ABSTRACT OF PEKING GAZETTES, May Ist. (1), In addition to the usual list of presentations, applications for leave from duty, ect., it is recorded that Ngnling having committed a breach of etiquette in introducing to audience, requests. that a penalty be adjudged against himself.
(2), Suilien, Military Governor of Joh-ho, applies for the deprivation of office ofa District Mayistrato who has obtained his preferment by false personation, It appears that an individual named Chao-Yung-chen, otherwise called Chao K'i-hung, is the son of a former incumbent of a Magistracy in Kiang-si, where he purchased a grade of nominal literary rank, after which, in return for certain contributions
become a Profeot's Assistant in Shantung, itary funds, he was permitted to In 1868, after living for some years in retirement, he took the new name of Chao K'i-hung, and got himself employed a clerk ina Government office, Obtaining successive recommendations, he managed to rise through various minor tivular grades to the rank of expectant Magistrate, but all in his old name of Chay Yung-chen, In 1871 he resigned his {in 1873 he gained his' substantive advance-clerkship under the, alias he bore, and
ment to the Magistrate's Having been detected in these subterfuges, he is not a man to be entrusted with a position of authority, and the Military Governor consequently lays the matter before the Throne.—Rescript: Let Chiao Yung-chen, alias Chao K'i-hung, be forthwith deprived of his rauk, Let the Board of Civil Office take note.
May 2.—The Censors of the Western division of Peking memorialize, reporting, a case of suicide involving a criminal charge. It was reported to them on the Sist March, by a woman named Chang Whang-she, that her aunt by marriage, Wang Liu-she, had cut her throat, whereupon' an official was despatched together with the examiner of corpses and a female nurse, to hold an inquest on the body of the deceased. The evidence taken is to the effect that Wang Liu-she had a daughter named Lin Urh, aged 17, whom, a week before the suicide
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