met for an extra session.
The Viostoy and the Governor were represented by H. E. Lu, the Provincial Treasurer, of Soochow, and there were present many other high officials. Formal basines only was transacted The eas to be ornsidered in-clades the foreiga loan of Tle. 3,000,000 raised by the Viceroy, a proposal by the Soochow City Council in reference to the control of uncultivated Lauds and a proposal for the circulation of literature denouncing foot-binding. Only forty-four members attended the opening meeting, not quite half the fall number No sitting will, therefore, be held Or a fow days, ing last month at Chefooand its environs was 251, including a French Sister.
A Kintx report gives the daily namber of deaths from the plague at Changchan and its vicinity before the 15th of the last month as about an]? average of 120, and states that the cases decreased greatly daring the last balt of the same month, which fact has pacified the people to a wonderfal that Honan province infected by the plagao ha reached Peking. The Governor, H. Pao Teng, has asked for Tle. 100,01 id by the y of Fis for expenditare on plague prevent measures. An Imperial Decree referred the matter to Shevg Hsuan-busi, Qo March 3, the Prince Regent ordered the Ministry of the Interior, the Yaméa of the Peking Gendarmeri ud the Shuatien Prefecture to abate nary measures whatever for oppression of the plague, though the disease has been almost non-existent for the last fortnight.
Along the railway live in South Mancharis the disease is reported to have disappeared for some time. Some cases are now and theo reported in some of the Chinese towns, but, comed from Peking, Viceroy Hei Lisog news telegraph-has despatched a telegram to the Grand Council stating that, although the plague has been gradually disappearing, the people have been denuded of their properly by ite advent, and require immediate aid. He requested that inbe given to the Finance ry to raise sufficient fands for the purpose,
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