WU T'ING-FANG (PEKING), Minister of Board of Punishments; native of Kwangtung. Known also as Ng Choy; Barrister-at-law; acted as Magistrate at Hongkong for a time; Sec. to Li Hung Chang; Minister to United States, Spain and Peru, Nov., 1896; Sec., Board of Foreign Affairs, May, 1903; Vice-President, Board of Commerce, Sept., 1903; do., Board of Foreign Affairs, Dec., 1903; Minister of Board of Punishments, 1905-6; employed remodelling penal code,. 1906; applied for permission to resign, May, 1906, but permission refused; urged Throne to adopt trial by jury, 1906.