The aw Courts in this province do not show much, if, any, improvement over those in earlier times, at any. rate as Fegards prompt and fair od ministration of justice, and yet T ange read of a well-known Chinese att thority state abroad that Chinese law is as good as, if not better than, that in Western lands; was he really ignorant of the facts or did he speak with his tongue in his cheek? But it may be that he was merely speaking of fow as on the statute books, not as it is administered; to the "man in the street" the latter is of the first importance at the present time.
The coming in of so many (for Kweichow) foreigners to this prov-. Ince ig creating some dimeulty, both for the authorities and for the foreigners concerned. It Is very important that passports are fully in Order; og, it should be seen to that Kweichow' is named on the passport, one which may be visited; in at' Yeast two cases this year the omission of this has made some diffeulty. And when a foreigner comes without a passport or with a time-expired pass-ort, there is likely to be trouble,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.