Wen-dao, "has issued an oficial contradiction of the rumour that he is to be transferred to another post. One report was that he to go to Nanking and another th hho was to go to Tsingtao, He says hat the many important matters under consideration or in. prams Hankow City necessitate his remaining here. Incidentally, the meeting of the City Council eld_yesterday, several important juattors were a. Among these were the projected Bund and "the unification of the lighting systems. As regards the forme instructions were issued to the "police and the Construction Bureau Jointly take such steps os may "Ye necessary to overcome the "'igicutien created by the failure "of the China Merchants S.N.Co. fand Messrs. Butterfield & Swire to Surrender their river frontage As regards the latter, it was ssu igeated that all such steps as. are Jegally, possibie should be taken to close down the Hankow Light and Power Ca.
'A Naughty Old Jossman By way of comic relief from these sterner themes comes the story of an old men who Accumulating merit by collecting "paper on Which characters "had Deen written or printed and bumnting it at the temple. Among the other places to which his religious Fervour gained him access was the compound of the Waterwork Go, which he visited regularly. Clothes and other small goods "have been missed from time to time, but suspicion did not fall on the goldman till the wgatekeoper noticed that he was grunting rood deal as he carried out his Baskets. An investigation followed fand, one day it was found that he was" removing about forty entries of half-inch joints and bends from the stores of the company. Tus hairs faved him from, being over to the police.
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