General Teng ($8@BfR) arrived here to-day from Paoning. The thing that attracted me most was the crowd of beautiful ponies. Rumour has it that perhaps his coming is connected with the collapse of the soldiers who are stationed at Pochow. I can't suggest how, but I was not able to discover whether the general likely to stay here or pass on. He is Southern Commander-in-Chief Lin Hsiang has one or two interesting proclamations on the walls of the city. He says: "There is a tendency for the military to be extravagant; this must be curbed, and the people must not be made to pay unreasonable sums for the upkeep of soldiers stationed among them. Again, parties of
engaged in surveying work. soldiers in the various districts are may be that civilians do not realize what they are doing, but all are warned not to~hinder them in this There is a great rush un ihe Mission Boarding Schools this term, and scholars are being regretfully refused.
CowstantinopLz, Mar. 19.—A fire has destroyed the large new depots of the Standard Oil Go. on the Bosphorus.—Reuter.
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