states that the people of Shantung pro-Under the above caption the same paper vine have decided to request HIS.
huan, the Trexty Commissioner, who is n native of thnt province. to look after their railway interests in Shantung, in the same way that Mr. Li Ching-fang, Director-General of Railways, vice Sheng Kung-pao, ha con elected by his fellow-provin-of Anhui to look after their railway terests in that province.
The Imperial Government Mint in Tientsin has lately boon striking some new copper coins of various denominations which, in time, are to supersede all the foreign-modelled copper coins now being so profusely turned out by the i vincial mints. The new coins are two-cash pieces, five, ten and tiventypieces, and it is stated nearly a million of these have already been struck and sent up to the Board of Revenue for distribution in Peking. For the present, in order to maintain a uniform copper coinage in the provinces the Shangpu has decided to appoint special inspectors to superintend the various provincial mints the officials of which will in future be required to issue silver and copper money of a uniform weight and fineness on pain of being denounced to the Throne.
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