As will, perhaps, be remembered, H. E. Chen Pih, President of Ministry of Posts and Communications, has been occupied lately in buying up all the shares of the Chinese Telegraph Administration held by the people, in order to make the service an entirely Government, or national concern, In spite of a great deal of opposition on the part of the principal shareholders which threatened at one to wreck his scheme, H.E. Cheo Pih, we understand, has succeeded at last and has reported his success to the Throne. We may now fairly expect some reductions in the rates for messages sent by the lives of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in the near future, especially as regards Press telegrams. munications has asked that the Imperial sanction be given to Liang Shih-yi, Chief Secretary in the Department of Railways in that Ministry, to assume supervisory control over the Railway lines which are being operated by the ('antral and Provincial Governments. A Foochow dispatch states that, at a large {ment cannot forfeit its rights by grant-meeting of gentry, notables and mer-chaute in that city lately, Mr. Hu Kuo-lien was elected Chief Commissioner of the Provincial Mining Barean of Fokien. A petition to that effect was syed subsequently sent to the Ministry of Agriculture, Works and Commerce.
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