'The Shanghai Taotai having received a dispatch from the Javanese Consul dewunding that the Russian vessels now interned in Shanghai should be moored together, instead of being scattered as they are at' present, has communicated with the O"mmisvioner of Customs, asking the loiter to select n suitable place in the Huangpu for the purpose la view, of longevity, was further covered, several deep, with floral-wroxths and flowers. It was carried by two relays of thirty-two uniformed coolies each. The decessed having brenan important membering native financial circles the majority of those who followed procession were connected with banking institutions, native and foreign, here. Friends of the deceared beloneing to the staffs of the Chartered Bank, Busso-Chinese, and other Banks, offered faneral libations to his manes a the coffin passed the front of. each Bank, which compliment was acknowledged by kowtows by the rons of the decessed gentleman who merched Wehind the coffin, clad in sick cloth, and under a white pall which hid them partly from the public gaze, exch being supported by two servants "'so garbed in the Usual mourning colour of white. There appeared only one European in the procession which he followed la a brough ham accompanied by " native friend. The cortin. will remain in the Mortuary on Burkill Road until such ti Mi. Zih Chin-foo's sone and heirs selecteds suitable spot for interment im his native island of Tungtugsban, T'sihu Lake, near Soochow. There are several reports going the rounds as to the value of the property left by the deceased gentleman, but two million and a-half to thre million tae's is probably the mark. The death of Mr.
Chin-foo is real loss to Shanghai, where he held a, Lord Li Chin-fang, ex-Minister to Japan, and the adopted son of the Into Marqu Li we understand, has been lately recom. mended to the Throne by Prince Ching as a person well-fitted to be Imperial Commissioner of Commerce for the Nanyang. Should such an appointment be sanctioned, Lord Li will very probably make his headquarters in Shangh: Governor Tuan Fang of hunan, It is rumoured in Mandarin circles that HE. Tuan Fang, Governor of Hunan province, may possibly be soon. promoted to the Viceroyalty of the Min-che (Fu n_and Chekiang) provinces. The general desire, however, seems to be that if he is to Promoted at all, the, 'Throne' may put his E: jency in' the Viceregal chair at Nanking, Wanted, A Viceroy with Naval Knowledge.
It is reported from Poking that the Grand Council has been commanded by the Throne to select from amongst the Tartar Generals, Viceroys, and Governors of th Eupire one who has had some experi and kn ledge of modern naval affairs, "as their jjestios have use for such a to name one off hand to it Majesties, the Grand Council has had to send a circular note to the various 15th June,
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