The Archive · 1910

The Parliament Question

Chinese telegrams say that an Association has been formed in Peking to support the Provincial Delegates in petition to expedite the opening out. A weeting was to have been held yesterday and money will be subscribed to send telegrams to all the provinees, and to Chinese abroad, asking them to elect representatives to meet in the capital by the end of the second moon in order to form a rosery force in sapportiog the Delegates their prayer for the speedy opening Parliament in Chinese. It is said that the Delegates have drafted a second jon end intend to obtain the good offices of Prince Teal Hstio to ask the to present it, value of the ore in sight last August was £836,000. The offer of £50,000 was three times made and refuted, and the above rumour cannot, therefore, be taken seriously.—Ed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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