Squadron up the Yangtze. is reported from Nanking that Viceroy Chou Fu, having received a dispatch from the Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai to the effect that Admiral Urin intends to steam up the Yangtze with his squadron, has reported the matter to the Waiwupu, asking that Ministry to explain to the Japanese Minister in Peking that a visit at the present moment of a Japanese squadron in the Yangtze will lead to great excite ment amongst the people there, which would be taken advantage of by the secret societies to create trouble. In view of this the Viceroy asks that miral' Uriu shall postpone his visit until more peaceable times.
Abolishing Likin Barriers, The "Shénpa" states that Viceroy Chou Fu intends to abolish likin barrier stations and to estab ish in their stead three prineipil tax brews at important points, where duty will be collected, covering the whole tox legally required. wahu on a certain day made no mention at all of the Vice-Presidents, "Teo have Their Eyes Opened."
'Twelve officials of Hupeh, the majority of them newly appointed to substantive posts in that province, and the others ex-Pectant officials, have lately arrived from Wuchang eu route to Japan for a six months' inspection of the laws and in-. stitutions of that country. They have been sent by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung who is determined to send every official of any ability under him to: Japan to have their "eyes opened " as to how ti modern world is moving along. It perhaps unnecessary to state that this step of Viceroy Chang's cannot fail to be of inoaloulable value to China and: Hupeh province especially. We ari 22ud June, to note that many of the Viceroy: {Sheng Kung-pao and the Laban Governors of other provinces ar following his Excellency's laudable Railway. example.
A Peking dispatch states that H.
Sheng Kung-pao has memorialised the Throne recommending the purchase of the Luhan Railway by the Imperial
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