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The China Mail correspondent writes :The Viceroy's official days are numbered, and no one will mourn his departure. We will follow him with our blessing if that will hasten his departure, but even our blessing will be modified with the Irishman's wish that it may never overtakeihim. He offended officials by keeping them waiting several hours, and he has treated in the same way the foreign Vice-Consuls. The Freuch Consul he refuses to see at all. Orders have been received from Peking to open the South Peach, but the Viceroy refuses to do so. The Chinese attribute the disastrous floods of last year to the blocking up of the river, and asthat was done to keep out the hated barbarian, the barbarian is regarded as the cause of their troubles, and detested accordingly. Another item against the Viceroy is that he refuses to pay the troops guarding Shameen.We are glad to note fresh indications that the further development of mining industries in the Kwangtung Province will not be long delayed. The last intelligence received on the subject is thatsulphur has been found in abundance in the Lienehowdistrict, some 200 miles north of Canton. Specimens brought to Cauton show the sulphur to be of superior quality, and some of it has already been used in the manufacture of gunpowder. We hear that a company has been formed to work the sulphur mines. It has been long known that Lienehow is one of the districts rich in minerals, especially in coal.From the robbers of Canton it would seem that no place is sacred. The Shing Wong Miu or Temple of the Tutelary God of Walled Cities is situated on one of the busiest thoroughfares of the old city in the 'very heart of Canton and in close proximity to the French Consul's Yamen. This sacred edifice has lately been the scene of a daring robbery. On the second night of the new year a number of armed men entered the precincts of the temple and surrounded the temple keeper and his assistants, whom they threatened with knives and terrified into silence. Then while some kept; guard others proceeded to open the boxes in which money and other valuables are kept, and took plunder amounting to more than $300 in money alone. All the robbers made good their escape.The new Boundary Commission has been made a pretence for arising in opposition to the Government. It is reported that near to Nam Ning, iu Kwaug-Sai, a number of robbers and desperate characters banded themselves together under a leader jind raised the flao- of revolt, giving out that they, were enemies to theFrench'! They proceeded to stir up the people by declaring thatthe Government had ceded to France part of the territory of China. The rising, the object of which was rapine, was promptlysuppressed by the military.
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London and China Telegraph
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Apr 06, 1886
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