Juno 10th.—(1) A Decree. Fu Chén-pang reports that an officer on postal service duty finds the climate does not agree with him and applies for permission to return to the capital to do duty. Tu-shih-kon is not far distant from Peking, and Ch'i Pao, Secretary of the Mongolian Superintendency, who is in charge of the postal service at that place, clearly manifests a lazy disposition and a love of ease in abruptly applying for permission to relinquish his duties on the pretext that the climate does not agree with him, Let Ch'i Pao at once vacate his post and return to the Banner to which he belongs, His application for leave to return to duty at his yamen is not sanctioned. The Mongolian Superintendency will, in accordance with statute, select an officer to replace Ch'i Pao in the office of Superintendent of the postal service.
(2) Memorial from the Governor of Uliasut'ai and the Assistant Governor of Kobdo reporting the robbery of the Imperial Treasury at the latter place and the arrest of the guilty parties. The Secre in charge of the Grain Department had reported to memorialists that a hole having been discovered in the back wall of the 'Treasury during the month of March last, an inspection was at once made, and it was found that three large ingots of silver with fifteen small ones, as well as five pearls, were missing, the weight of the whole' being altogether three hundred ounces. Memorialist was filled with uncontrollable astonishment upon receipt of this intelligence, and at once went himself to inspect the place, when he found that the robbery had sandoubtedly occurred. The soldier on duty as watchman, Lin Ju-hai by name, was at once sent for,'as_well as Yen Chin-fu, a soldier who lidd been given a lodging with him, and interrogated. Lin Ju-hai stated that had served as a cavalry soldier at Tu-shih-kou, but he had changed his troop and been transferred to K'obdo in 1875, where he was placed on duty as a watchman over the Treasury. One day in the middle of March he met Liu Chin-fu, an old friend, at the door of his watch house, who asked him to let him be his substitute. This he refused, but allowed him come and live inthe watch house, Two days later, Lin Ju-hai went outside the town to look for someone, and deputed Yen to look after his work for him. Being unable to get into the town that night he returned the following morning, when Yen informed him with much trepidation that some thieves had made a hole in the back wall, of the treasury on the previous night. This story having been Verided on faspoction, Lin Tu-bai 46 once reported the fact. The evidence of Yen Chin-fu was next taken and agreed with Lin's, while the testimony of neither could be shaken under repeated and rigorous examination. They were accordingly locked up, and circular instructions for the arrest of the guilty parties were just about to be issued when the Sub-prefect in change of the streets and markets reported that a Russian trading in Kobdo had come to his office and informed him privately that a man had
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