Courts and Police-Offices yesterday, your correspondent noted that the from front of them has been recently. Lrightoned up, in anticipation of an approaching visit from the members of the Exteality Commission. The colour-wash on the walls has all} been renewed, The big "fu"! characters, which mean "happiness", have been painted a bright red on a blue background. A scaffolding ithin shows that the sare also attention. If the members of the international commission are really interested in paint and colours, it is to be hoped that they will top round outside to the side-walls and back of the building, and inquire why they have not been furbished up too. Tt might also be suggested that they should make inquiries concerning the failure of the electric light supply.
The funeral of Tsao Yin, who Gied while superintending'the arrangements for Tupan Hsiao's funeral, took place la Wuchang on Wednesday. The procession follow. ed much the same course as the funeral of the preceding Sunday, going from the Long Street to the Little Bast Gate, znd thence to the big Taoist temple outside the His East Gate. Here, the coffin was left, until such time as the opening of the railway line will permit of where the final interment will take Being taken away to Tientsin] 'Thankless Return of Governor Place. It is "said that there were Yen's Kindness: Shansi more than a thousand people in the Facing a Crisis faneral' procession, and that the banners and tributes of respect} From Ore Kiaxccitow ComrenroxENT. were all that was proper in such a case. But after the mich bigger Shansi, Feb. 20, of a few days previous, the Shansi is now facing. a ' crisis ceremony really attracted very, that makes her best friends anxious. little attention, She has stood alone peaceful and The cost of living is still on the prosperous while the neighbouring rise, causing an increasing aniount provinces seem to have gone from of distress amongst the classes, Within the past few weeks, Pa #@ worse in thet chaste patties 'POCKET) bad to wars heir chaotic politi the price of the poorest class rice has gone up from 43,000 to 40,000 cash "per tan, Wheat lour has increased from 21,000 22,000 up to the 23,000 or 24,000; coal from 2,000 to 3,300; Vegetables have nearly doubled in price. b The greatest mat is, how any of the Poor are living at all, with all their staple articles of food and use thus mounting up to sky-high prices, not well within the borders, be No class has been more favoured vineial Governor than students by H, B, recent. shameless want "bf of the Governor's been undisguised, What they demand or expect, it would be hard to tell but the students are dissatisfied.
Heavy Taxation
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