March 2nd-3rd.—Li Hung-chang, Governor-General of Chihli, memorializes recommending for honours and rewards the officers engaged under his direction last year, in superintending the construction of new embankment works on a portion of the course of the Yellow River. The portion in question is on the south bank of the river, in the Tung-ning district, where the work' previously accomplished by means of forty or fifty chang of the face of the works were swept away. Thanks to active exertions on the part of the persons in charge, however, labouring day and night, the damage was repaired.—Lists of the officials and notables on whose behalf rewards are solicited for the services rendered in this connection are enclosed.- Rescript: Let the Boards concerned consider and report to Us. The lists are forwarded to them herewith, March 4th.—No documents of importance.
March 5th.—(Abstracts of Memorials.) Yang Ch'ang-stin, Governor of Chehkiang, memorializes reporting the receipts from the likin tax.—Reseript: Let the Board of Revenue take note; the return is forwarded herewith, Also;—reporting the expenditure on the sea wall on the west side (of Hangchow Bay.)—Rescript: Let the Boards concerned take note.—The acting Governor of Shangtung, Li Yitan-hwa, memorializes reporting the expenditure on the Yellow River and Grand Canal. works,—Rescript: Let the Boards concerned consider and report; the return is forwarded herewith. In the memorial the name of an officer is most improperly written as "Colonel Chang ang with the addition of his cognomen. Fu-tsiang (instead of "the Colonel, Chan, Let the name of Li Yuan-hwa be bande to the Board for the adjudication of a penalty.
(1) A Decree, Let Sich Yun-sheng the labour of the country-people was a mere outline of what was necessary, and BEAL Ff succeed to the post of Taotai requiring reconstruction on a larger and more substantial scale, the earth needing to of the Ch'éng-Mien-Lung-Mow Intendancy in Szech'w: be rammed down into a solid condition, before it could assume a proper and durable (2) The Governor-General Shen Pao-form. The undertaking being one of such cheng and the Governor of Kiangsu jointly magnitude, whilst the people could not be memorialize on receipt of an application required a second time to devote themselves from the Taotai at Shanghai, Feng Tstin to the work, and no funds being available kevang, who states as follows:—His father, for the purpose in the public treasury, the Feng Yih-hong by name, an expectant only alternative was to make use of the District Magistrate, having been sentenced services of the soldiery. The Governor-in consequence of certain proceedings to banishment in Sungaria, the Taotai, with appointed General Liu Sheng-hin, at the General, accordingly, in, February, 1870, head of fourteen ying (of about 500 men companied his father in 1858 to his younger brother; Feng) Yilwang, acthe each) of Southern troops; and three Bri place of his banishment. After arri ving diers of the provincial forces, with six ying there, he was commanded by his father under their command, to proceed to the to retwen to Peking to compete at the tri-spot. where the works were required, ential examination; and in 1859 he volun-and to set about the construction of the teered for service with the army, when embankment. The site of the works is the Into Grand Secretary Tseng Kwoh-fan a river-flat, formerly overflowed, the soil of appointed him to do duty in his office. which is loose sand, and in certain parts of In 1861 he received letters informing him which water was still lying. The energy of the death of his father while undergoing displayed by the troops overcome, however, banishment, upon which he at once made all obstacles, the men working' with the official report of his being placed in utmost zeal under the indefatigable superin-mourning, and of his being about to go beyond the Great Wall to take o} tendence of their officers, so that by the middle of May, the undertaking was of his parent's remains. The regular roads complete. The embankment was upwards of being, however, impeded, he went by sea sixty [i in length, 30 chang (say 50 fect) wide to Tientsin, and thence by way of Chihli at the top, and 100 chang at bottom, with and Shansi into Mongolia, via Kwei-hwa height of one chang fourcl'ih. At every Ch'éng. Having reached' the neighbour-10 chang distance a hillock of earth +t hood of Ku-cheng by the month of August, he found the roads blocked owing to (for use in effecting repairs on emergency) the Mahommedan outbreak, and in view was placed, these hillocks numbering 1,091 of the impossibility of obtaining means mall. After the completion of the embank-of subsistence on the steppe and in the dement, the necessary vigilance was employed sert of Gobi, he was obliged to turn back by the proper officials in watching over its safety; and on successive occasions during appointed by H.E. Li Hung-chang to the without eflecting his purpose. After being the summer and autumn, viz., on the 6th post of Superintendent of the Arsenal at and 22nd August, the 9th and'29th Sept., Shatighai, he was named in 1874 to fill the and the 15th and 18th October, the river rose office of Taotai at Shanghai. The thought with great violence, spreading its waters beyond the ordinary channne, and reach-that his father's remains still lie at Ili, and that nothing is known as to the fate of his ing a height of from five to eight ch'th stepmother and his younger brother, has alongside the embankment, Tic scour caused by the rush of waters was so great, and his filial emotions have prompted him, continued to oppress him by day and night that numbers of the protecting greyness on learning by the Gazette that Urumtsi were swept away, and the embankment and Manas have been recaptured, to beg that itself was placed in imminent danger. The leave be obtained for him to resign his office exertions of the officials, soldiery, and in order that he may proceed to Ili to recover labourers in charge of the works alone and bring back the remains of his deceased wye averted a catastrophe.
During a violent father. The high authorities, in forwarding storm, indeed, on 19th Oct., the whole force this application, commend the Taotai for of the current, lashed into violent waves, the satisfactory discharge of his duty in was directed against the embankment, and responsible post, and request that in liew
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