A number of Hunanese merchants and officials, on the retired, as well-as on the active list, residing in Shanghai, having decided to build here a guild house worthy of their great province, approached H.E. Viceroy Wei Kuang-t'a0 the other day, while at the Kiangnan Arsenal, and ask BLE. to subscribe something towards the building fund. To their surprise and gratification H.E. at once wrote out an order for Tls. 60,000. This amount and the Tls. 20,000 already subscribed by the Shanghai Taotai, who is also a Hunanese, and fifteen others will enable the building Committee to begin work at once on the proposed site outside the East gate of the Native City.
More Presentations to Mr. Chang.
On Friday afternoon Mr. Chang, the Mixed Court magistrate, was again made the recipient of a number of other Té- chen-pat, or "Good Government tablets," the donors being members of the Chinkiang Merchants' Guild and of the Native Bankers' Guild in the cosmopolitan Settlement. Boon after the presentation of the above another one was made of four large tablets, the donors this time being members of a much Inumbler class in life. Nothing less than thirty-seven poorly clad, humble fortune-tellers! It appears that a year or two ago a number of these fortune-tellers who, as a matter of fact, are needy scholars and have to depend upon their pen and ink for a living, had stands or "pitches" in the great and minor rds of the North Honan Road temple of the Queen of Heaven, where devotees, ete., having worshipped at the shrines, never failed to apply to these fortune-tellers either to cast their horoscopes or seck for advice from their oracle as to where to find a missing child or lost article of apparel. or other useful thing and the like. Somehow or other the police wished to clear the courtyards of these men amongst others, as it was found that loafers, rowdies and gamblers also congregated in those precincts, where they victimised the unwary rustic and fleeced the and unstispecting. This was ing away the "rice" from the mouths of the harmless fortune-tellers with a vengeance, and so they appealed for aid to Mr. Chang, in his capacity of Mixed Court magistrate. Mr. Chang, it seems, did something to alleviate the situation and "delivered from starvation" a lange number of these humble and needy followers of Confucius and the ancient sages, an act which has obtained for himself the deep gratitude of these poorly cludand fed scholars, who accord: ingly took the opport of manifest their gratitude and affection on Friday th noted in the fore There seems to be no doubt that the re instatement of Mr. Chang to the post which the majority of Chinese here th has been undeservedly taken. from hin, will be learnt with real joy by them.
The Disturbance at Lin santa,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.