Last week I informed you that, the Civil Governor of this city had given permission to the students to hold meetings and lectures to their hearts' content on. the Japanese question. Now it turns out that he gave his consent in such a way as to mean nothing! at all.
The facts of the case, so far as I can gather, are these. On the night of the 13th when the whole body of students was gathered about his yamen with the avowed intention of remaining there until they got what they wanted, the official in question finally consented to receive a deputation from the schoolboys, but when the members of that deputation entered his residence he retired from view and left the matter of dealing with them to his secretaries. These astute gentlemen informed the boys that the Governor was prepared to give in to their demands. The deputation thereupon presented document embodying their requests' and asked that, as consent had been given, the official seal should be attached to the paper. The secretaries, however, intimated that there was "nothing doing" in that line, and no agreement could move them from the position they taken up.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.