Subject, Owing to the unwarrantable delay of the Quinsan magistrate prisoner, Sir Pelham W: Mr. Vice-Consul Twyman up to Quinsan to mako a personal demand upon. the magistrate. The Quinsan magistrate, by the way, it is reported, is about to be promoted to the Paoshan (Woosung) magistracy. It is to be hoped that the dispatch of Mr. Twyman to Quinsan will end the scandal at once.
The Taotai-designate of Shanghai, his Honour Jui Ch'éng, is of Manchu descent, and just prior to the Boxer disturbances of 1900 was filling the post of a substantive second-class Secretary of the Board of Punishments. When the allied forces captured Peking in the autumn of 1900, the Commanding Officer of the Japanese contingent, learning that Jui Chang was possessed of an expert knowledge of Chinese laws, invited him to join the staff as a judicial adviser. It is stated in Poking, that it was largely through the careful advice Jui Ch'éng gave to the Japanese military authorities during their administration of their portion of Peking, that that part of the Chinese capital was considered by everyone in the North at that time to be the best governed of all the foreign administration in Peking. When the allies evacuated Peking, the knowledge Jui Ch'éng had gained from the Japanese of gendarmerie administration methods recom. mended him to Prince Ching, who appointed him to start a modern force of gendarmes in the Capital, over whom he was made the chief. Jui Ch'éng appeared to have been quite successful and popular in -this work and gained in consequence the respect of the inhabitants over whom ho had for a time been placed.
After leaving Poking Jui Ch'eng was appointed Tavtai of Kiuliang, and as far as cart at present be ascertained, seems 10 have got flong pretty well in that eapacity during the past four years or so. We may here state that his Honour had the principal hand in settling the boundaries of the Kuling Estate a couple of years ago, and also the quasi-insurrection at Loping last year, when the inhabitants in their wrath at the injustice of their magistrate almost de-troyed' his yamen and other public offices.
The Funeral Ceremonies of the late Mr. Tsze'Ming-shang (Hsu Min-hsiang), who died jhere on the 5th ultimo, we are requested to state, will take place on Monday morning next, and all friends are jiuvited to attend, 'The cortege will leave the residence, No. 89, Ningpo Road, at 10 a.m. and' the following is the route to be' taken Ningpo Road and turn through Honan Road to Nanking Road. Turn westwards to Fukien Road, south to Canton Rond turn north up Honan Road as far as Foochow Road; turn west as far as HupehjRoad; Sturn North, across the Maloo into Chekiang Road, cross North Chekiang Road Bridge, then westwards along Soochow Road to North Tibet Road, finally arriving at the Mortuary, west of the North Tibet Road.
The deceased gentleman was born sixty-six years ago in Wuch'énghsion, Huchou prefecture, in the neighbour. ing province of Chekiang, and did a largo business in silk, for which his native city and prefecture ary well-known, Ho had the reputation of being one of the wealthiest Chinese in Shanghai, and at the time of his death was "member of the. Board of Directors of the Imperial Bank of China. He leaves several sons, the oldest of whom ig an expectant Taotai of this province and one of the Director' of the Imperial Chinese Rail. way Administration.
18th September. Vice-Ca:
ul Twyman's Successful
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