A Peking dispatch reports that the Central Government is considering the necessity of giving way to the almost tiniversal demand of the people for a Parliament in the near future, [tis probable that the original limit of fifteen years will he shortened by two-thirds, although the general demand is that constitution be granted three years from date at the furthest.
DISSATINFIED, It in reported from the Capital that 11K. Chang Vin-tang. Assistant Imperial Resident at Lhasa, who has been most energetic Intely in trying to not the Central Government to take a firm stand in relation to Tibetan affairs, and expecially to deal firmly without reference to that unknown quantity in Tibetan polities, the Dalai Lama, who ie still lingering (0 ing) in Shansi, is inch dissatisfied with the mouper in which his advice—fonnded on actual experience—has been received by the powers that be in the Capital. -Itis stated that, as a result of his endeavours, his Excellency hax been given a blot that his presence is more needed Lhasa than in Peking, and that he may at any moment receive instructions to return to his post.
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