—(1) A decree exempting ery of the pas jason at Pung Chow, Liu Oi'wan-k'i, th meant of the provinces of riga and Anhwei, who had b criminated on this account by the C Ki have memorialised representing Kung Stan. The high authorities of
delay was occusiviied by want of 1 the Grand Canal and not by ol'dng, found guilty of the murder of three roons of one family. 'The accused was a lirer employed by farmer named Sung Hwarlin, who, with his two sons, hast treated him horallly in' com quence of hia wud had withheld his er at this troatment the Lipoti taking'the li 6 youn a thin design he curried i on night in July last, when intima wore slesping"in the courtyard near their atuble, He hacked them to death mith: a" chop) d was shortly afterwards apprehended. In conformity with the law in auch cuss made' and provided, he has' been sentenced to ouffer death by and this tenced, in consequence of his parent's heinous crime, to be transported to one of 0 farthest frontiers of the Empil 190 of not use than 4,000 (6 from the scone of the offence, and: branded with tire characters ing the fact of the the murderer's wife ports funds to the military chest of the army of the Wentern front io 18 amount of 'Tavle 190,000 had already heretofore been forwarded on account of the monthly trances ordered for the troops serving General Kin Shun, and another of ada £0,000 had' wise been sent forward since Kin Shu Ath, 1875.) The provincial treasury hus*furthermore made good to the Board of Revenue m_of Taole 120,000, which had been advanced by the Board to King- tary chest, The heavy demande upon the provincial Kxchequer for a variety of public purposes have Teduced it to great straits, but, in the f affaire with the arn which i fully 30,000 was despatched from the provincial capital on the 7th Novewbec
in the fil for delivery at Kin Shun's head-quartera "Deo, 30th.—(1) The Governor-General and Govertior-at Canton report the suppression of an incipient seditious movement, Information had already been received of s plot to organise a rising in istrict of Kwei-shan-(on the East River), and the local authorities had been ordered to make search for the parties concerned mit, when am inal Kwei-shan District, named Yon Sheng; came forward spontaneously, delivering up his oon Yen Ino-are, to lodge informa tion, Six men were apprehended in conse-ace in the Kwei-shan district, anid another of the confederates, w person x form of oath was discovered, was captured in the Ta'ing-yuan district (on the North Ri imi i placed on tri teng, confessed that he was ana Kiangsi, who had for'some time past been gaining' living as a fortune-teller in Kerangtung. In the month of October, jeu in at diffe prisoners, and aft they had conversed together about needy condition, he had proposed to them under conditions of secrecy that they should raise the flag of themselves to the commission of acts of 'They all agreed to this, and, direction, each man wrote out of oath, to be' burnt as aw h contained a sentence When the year yi-hai (1875) comes t Work will be done." The confederates then sep each to raise " band of followers, agreeing that they should fix a time in the Sed moon of the following year to accomplish rising, As Vu Teli-meng was acquainted with Yeu Lao-cze, "man of considerable substance, hie appointed th own consent, to be "pu and rice." The different confederates ch band varying in from some acores to upwards of a hundred strong, and, the intending revolters had bled in an out-of-the-way spot of the istrict to commence their out-ey Jearnt that Yen Lao-sz0 n up to the authorities by his The band then d, and the now arraigned w sequently Yi Teh-meng and four other of been conapicacies. A prison, Four of enced ton penalty one degree more lenient, viz., to undergo one hundred blows and' bau ment to a distance of 3,000 li, with th proviso that, pending the possibility of transporting them to Sungarin to be prison, ie in to be either ven to the aald ey be
given up to control, or, should hi charge, to be committed to dete ing Kwoh-ts'iian, newly appointed post of Governor of Shans treating leave to resign hi smorialiaed leave to ground of ill-he He has
Hankow, before going to hi the purpose of conauiting a there, in reply to which application he was favoured with one montl's congo. Lih ow to represent that his constitution seriously weakened by illness, and by the hardships of the campaigns on which he served under his brother, the late, Tsing Kwoh-fu. "On these occasions, he always, led in the hour of battle, was he 8 than two or three bom shots Seven times he d his clothing has been drenched with pints of his own blood. The climate at K'ai-feng Fu, in his late Director General of the has not agreed with him, been so much reduced by months at the least would be requisite to restore him to a condition in which he could hop. adequately to discharge the duties of his new post.. For this reason he feels bound to ask leave to retire, until such time as he may again feel capable of slewing Joyalty by prostrating himself in the dust before the Palace gates and avliciting reéimployment.—In reply, a rescript haw been issued, granting two months additional congo.
Dec. 3ist.—(1) A decree in reply to memorial from the Governor of Hunan, who has reported that an ex-Superintendent of Instruction, who had been dismissed the public service for some offence, had entered. at the recent provincial exa: ninations as graduate of an inferior class, and had succeeded in parsing for the Kijén degree. 'The fraud having been discovered, ordered that the decree be cancel the offender brought to trial and punished' according to lai (2) A Decree, 'The Colonel nominated the Pao-king command in Hunan, Fub-kien by name, who was yesterday presented in audience, being " person of very ordinary and inefficient stamp, We command that he do return' to th do duty. authorities reporting the trial and pnnish=- tot an official in charge of the likin station' at Lupao (at the mouth of the North River), for negligence in failing to detect the malpractices of a clerk who had'
of 8 worn-out pair of' seal and false weights in the receipt of p ments, and who was also guilty of unauthorised ly disposing "of a parcel of confisented drugs and bestowing the: proceeds in rewards upon the underlings euiployed at the tax-ofice. The receipts the office between the 25th April and the 2th July, 1876, were Tuels 39,160.9.1.8., ineludit in excess of the proper ig to Tls. 97.9.2. Theoffend=: enced "to the penalty of' 100 blows and banishment for three years,' mith one month in the cangue superadded. The official found guilty of negligence has roeded. rials from Li Ho-nien, rez sumed the seal of porting handed over charge, sang Kwoh-te'tinn,
of the Director Generalship of the Yellow: River, on the Lith Tan. Ist. (1) The high authorities of Kiangeu memorinli it obedience to commands rec officials who have distingn in the operate banditti known as the Fuh Fei or Turban Brigands. An ontbronk of 0 lawless depredators took place in lant in the Hai-chow Prefecture in i which was. apoedil LIB ofanumber their followers, are submitted to the Throne.
(2) Shen Pao-cheng, Governor-General of the two Kiang provinces, memorial forwarding a representation on ti creased cost of camphorwood timbers required for the construction of man-of-war junks at the two building yarde of Nanking and Wu-ch'éng (in the' Poyang Lake.) In reply to a previous' statement to the same effect, the Board of Works had written declining to recognize any increas in the charge for material in excess of rates sanctioned in 1809 The official concerned have now once more represented that the supply of camphor-wood has fallen off of late years, and must needs be brought from increasingly greater distances, The population from among whom the timber is procured, moreover, is influenced to so great an extent by the ting shui superstition, that large offers a necessary to: induce them to come forward with supplies, Another reason which contributes to the enhancement of prices, especially at Nanking, la that the late Governor of Kiangsi, Liu Kw'én-yih, obtained sanction to a proposal he made in 1872 that no exemptions from likin
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