His Excellency Tuan Fang, Viceroy of the Liangkiang provinces, gave banquet on the 4th instant at Nanking in honour of the thirty-seventh an versary of HIM. Kuang Hall's birth, to which about a hundred guests, foreign and Chinese, were invited. congratulate His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China on the auspicious completion, to-day, of the thirty-seventh anniversary of His Majesty's birth, and to thank your Excellency for this entertainment and the general courtesy that has been extended to all of us. I also wish to congratulate China on the prosperity of her Government. The kindly manner with which sojourners in your Empire are now treated by both officials and people isan "Tu consonance with the counsels of H. LIN. the Empress Dowager, our Emperor has been introducing wholesome reforms into our Government with the object in view that our Empire may grow stronger and more prosperous and that the administration of our domestic, as well as foreign, affairs may be more successful and satisfactory. The happiness of our people and steady progress in our Government, therefore, depend to indication that the friendly relations a large extent, upon the good health of
Powers are being isting between—ind the various H. I. M. the Emperor. gradually solidified "His Excellency has the honour of to the benefit of all concerned. By again giving hearty thanks to his many means of the experienced and matured honourable friends for their kind wishes counsel of Her Imperial Majesty the and congratulations."
Empress Dowager, His Majesty Kuang
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