NORTHERN NOTES, [YROM THE "P. & T. TIMÈS.") Á NEW BANK.
·TIENTSIN, 12th October, 1901,
A small Japanese bank is about to be opened in Peking.
VICEROY CHANG.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1901..
CHRISTIANS."
The vernacular paper published at Kino- chow reports that large numbers of the inbabi- tants of Shantung'ate becoming Christians, and many of them have presented umbrellas to the churches. This circumstance seems to cause great surprise to our contemporúry, as,
NOTES ON NATIVE AFFAIRS.
... [FROM THE IN.C.D. Newg
An Official Rumour.
A Nganking, capital of Anhui, dispatch states that it is rumound in mandarin circles in that,
Auctions.
PUBLIC 'AUSTION.
When Viceroy Chang goes to meet the Court last year, during the troubles, the Christians City that Governor Wang Chih-ch'un of that from the Official Administrator to self by
he will take 8,000 sokliers as a guard of honour,
SCHOOLS. Ten schools for the teaching of languages, principally English, have been recently opened
in Peking.
THE TUNG WEN COLLEGE... The Tung Wen College in Peking has been handed over to the Chinese by the German military authorities.
VLADIVOSTOCK.
An attempt is being tande to get Vladivostock re-established as a free port for another period of five years:
MOURNING.
The one hundred days of mourning for Yuan Shih-kai's mother expired on the 25th of last month, and on this day he resumed his duty."
A RIFLE RANGE. The Provisional Government has made a rifle range for the Chinese police at the South-wast of the city, also reserved a place for drilling the
force.
THE POLICE.
The native polire in the Provisional Govern- ment are to have another uniform, viz. black coat and trowsers, red cummerbund, and black turban.
BRIGANDAGE.
Brigandage on the river is still considerable, and the Tientsin Tantai Chang has asked the T. P.G. to allow his soldiers to cooperate with
the river police HUNG CHANG,
It is said that next month when Li. Hung Chang will have completed his work in Peking he will come to Tientsin and live in the tem- porary palace or yamen.
ASSAY OFFICE
*
The Assay Office in the Provisional Gorera- ment Bank opened a few days ago. The staff have come from Shanghai. Sycee however is very scarce and little has been sent to the Bank.
PRISONER SHO'T.
A prisoner one day, this week, was out at work in the native city and, when near the fiver, thought fit to jinake a bolt and jump into The guard promptly raised his
the stream. riffe and shot the man in the water.
.REFORM.
Lo Chunn-lin has reported to the Empress Dowager on the reforms memorials sent by Viceroy Liu: he is said to have stigmatized them as being somewhat mixed, and to have insinuated that the Vicerny is in bis dotage.
The je je says that in the reorganization of the Govern ent many departments will be abolished, and when Tientsio city is banded back, there will be a great curtailment of forin- er useless 'offices, a fierigners will be em- ployed.
A CHANCE FOR FOREIGNERS.
A NEWSPAPER.
One of the Censors in Peking has given per- mission to a Chinaman to publish a newspaper, at the same time cautioning him to observe the rules which editors in Europe are bound
were hated, whereas now they are imitated and
followed.
province has been. récently denounced on various charges by H.E. Viceroy Liu K'un-yi of Nanking, one of the chief counts preferred PITY THE POOR COURT! that some one be appointed to pablish an
A high official has memorialized the Throne being sail, to be the mismanagement of pro- vincial finances, thereby preventing prompt. illustrated book showing the anfferings that official relief to sufferers from the recent floods in Anhui and so endangering the peace of the the Gourt has sustained during its light from Peking, and that the book be circulated Yangtze Valley. Governor Wang Chib-ch'un throughout China, so that the people may be
has the reputation amongst Chinese officials of ashamed for what they have done (sic). There being a Russophile, and a partban of Viceroy is a positively delicious blandness in this latesti tung-chang, te whom he owes his first pro
inations in official life years ago specimen of courtier's real.
́ ́EXTORTIONATE EUNUCHS.
A number of eunuchs have been round the
countryside at, Hsian using the eunuch Li's name and extorting money. This displeased Li and he reported the matter to the Empress Dowager. A censor suggests that in order to clear eunuch Li's name, it is better that the Court should issue a proclamation to all Officials that no eunuchs are permitted to take money from either the Officials or the people. PIRATES.
On Wednesday night a mixed patrol com poised, we understand, of Germans, Sikhs and River police came to a low wall in the neigh- bourhood of Chun Liang Cheng and there found a gang of river pirates; the latter fired a volley and fled. One of the River police was killed and two men ofthe Hongkong Regiment severely wounded: one with a shot in the neck resulting in partial paralysis, the other had his leg shattered. The thieves in their fight left their rifles and a considerable quantity of ammunition.
DESTROYING CARTRIDGES.
In Peking millions of catridges have been destroyed in a certain place by the foreign forces in Peking. Gangs of men with over 40 carts and horses have been engaged carting the refuse away. The lend was melted, sold, and shipped out of the country; yet within a fort night of the completion of the work cart loads" of first class new cartridges have been taken and placed in the position occupied by those lately destroyed, and this too with the sanction of the Powers, and in spite of the prohibition of a clause in the Protocol!
MEMORIAL WINI OWS.
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The Minister Designate to Tokio. H.E. Ts'ai Chin (formerly Tholai of Shang hal), it is reported, is expected to arrive in Shanghai on the 22nd instant, from Yangtze ponts, where H. E. is said to have been actively "employed in "making good his position with his official superios during the past couple of monthsorso. H.E., it is further reported, expects to leave Shanghai for Tokio on the 9th proximo, and to take over his seals of office from H. E. Sheng-tu, the retiring Chinese Minister, on the 16th idem.
.
Tho Russian Withdrawal from: Manchuria.
The Sinwolapas, which is a semi-official organ, has the following :-" We learn from in- formation received that our Minister at St. Petersburg, H. E. Yang Ju, after repeated con. ferences with the Russian Foreign Office, in conjunction with the Chinese Plenipot entaries who, an the other hand, have béén constantly negotiating with the Rusijan. Minister in Peking; has succeeded in obtain- ing a consent from the Russian Govern ment, to withdraw their troops from the three Manchurian provinces" With reference to the foregoing the newer may be true enough that such a "consent has been obtained from the Muscovites, but the query is "When is it
to be ?"
The Return of the ex-Boxer.
A Tientsin letter reports the return of Nat Tung, special Ambassador to Japan, and staff to Tangku in the Chin? Merchants' steamer
sinyt on the 1st istant, and his landing. the next day to take train from Tangku to Peking via Tientsin. It is further reported that Na Tong intends to hästen to Kaifeng to meet the Court on its arrival at that city from Hsian.
THE JAPANESE POST OFFICE.
A DISGRACEFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS.
lancets of the window in the apse of the new We hear through Bishop Scott that the nine All Saints' Church are to be filled with stained glass which the Bishop will bring out with him. We understand that three of these are to be memorials to Mrs. Scott who, as our readers will remember, laid the commemoration stone" day or two before the onset of the Boxers. Captain and Mrs. Hurst of Taku are responsi ble for a fourth in memory of their little girl,
The Yomiuri, while claiming that the postal system in Japan has reached a very high stage while the fifth is in honour of Dr. Andrew Irwin and the sixth in memory of Captain of development, makes very strong complaints Strouts, R. M. The remaining lancets are yet
as to the absence of any sense of public moṛa- to be appropriated for so graceful a purpose.
lity among the staff employed. Although the regulations and system whereby the work is WHEN? by law to practice; he further advises him tocided that, when it returns to Peking, it will
The native papers say that the Court has de- carried on are very thorough and complete, yet
not a day passes, says our contemporary, with apply to the plenipotentiarics.
take the train at Chinting for Peking. The oul complaints being heard of lass, delay and line from Chinting to Fungtai is ander the damage. "We have repeatedly urged the control of the French, and, from Fungtai to authorities," conilaues the Tokio journal, "to Peking, under charge of the British; so there take steps to stop this evil and bring the opera. will be a change of carriages at the junction.tion of the service to the pitch of perfection The French have pointed out that the shortest route is to proceed by their line direct to Pek- ing, An 1 enter by the West gate. But the Court has decided to follow the unbroken custom and enter by the front gate, thus hoping to avoid seeing the destruction that has been made by the allied forces. The Court, it is said, will not accept any free passage, but will insist upon paying.
LAWSUITS.
The Judicial Department of the T. P. G. has, doring last week, been fully employed with the settlement of Civil cases, at which lawyers have appeared, in one case no less than three, two on one side, and one on the other. The cases have involved large issues.
NEW BUILDINGS
The Chinese houses lately and now being erected in the French Concession are a vast improvement on the "mean streets" of former days. The houses are now uniform and the roads wide. French town will presently offer a very handsome appearance. ̧”
YUAN SHI-KAL
The native papers more steadily incline to the view that Yuan Shi-kai will be the Viceroy of hihi. A ielegram to a native paper states that the smaller officials left Hsian in the 4th, the higher officials on the 5th and
the Court on the 6th. The hire of carts elc. has gone up considerably.
TO MEET THE COURT, The provinces around Honan and Shensi are
required to send officials to meet the Court in onan. So Chang Chi-tung and Yoan Shi-kai will be there, but not Liu Kun-yi, 'He applied for leave, but for a two-fold reason, it was not sanctioned. He was too old for travel, and his post is too important for him to leave it.
BUILDING REGULATIONS.. The Provisional Government has issued 'a
proclamation intimating that any one wishing to build must first apply for permission, other wise the material is liable to be confiscated, This is an old rule, and we imagine that some people have been violating it, and thus neces:
itated the issue of another proclamation.
usclean.
SQUEEZE.
that the system employed should secure; but so far without result. The incapacity of the authorities is surprising. Apart from the incon- venience and annoyance caused to the public in this country, the matter is one which injures the reputation of Japan abroad. It is absurd to boast of the perfection of the system while it is so loosely controlled. But even this
is not the worst. Some excuse might perhaps be found for the loss, damage or delay of
THE LOSS OF THE "TSURUHIKO | mail matter, but what excuse cia be offered
MARU."
The following is from the Nagasakt. Press of the 16th inst. :- .
Full particulars relating to the wreck of the Tsuruhike Maru ate not to hand as yet. We learn, however, that on Sunday, morning the iwo torpedo destroyers Murakusno and. Usui.
gumo, dispatched by the Sasebo. Admiralty authorities, left Gato for the scene of the disaster at 5.30 am. The wrecked steamer was pur- chased in America by Messrs. Okuragumi and she arrived at Yokohama in March, 1900. Her capacity in 3,500 tong, and her cost was about 150,000 yen.
She took in her cargo, consisting of engines, train-cats, and sleepers for the Formosan Rail- way, at Kobe on the 4th inst, and sailed from that port at 2.30 p.m. on the same date, reach-, ing Moji at 4 pm. the following afternoon, where she took in ago tons of coal consigned by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and another 250 tons for bunkers, She then left Moji. för Taiwan.
for the well-known fact that the post-office staff open and inspect for their own pleasure the matter sent through the mall? They may not venture to open sealed letters, but books, newspapers and manuscripts sent in open covers are freely examined, this to some extent explaining the delay and loss of such matter. What makes thing worse is that particularly interesting magazines are taken home by the staff for perusal before being delivered. Al though these books and magalnes are sent in open cavers, the post-office staff have no right to open them, much less taks them home for perusal at their leisure. There is no pro spect of these evils being corrected On the contrary, they show signs of increasing, and the matter is one calling for the immediate
attention of the authorities,"
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