Recent native papers published in the North continu the news printed in these "Notes" a few weeks ago to the eff-ct that it is the intention of the Central Government to appoint a Tartar General to Lhassa instead of an Imperial Resident as hitherto, and that the first offic fill the new post will probably be ¥i Ki formerly Vice-President of the Board of War and at present Commissioner-General of Land Reclamation in Mongolia and Tartar General of Sdiyuenchéng, Shan province.
Not too ill to attend a banquet.
For some time the Russian Consul-General here has been trying to g-t the consent of the Sanghai Taotai to permit Admiral Reitzenstein who came here in the Russian cruiser Askol to return home on the plea of illness. This, however, his Honour Yuan tas consistently refused. Ca the occasion of Queen Margherita of Tialy's birthday the Admiral callet on board the Italian cruisers in port to pay his congratulations and incidentally al-o seepped to partake of Inncheon, on board the Italian flagship. This Yuan Taotai declares is proof enough thet the Russian Admiral is not so very ill as it is desired to make him out to be and he gives this as one of his reasons to refuse the interned officer permission to take sick leave. A Proposed Shensi-Shansi Railway.
Tels stated from Peking that last summer a representative of a French syndicate accompanied by a Shansi man holding rank, petitioned both the gpu for permission between Hsian, the capital of Shensi, Taiyuanfa the capital of Shansi, a distance of nearly seven hundred miles. The petition was referred to the Governors of the two provinces concerned to report upon and the reply has now been received that con-Jering the importance of the route, through which the proposed me will pass it wou'd not be politic to allow foreigners to control or work such a railway and that, moreover, there are plenty of wealthy gentry and merchants of the two provinces quite ready to raise the funds required for fis construction with-ut resorting oreign capitalists at all.
8th December.
The Russian" Destroyer Grossovol, hitherto moored new the Chinese Bund, has been, with the consent of Yuan Taotai, the Chinese taken over to the Pootung side to lie with, the Askold and Mandjour. This has been done at the request of the Russian Consul-General, on the ground that it was oxtremely inconvenient for the destroyer's crew to cross over to Pootung for their daily constitutional.
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