh. d ence tu the Imperial decse~ commanding the establishment "f cho. ans colleges of seences and arts throughout the Empire, ster the example The has appointed Mr. Liu Shih-being, of Navking, to be Chief Director of the Rianguing Chamber of Commora and has Iso sent to that Chamber an official seal. This we understand was done in response toa petition to tht Board by the mem! of the Kiangning Cuamber of commerce.
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