~Lilmpartial", a Chinese news-per in Tient-in, sayn that the atadents the Auhai School in Pekiog receatly held a meeting and telegraphed to the Shaoghai Taotai, protesting against his wrongful action in closing the Min Hsii Pao", They also telegraphed to the student bodies in the southern ports asking them to anita in presenting a petition to the Censorate to pray it to bring the matter before the Throne and to ask for the Taotai's punishment as a warning to officials who stifle public opinion.
Apropos of this ease, Prince So, President of the Ministry of the I terior, telegraphed to the Taotai, ing ing into the case, bat as ho received no satisfactory reply, he telegraphed to Viceroy Chang in Nanking, who referred it to the Taotai, The Prince Mi, then sent m second telegram ordering.
the paper to be opened, and stated there would be trouble otherwise.
It was this telegram, it is believed, wi led to the case being rushed and adjudged in the irregular and illegal way reported on Friday.
felt in enlightened Chinese circles that the Municipal Council and the Consular Body are not taking up the matter, perhaps, as keenly as they would have, if it had involved only the Chinese authorities and aot the Japanese and British Consulates, and it is contemplated to hold a meeting to address farther petitions to these bodies, praying their resistance to an Native reports say that " fire broke out among the straw huts at a place called Hon Ha, in Haokow, and destroyed over three thousand bots on the night of the 24th ultimo. Over ten people, including women and children, lost their lives, and eight more persons were drowned. As it happened, these huts were owned by poor people upon land belonging to a gentleman named Lui Yin-shéog, who, the story goes, attempted recently through the Chinese police to get some of the hut occupants to make way for some land required for rosels, This gave rise to " ramour that be had bribed some one to set fire to the huts, and over thousand of the hut occupants, enraged beyond control, proceeded to wreck Lin's house, which was near the British Seitiements. They completely destroyed the baure, and some neighbouring premises, including the rooms of the " Yo Pao" newspaper, also suffered damage. Daring the riot it is said that a Chinese constable belonging to the Briti Settlement was killed by the mob, the matter now forms the subject of official communications between the Chinese authorities and the British Consul-Geoeral. The Chinese officials turned out after the fire and provide! relief measures for the sufferers, They re obliged to keep some soldiers on the scene to prevent disorder.
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