During the regimes of the predecessors of the present Viceroy the Liangkiang provinces, at Nanking, those high officials generally attended personally to the transaction of all matters having reference to international relations in this part of the country, receiving reports thereanent from the officials at the head of the Buronux of Foreign Affairs of the provinces not only under their immediate jurisdictions, such as Kiangsu, Kinngsi and Anhui, which comprise the Viceroyalty known as the Liangkiang, but generally speaking also of the provinces of Chekiang in their capacity of High Commissioners of the Nanyang Administration—Nan-yang-ta-ch'én. Naturally these matters take up a considerable portion of the valuable time of the Viceroy to the exclusion of local matters of importance, causing much contusion and delay in the proper working of the provincial machinery. A new departure was therefore urgently needed, but no-one appeared to be able to take the bull by horns until the arrival of H. E. Li Hsing-jui, the present Viceroy at Nanking, who is especially fortunate in having a clever and alert assistant in the person of his Honour Yang Wen-ting, ex-Provincial Judge of Fukien, specially appointed by Imperial decree to the Nanyang Administration. correspondent at Nanking now writes that under the advice of Yang Wen-ting, Viceroy Li Hsing-jui has raised the status of the Nanking Bureau of Foreign Affairs to that of Chief Bureau of Foreign Affairs of the Liangkiang provinces and as the ex-Provincial Judge is one of the "most experienced and capable officers in international matters in the Nanyang Administration, having been for many years confidential secretary on foreign affairs of the Into Viceroy Marquis Li Hung-chang in Tientsin, and one of the latter's principal assistants during the anxious period immediately following the Boxer war of 1900, Viceroy Li Hsing-jui has therefore appointed him to the post of Director-in-Chief This is a choice witch has given much satisfaction all round. Our correspondent further states that instructions have been issued to the Bureaux of Foreign Affairs of all the provinces composing the Nanyang Administration that all matters regarding foreign intercourse shall be referred to the Chief Bureau at Nanking and that Consuls of the Foreign Powers in the Nanyang provinces will be requested to communicate direct with the Chief Bureau of Foreign Affairs in any matters affecting international relations requiring the attention of the officials of the Nanyang Administration. This _procedure, it is felt, will greatly simplify as well as expedite matters, which otherwise would be subject to tiresome delays, owing to the multi i ing the attention of a single man. generally anticipated that the now management will tend to make closer aad more cordial the relations between the Consular Bodies of the various provinces of the Nanyang and the officials representing that Administration.
Postponed.
The execution in the native city of the pirate " Kui Tungeaai"' (ie Kao Tung-s8ng) which was to have taken place yesterday morning did not happen "as advertised." owing to the receipt by the Shanghai Taotai on Saturday morning of a telegram from Governor Tuan Fang requiring the prosonoe of the condemuvil pirate at Soochow to answer to some other serious charges of robbery and piracy in some of the Yangtze cities, notably the robbery some throo years ago of a largo pawnshop in Jukaohsien, South Téungchou sub-profecture (neat Nanking), belonging to the family of t Marquis Li Hung-chang. Kao Tung-sen, it appears, confessed the deed to the Shanghai Magistrate, who in obedience to "governor Tuan Fang's instructions sent the pirate to Soochow on Saturday afternoon under an escort of twenty-soldiers and a dozen " runners." The man will therefore in all likelihood be summarily executed in Soochow and not in this city.
The Coftin which was brought down from Tients Friday by the Hsinya, which someot Tientsin took to be the Grand Secretary Wang Wen-shao's, while others again thought it to contain the body of Madame Wang, the Grand Secretary's wife, really contains the remains of one of his Excel-nelsons. On Thursday the Shanghai Taotai received a telegram from the Waiwupu apprising his Honour of the above fact, and when the Heinyii arrived on the next day the local mandarins were at the Kinleeyuen wharf to receive the coffin, 11th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.