Mr. Chao Hsin-ju and forty-four of his follow-graduates of the Shantung University at Chinan, who arrived here on Sunday from Shantung, on route for Japan to take post-graduate courses, were entertained to a dinner on Monday at the Shantung Guildhouse, the joint has being thei Excellencies Li Hui-huan, President of the Boxrd of Works and Treaty Commissioner, and Wu Ch-ung-hsi, Vice-Director-General of Imperial Tolegraphs, and Mr. Wang, the Shanghai City Magistrate, who are all natives of Shantung province and who took the present opportunity to honour the younger generation of their native province and future leaders of the nation.
His Honour Yuan Shu-hsun, Taotai of Shanghai, on promotion to be Provincial Judge of Kiangsu, we understand, is anxious to return to his native city in the province of Hunan before proceeding to his new post in Soochow, and has sent up a petition to Viceroy Chou Fu at Nanking asking the latter to obtain for him from the throne " short: loave of absence, in order that he (Yuan) may "pay a visit to the graves of his, ancestors and undertake any repairs that may be necessary to them."
21st September.
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