Last year a priest of the Greek Church purchased a piece of land from an un-authori ed person, in Chiinhua district, Chi., which it has transpired i. public round, being the property ofoue of the ight Manchu Banner Corps Organisations and therefore conjointly owned by all the members of the Banner Corps concerned. By some oversight on the part of the Chibhsien of Chiinhuahsien the bill of sale for the piece of land was officially stamped which could make the document legal in any Chinese Court of law, but for the ce bes the public property of an perial organisation the purchaser failed to obtain the seal of either the Captain-General or the Lieuten-aut-General of the Bauner Corps in question on his bill of sale. Furthermore, as soon as the Waiwupu was made aware of the transaction that Board lost no time in rissian Minister in Peking, ending with out the defects of the sale to the the request that the land in dispute be handed back to the legal owners, who would return the purchase Imoney to the purchaser. In spite of all this a Peking letter remarks that the Russian Minister has repeatedly refused to entertain the request, while on the other hand, the members of the Banner Corps concerned are equally'determined toget back their property. Unless speedily settled there are rears that this dispute ma: blossom into popular riot against the an priests at present in possession.
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