It is stated that, with the beginning of May next, the Natural History and For-entry Classes of the Peking University, under their Japanese instructors, will visit Chefoo and thence travel leisurely inland to make a study of the natural history and physical resources of Shantung province. Itis, of course, impossible to expect this work to be done within the short time—one month—at the disposal of the students, but they will do as much as they can and then resume their work at the same next year until they have completed it, when they will take either Chihli or Honan province as the next field of operations, and so on.
A New Official to Examine Native Cotton.
The Shanghai Taotai has appointed an expectant district magistrate (Chihhsien) of this province, named Sun Hsin-yuan, to take charge of the Office for the Examination of Watered Cotton, in the suburbs of the Native City here. Mr. Sun was Inspector of Water Traffic here before his appointment to his present post.
The Magistrate-Designate of the International Mixed Court, Mr. Tu' Hsin-chih, who went last week to Soochow to report his arrival from Nanking to Governor Hu Yuan-ting, was the next day, given his "Cha-tse." or Commission, with the seal of the Governor, officially appointing him Magistrate of the International Mixed Court. After a couple of days' stay in Soochow Mr. Tu returned to Shanghai on Sunday afternoon and is expected to take over his duties from the Acting Magistate, Mr. Kuan Chun, some time this week.
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