BH. E. Chen Chao-chang, Governor of Kirin, has telegraphed to the Government, asking it to inform the Diplomatic ('orbs in Pekiog that, with the exception of beans, the grain ombargo will have to be enforced at Fenghuangting and Hingking in a month, and then gradually in the other parts of Mukden, IMPERIAL COUNCIL MEBTINGS, 'A Chinese contemporary says that the ince Regent and the Government Ministers have arranged to hold Imperial Connell meetings this spring and ba decided on the {allowing roles with regard to them The meetings shall be held experimentally and should only be correned to discuss important di internal affairs. No definite times will be fixed for such meetings and the regaler meetings at present of the Governnrent Council should be continned undisturbed. These meeting ed to be held in the Yang Hain or Chien Ching Throne Halls and the right of presence shall be limited to civil and military officials of the second officials do not attain to the second grade until they are about sixty years of age and often over, 60 that the results of deliberations by a number of weak-eyed, deaf, gray-headed and bent-backed gentlemen may well be imagined. Well may such be christened the it of the grand old Empire.
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