Weising Lottery, .at, Canton, having been sounded by the recent, Imperial decree commanding the abolition of th ini (Chiijeo, or Master,.of, Arts) and. triennial (Chinshih, or] Doctor), competitions, ithas caused a loss of a yearly,, revenue to the. Provincial Government' of Kuangtuig' of "nearly $360,000, this sum being annually psid by a clique of wealthy gentry-of Canton forthe monopoly of conducting the-Lottery.*' consequence of this there will be a serious deficit. in' the Provincial Exchequer of "Kuangtung which has hitherto been depending upon this annual: subsidy partly for paying''the local' troops and. partly - for money needed: for. public. works...In view'of this,. Viceroy Tsen, Ch{un-hsuan, according t" Canton native correspondent, has been making arrangements to floats domestic: loan of three million taels at seven. per cent' interest and repayable in instalments within period of ten years. It is pitiable to observe that for fear that the people of Kuaigtuig' hi idence in the promises.of "their" ows Viceroy' has annownéed that pulation of the loan will'"bé™ placed in the hands of the foreign Commissioner: of the Impetial Maritime Customs, who will take charge: of the -duty of regularly pay-tug the interest on thd Toon and the Topsy ment of the: various instalments at their this way,". says the Viceroy in his announcement, there will be no danger ofi: dishonest..attempts. to defraud the people of their rightful dues." 'The revenues'' derived' from the' fan-tan gambling monopoly, the monthly Government lottery (sanctioned by Imperialediet), and other missier Tofteries: are to form the guarantees for' the repayment of the reposed loan. Tt is further, stated. that Ticeroy Ts6u has already received the Imperial sanction to. float, the loan,, and. the promise is also made that the money obtained by the loan will, be used only for local public works and schools and. for no other purpose. Ir now remains tg be seen whether. Viceroy, Tsen' Ch'un: will be as successful in his' venture in Canton as the Viceroy of Chitili at Tien: tsin. ai 4
Changing the Curriculum, ACh'angsha, éapitsl of Hunan province,
chase of the Yueh-Han (Can'on-Hankow) dispatch states' that ores to the re-pur-Railway, and all that such concession means, from the American-Belgic syndicate, which brings into prominence the urgent need. by the country of Chinese civil engineers, the Boards of Control of the Changsha Government. College and of the Tnstitute, established by: the gentry and merchants of that city, have decided to abolish at once the curriculum. hitherto in practice in the two institutions and orders have been issued tothe professors teachers to bend their whole attention to instructing the scholars under, their care to a knowledge of civil ' enyinebring and its aéconipanying branghés{
, The Reform of the now "uséles3 military organisation of the whole St the Mongo). depend: Caner and Outer Mongols) of China, we understand from a Peking letter, is to be taken.in hand with the beginning of next the Ministers! of the Army Reorganisation Department, of. whom the meat prominent and the energeticareTheit Excellencies Vie'roy Yuan Shih-R'ai and Tieh Linne, Grand Councillor and President ofthe Hoard of War. <It, is.-well-known thnt the Army Reorganisation Department or Lien Chi Ch'a, nest possesses a large staff of able and experienced officers whose efficient" work may "be seen in the fine Jady of modern-equipped and well-drilled troops (Chiiese and Manchus) in Chibli province." We learn that since May last number of officers of tho.D partment have been hard at. work in the. Mongolinw dependencies taking notes of and studying the: system of military. servi in vogue amongst: the: Mongols, and a census has also, after much hard work been ta*en of the number "df: able-bodied men—from eighteen.to forty-five years age—amiong the various. tribes and tribal longues inthe two dependencies. With all these-as data,-and-after the Grand Army manceuvres in: Hochien _prefecture,.-.in Chibli province. which will prove to their Majesties and the Grand Councillors and Presidents~"and: Vice-Presidenta -of the Great Boards, -the "efficient -work of the Department, it will be all easy sailing.for the staff'of the Lien: Chil-ch'u to extend their work not only into the Mongolian but into the: three Manchurian, and' other provinees of the Empire.
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