'May 8th.—(1) Memorial from T'a Tsung-ying, Governor of Honan, requesting sano. tion for the expenditure' of Tis, 40,000 in the repair of the Mausoleum of Kuang Wu-(those accession is dated from A.D. &i, fast Emperor of the late Han dynasty 25,)
portion of which has been washed away by the Yellow River, as well as the Sai, or wall of the town of T'ich-hsieh, about a li distant from the Mausoleum. The damage was inspected some years ago by an officer deputed by the Governor, who constructed an embankment of stone to prevent further encroachment, This precaution, however, has been found to be insufficient, as the river is gradually washing the bank away, and has already carried off one wall of the town, while a third of the Mausoleum has gone. An expectant Taotai has lately been sent to inspect the place, as well as the Financial Commissioner, and the latter now reports that repairs are urgently needed, as delay will entail additional expense. Costly therefore as the undertaking will be, memorialist has thought it right not to allow himself to be tied down by formalities, and has directed the work to be put in hand at once [without waiting for His Majesty's sanction.]—Rescript: Noted.
[Note. appears to be a term applied to towns beneath the dignity of hsien that are surrounded by a mud wall, the entrance gates only being faced with brick (2) Postscript memorial from Sung K'uei, Imperial Resident at Lassa. The Chief Abbot Lobtsang Jungtien, formerly Prior of 'a lamaserai, having now recovered from his illness, and the Shang-shang, or Treasury, being in want of a man to conduct the various matters that come under this department, the officer in question, being a person of wide learning and experience in the conduct of official matters, was _unanimously selected by the whole of Tibet as the right person to be sent to make the necessary arrangements for the ceremony of enthronement [of the new pontiff.) The Resident had now been respectfully requested to move His Majesty to restore the old regime, and permit the abbot to fill the first vacancy of Kablon, or Councillor of State, that might fall vacant, or appoint him' assistant supernumerary "Kablon, as [his employment in cither capacity] would bbe of immense benefit to Tibetan interests. The memorialist would humbly observe that there used to be four Kablon, one of the appointments being reserved for members of. the Tibetan priesthood, but in the. reign of Chien Lung, as these latter were found to be incapable of conducting pointed General of the Kao-chow Brigade the duties of the post, the appointments in Kwangtung, for the purpose of cleanii were all given to members of the local his ancestral graves, has low expired, official body (F'EF.) The memorialist it is the intention of that officer to leave for his post, to which he will repair withi cannot venture to take upon himself to revert to the old hee and_ therefore all speed, on the 29th March. begs respectfully to lay the application he (8) Memorial from Shen Pao-cheng, has received before His Majesty, whose in-Governor-General of the two' Kiang Prostructions he humbly awaits. A translation vinces, submitting the arrangements he of this application is forwarded for the in-proposes to make in connection with formation of the Grand Council.—Rescript the resumption of the Canal, route for Let Lobtsang Jungtienactassuperm the conveyance of the winter instalment Kablon. Let the proper yamen take note. of the grain tribute for the Kiang-peh (8) Memorial from the same officer an-area, the restoration of the river trans-nouning that a date has been fixed by the port having been decided upon by the Shang-shang, of E, or Treasury, for received from the Grain Intendant Sung card. 'The following. report as' been the enthronement of the "incarnation"
Chuang:—'Tt having been determined to ('hubilhan) of the Dalai Lama, and request-send forward the grain tribute due this ing His Majesty's commands on the mat-season from Kiang-ning, Huai-an Yangter. The Dung-shan-chi-lung "Hut'ukht'u, chow, and T'ung-chow, officers were sent Awangpantiench'iichichientsan, the high to Kiang-peh, Anhwei, etc., to get in dignitary in charge of the Shang-shang or the various quota due, and others were Treasury, has respectfully represented that sent to Pao-ying and Fan-shui to estab-in reverent conformity with existing regula-lish agencies for the hire of boats, stowtion, the hubil'han, or réembodiment of the age of the rice as it arrived, ete., etc, Dalai Lama should be enthroned at the age The empty junks returning' from last of four years. The réembodiment-of the season's trip having been detained at the thirteenth generation of the Dalai Lama Wei River until last autumn, and some of having how attained the age of four years, them even then being unable to get. south, and being possessed of extraordinary the junkmen looked upon the service as a spirituality and intelligence that has aroused the most eager hopes and expectations of hard and embarrassing one, and the quence wag that the difficulty in kirin the clergy and laity, the spirits have now junks, already sufficiently great, was muc more so than in previous. years. By dint, manner, and Buddha has been solemnly been reverently appealed to in a special however, of much running about, persu: invoked [with a view to selecting a date sion, and exhortation, and the promise of the ceremony] by genuine and earnest extra liberality with a speedy return south:
tion. The result has shown that the ward, boats were at last got together, and only superlatively auspicious date is the it was arranged that all should be in readi~ Bist July, and it is accordingly proposed to ness to start by the end of the year, while go forth on this day to meet the réembodian engagement was entered into that the ment of the Dalai Lama and bring him to boats should be all loaded some time dur-Mount Potalé for enthronement, that the ing the 2nd moon. They were then to be hopes of all may be fulfilled. It was re-despatched in two fleets, each fleet consist-quested that this matter might be vicariously ing of five divisions. The object of effect~ represented in a reverent manner to His Majesty and the Imperial commands soliing an early start was to ensure timely arrival at Shantung, where they woul cited thereon. The memorialist would await the [spring] freshets before crossing humbly observe that the matter of the the Yellow River and proceeding north-enthronement of the Dalai Lama being The force of the, Yellow River regarded throughout Tibet as an auspicious freshets, on the Shantung frontier un-and glorious rite, it is necessary that extra fortunately varies, and there is lio certainty care and attention be shown. He humbly whatever that the waters of the Yellow awaits His Majesty's reply to the applica-River can be made to aid the entry of the tion of the Treasury. The Grand Council had the honor to receive the following junks along the Chang-chia reach. Of late years, owing to the diversion of the Rescript:—There will be a separate decree Yellow River northwards, the entrance at issued.
Pa-li-miao has been continually washed 'Note.—For a detailed account of the away, with the result that the mouth has selection and enthronement of the Dalai been narrowed and the passage is attended Lama, see.' Mayers' Chinese Government" with inconvenience. On the last occasion and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic upon which the sluice was opened to admit Society, Vol. IV, Part I, 1869.] the entry of the grain junks into the May 9th.—(1) The Governor-General of Canal, after only five and a half detach-Min-chih and the Governor of Fohkien ments had passed, the water fell so low report the arrival of forty-seven Lew-that the passage became obstructed. It chawans, the survivors of a party of fifty-was only after prompt and energetic three, whose vessel had been driven by dredging that the whole fleet succeeded in stress of weather on to the Kwangtung coast, reaching Lin-ching. The Tai-tsun sluice where they were rescued by a fishing craft is intended to dam up the water in the and taken to the Magistrate of the Nan-hai Wen River, a most important channel, and district (Canton.) m the depositions prevent its flow eastwards. This sluice of these men, taken through an interpreter, was carried away during the floods of last it was ascertained that they came from Pi summer and the Canal became so low in chung-shan, an island in the Lewchewan consequence that the fleet could not advance. group. They were returning in a small The old channel by the Shih-tai River has junk from Chung-shan Fu to their island long been obstructed, so that for many sea in November last, when they were caught sons past the junks have been obliged to in a squall and their vessel well-nigh make a detour by the Wei-shan and other capsized. They had to cut away their lakes. An estimate of the cost of dredging masts to save the boat, and were the Shih-tsu River in order to avoid the driven helplessly before the wind for twelve dangerous detour by way of the lakes, has days, when they found themselves off now been made, and the conclusion that has Nan-hai and fell in with a fishing boat that been arrived at is that the shallow portions rescued them. Six of their number had in Shantung and the breach at the Tai-tsun died on the road, and were buried where sluice should be set in order by the they died. One of the party was so ill that Shantung Government. This Government he had been left fora while at Hongkong should also be called upon to estimate and placed under medical treatment. These the expense of altering the Chang-ch'iu men will be sent to Lewchew when an sluice into the canal, and put the worl opportunity presents itself. in hand at once if feasible." In reply to (2) Shao Hong-vii, Governor of Hupeh, the Intendant's report, the memorialist has reports that the three months' congo that instructed him to get his boats loaded by a was granted to Yang Yuk', newly apcertain time and send them forward when
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