We regret to have to chronicle the death here on the 18th instant, at noon, of Mr. Cho Shao-ying, a silk merchant well-known to foreigners here. The deceased gentleman was suffering from tuberculosis, so that his death was not altogether unexpected. There is a report in the Settlement, though with what trath we are unable to say, that the deceased was the lucky purchaser of the first and some minor prizes of the Nanyang Lottery—reorganised from the—well-known Kiangnan Lottery—amounting to some $54,000, which was paid to him only two days prior to his death.
To Propitiate the Dragon King.
It is stated that in order toguin the goodwill of the terrible Dragon, who rules the waves of the Yellow River and whose wrath has often devastated by' inundation vast tracts of land on either: side of " China's Sorrow," and to obtain his dragonship's protection over the newly-built Yellow River railway bridge, the Empress Dowager will sond Prince Tsai chou, the son of Prince Ching, to sacri fice at the river side and at the Temple of the Dragon King, near the vicinity of the now railway bridge. It is also Prince will promise, in Majesties' name, now titles and attributes to the Dragon King if he obeys the Imperial wishes and grants continued protection to the railway bridge from storm and wave.
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