With reference to the investigation of the accounts for the past number of years of the railways and mining entorprises under the Directorship of HE. Sheng Kung-pao, which was ordered by Imperial decree a few days ago, we learn that two members of the Shangpu or Ministry of Commerce, holding a rank equal to a Provincial Treasurer, have been appointed by that Ministry to go over these accounts in conjunction with BLE. Sheng Kung-pao in Shanghai. There two high officials are their Excellencies Yang Shih-chi, the able Vico-Director-Gonoral of the China Merchants' S.N.Co., and Director-in-Chief of the Chinese Commercial Telegraph Administration, and Wang Ling-mu, who was sent down
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