March 24th.—The only document of importance in this day's Gazette is a short memorial from Chou Hong-chi, Governor of Shantung, reporting that he has expended during the past. year Tls. 37,000 in the purchase of copper caps and other munitions of war from Tientsin.
March 25th.—A list of appointments to the post of Oficer of Instruction, and a long memorial from the Governor of Hupeh, reporting in detail the circumstances of two burglaries in the On-yang District, of documents published in this day's issue. with two formal report complete the list
Ching, Governor-General of March 26th.—(1) Memo mitting a list of the salaries, anti-extortion allowances, and contingent allowances he
in the Tai-pei-fu Prefecture of to allot to the new pa recently Taiwan. The total of these salaries and allowances accounts to Tls. 10,617, Tls. 4,424 of which th taxes are insufficient for the present to meet. He proposes therefore to apply certain economies effected in other branches of expenditure to meet this (2) Memorial from Ch'i An, Governor of Shengking, and his colleague Sung Lin, reporting the date of the despatch to Peking, of the papers and witnesses connected with the case of the murder of an official and his son at Moukden, and the suspicious death of the supposed murderer in prison. He proposes to send th under charge of certain expectant officials, who will leave Moukden on the Ist of March.
(8) The same officer, in a postscript memorial, embodies a report from the Magistrate of Ch'éng-te Hsien, to the effect that owing to the inability of the officers ravionsly. sant to inspect the body of Li ung-chih, the supposed murderer of the official referred to in the foregoing memorial, to discover the cause of death, it had been placed"in a coffin. The Magistrate felt it his duty to state that the length of time that had already elapsed, and the approaching warm weather would very rapid, and he begged for instruct advance the decomposition of the body as to what he should do, The memorial reminds His Majesty that on receipt of this application he had deputed an officer to hold a second inquest, and had written to the Board of Punishments at Moukden to associate an officer with his deputy, but that they had declined to do so as the; Majesty. memorialist had therefore had already referred the case to His
adopted the same course, and a decree was issued ordering the transfer of the case to Peking. As the second inquest has not been held, no report of the of the body has yet been prepared, and as the approaching warm weather will hasten decomposition, the memorialist would beg His Majesty to direct the Board of Punishments to come promptly to a decision as to what they wish to have done.—Rescript. We have perused the memorial.
(4) Memorial from the Governor of Ché- "Kiang, reporting the total amount of the tribute rice that is go forward as last year's subsidy from three prefectures of Hangchow, Kia-hing and Hu-chow, exclusive of abatements on account of drought and damage caused by locusts. The total in piculs'is 507,500, which, although short of the assessment, is in excess of last year's remittance by piculs 89,800.
March 27th.—(1) A decree. Tsing Kuoch'tian prays for sanction to the erection
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