rd December.
Phe Mixed Court Magistracy.
"W'dhort' time ago it was noted in' these eqlurane that Governor Tuan Fang had Dean sending confidential dept Shanghai to make personal observation and private enquiries about certain of the. local mandarins against whom some Chinese. merchants. and others in this port. hed presented a long string of complaints. When passing through few months age on his way er the Governorship of Kiang-ssu, it appeared that several influential jad already made certain complaints tothe Governor about the Mixed Court Magistrate, whose underlings were asserted to be not all that they should be and who were said to exercise great influence with the Magistrate himself. We..anderstand thet one other serious complaint was made by the Chinese Chamber of. Commerce here against the sxme official, namely, the issuance of, warrants, used for criminal cases, upon defendants in civil actious—s rock on which s previous Magistrate also struck, and was dismissed from office: Furthermore, a lack of good working knowledge of English, we hear, was also asserted to be one of the accused official's shortcomings, thereby causing - mi understandings. As was his custom, Governor" Tuan Fang "explained things to the official complained against and gave him a chance to reform matters, Apparently things have not turned out satisfactorily, for on Thursday afternoon his Excellnecy sent a telegram from Nanking to Yuan Taotai of this port to the effect that the reputation and ability of the present incumbent of the International Mixed Court being such as to make him unsuitable for the post, steps must be taken: to replace him. A paragraph.in the "Sinwenpao" yesterday morning on this same subject makes:.the language of the: Governor very much stronger..In conclusion, we learn that the acting predecesser of: the present -incumbent, Mr. Kuan Chin, who gave uniform: satisfac: tion during' the' short time he filled the Mixed Court bench last spring, and who has experience and a good working knowledge of English, having been acting, since leaving the Mixed Court, as chi English Interpreter to the Shanghai Taotai, will probably be chosen to sueeed the present magistrate.
ASerious Charge.
The Shanghai Taotai received yesterday a dispatch from Wang, sub-prefect of South T'ungchon (near Nanking) complaining that a certain Ku Chih-yun, attached in same official capacity ("Sz ship") to the Chitu Hui (Foreign Chris tian Missionary Society) in that city, has been lately found inciting and interfering with lawsuits, and requesting Yuan Taotai to take steps to notify the heads of the Society in Shanghai about ti matter through the British Consular authorities.
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