Fine cotton clot 2,000 Officers have been deputed to convey the above articles to the Ellice of the Imperial Household.
November 15th.—Court Circoular. The Grand Seoreteriat presented a congratulas tory address to Hor Majesty (whose birthday is 20ch November), (1) The following promotions are gae zatted:—Ho-pao Ge] ') to be Secretary:
ico of Transmission; Hung-kuei e=3 3) to be Senior Deputy Supervisor of Instruction; En-ching to be Junior Deputy Supervisor; Yang I BAD to be Senior Assistant Secretary; and Liu Hai-ao (ZA) AFAR) to be Junior Assistant Secretary.
(2) Postscript Memorial from Weéu-Governor of Tsitsihar, he object of the annual winter hunting in Csitsihar is to accustom the troops to enduring hardships, and the horses to rapid movement, and to practise the men in musketry and archery, is an institution for military purposes, The land about Hu-lan-thing has lately begun to be cultivated, and not only are the movements of the troops hindered by the network of raised: paths, but the game also had been frightened away by the vile lagers. The Memorialist, therefore, pro-have the men exercised at ung enclosed park to the south of the Suiléngo Mountain, The Deputy Lieutenant-General in charge will thus be enabled to detect any unauthorised attempts to cultivate the laud about the park,—Resoript Noted.
(8) Kuei-ang, Brigade General at Ma-reports starting on a tour of inspection of the neighbourhood of the Hou Lung Hill ($F). The hilt protected from grass fires by two trenches QR) the outer 230 13 long and 20 chang wide, the inner 85 li long and 30 chang wide. Every year about the White Dew term (8th Sept.) the guards should' cut down any grass growing within these trenches and keep them bare of vegetation, In 1870 it was decided that the Brigade General or the Major of his battalion should inspect the trenches and the guard. houses every year. Itis now the list's turn to go, aud he proposes to start on rd October with a small retinwe,—Re-
(4) Wa Ta-ch'éng, Director of the Court vf the Imperial Stud, superintending the nizations and of a civil administration Fequents that Hu Chuan, Seudies, may be made a District Magistrate and retained in Kirin,
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