November 17th.—(1) A Memorial from ruer-General of the Hu Kuang Governor of Hupet reporting the levs of two out of a fleet of ten june Inden with copper destined for Poking. These junks, which were under the charge of an officer from a0, encountered a sudden squall of wind upon the 25th of July while pas: igh rapids of Huang Sang Tung in the Tung-hu District in Hupei, where it was impossible to come to an anchor, Que junk lost her mast and rudder and ran on to the rocks where she was shattered to pieces, and the other had s hole knocked in her bottom by the wreckage of the first junk which defied the efforts of the crow und others to stop, in a whirlpool some little the rapid. One junk had 51,800 vf copper on board, and the other 1 the waters ut the river are lower, i aken to recover the copper 1 of the Prefect of Let 6 of the Tang-lu District, Meanwlule the eight remainivy boats have hoon sent on, As the rapids known as the Huang Sang Tung are historically dau. gerous, and the perils Uney offer are referred to in statutory works, the accident was undoubtedly unavoidable under the circum:
wet ut the case and was not attributable carelessness on the part of the wei ida in chars (2) The Governor-General of the Hu passed upo' t with an hereditary title of nobility who was accused by an aggrieved husband of taking liberties With his wife.
The husband and. his father having dividual, whose name was in flagrant delicto, the is paramour then and there before the Magistrate. The statements of Chang Jung-t'ai being unset factory, application was made to the Thro for sanction to privation of noble rauk with a view to placing him formally ow his trial, This came on in due cour and the guilt of the parties having established, Chang Jung-t'ai has tenced to deprivation of his title and a hundred blows with the heavy bamboo without the option of redemption by a money payment. The guilty wife is to be exposed in the cangue for one month and to receive a hundred blows. She will be given back to hee husband to take a, into his home or not, a8 ho pleases AS the offence question was committed previous to the Act of Grace of the present year both parties will be absolved from the corporal punishment and exposure in the cangue to which they have been respec (3) The Governor of Sheng Ching reports the death from natural causes of an I perial Clansman while confined in the of imprisonment known as the "thigh wall" (E548) or "empty house" (ZEST) reserved fur offenders of that class. Ihe body was examined by a corpse inspector, and the brother of the deceased expressed Limaelf ready to certify that hia brother died from natural causes without going through the formality of an inquest.—Rescript: Let the Yamen concerned take cognisance.
November 18th (1) A Decree express His Majesty' latitude for the protect by the deity of the Yellow vin the ming District of Chilli, where the summer and autumn freshets have gone by without mishap in spite of the water reaching an abnormal height and accidents being constantly threatened.
Ten sticks of Tibetan incense are to be jor-General with instruc the 'T Heir Chi 0 take it to the temples of the River God at Kno T i Lien-chuang, and there reverently make offering thereof.
(2) A Decree announcing the result of an enquiry into the conduct of Kuei Hsiang, Imperial Agent a Urya, why was charged by a Censor with having been perverse and faulty in his administration and with haying extorted contributions from the people found that one of the charges completely broken dos, and that in ere levied, plying. cert for jo conduct of one of his tebunang cal crams, Wh raise tributions of brick tea, wud soned those who were behindhand with. payment, reflects variously upon the Agent, who had, moreover, never reported' the organisation of these subscriptions, though the attempt to raigs them had already been attended with success.
wil these points the action of Kuei Usiang was far from being satis and ed to thy Bod determin a painful on other of found not to November 19th,—Nu documents of importance.
November 2 the pay. fifty per cent of the ainu predeceasora ut by which native Customs receipts at that port have fallen short of the assessed revenue.
Th Board of Revewus wrote some time 10 the Metorialist to say that they suggested to His Majesty that the fticors responsible for the "elicit tive Customs receipts ut Ningpo year of Kuang Heir, amow 17,042, and also for the tenth year, amounting to 16,961, should be called upon to make good thirty per cent of these deficits, amounting to Tls. 5,112 and The. 4,018 respectively. They had also aug-gested to His Majesty that all officers responsible for repayment of short collections of Customs duties previous to the 3rd of November 1884 should be called upon to make good only half of the fifty per cent of these deficits which they were under ry to pay. To these sugard informed the Memori-fied approval, him accordingly: ai at Ningpo, Hotieh Fuch'éng, who is charge of the Che Hai Kuan, has wow reported that during the year ended 9h of August 1883 there were tite officers in charge of the Chekiang Maritime Customs, viz: Jui Chang, uow promoted, a Chung-han, now Tao-t'ai at! Wanchow. The total owing for the year, when reduced by seventy per cent, amounted to Tls. 3,712, which had further to be reduced by fifty per cent. leaving a balance due of Tls. 2,556. Of this sun Jui Chang was responsible for 1,136, which would be sent from Can-tov, where he is stationed; the balance of Tls. 1,420 had beer: sent to the Tav-tani With regard to the deficit on the collection for the year ended July 28th, 1884, this had to be collected from officers who. had charge of the Customs during that and from that period and from whom the following sums were due Deficit Tls. 16,961; seventy per cent. further reduction is, 2,459.
Wen Chung-han, amount due.
Jui Chang, Ma Pé-liang, Total 2,459 (sic) OF these amounts all have been paid with the exception of that due from Jui Chang, who has been written to to send the money forward.
November 2ist.—(Court Circular.)
paid his respects on his ret ital after visiting, hi pee hou, wer to a rep from the Imperial Equipage Depar'
complaining that there are large arrears of rents on lands.in Chilli clu that department, and requesting hat thers and the rents fur the present year winy be ordered to be paid promptly, as the Deport" ment was in urgent need of funds, Governor-Geuvral Li Hung-clang is me structed to see that these arrears a the present year's reuty are sent f ard in fall within the y 2) A Decrev acknowledging the receipt of the report of the Board of Revenue in answer to an application from the Governor of Shantuwy for permission to devote certain portion of the subsidy dae from that province to Peking for the relief of the sufferers by flood, Although relief has boon universally dis tributed ili the districts where the distress vails, the winter season has now a the poverty-stricken people have yeans of earning their livelihood, 50,000 is therefore allowed to the lund hantuny to be t the sufferers, (3) La Fuclin, Governor of Shensi, reports that he reached Heian Fu ow the of October, and took over charge feom Pien Pao-cliftian on the 20th of October.
(4) Ting Pao-cheng, Governor-General of Szechuen, applies for and is granted forty days! leave from work in order to reeruithishontty which fas been failing of ate, He saya he has been a soldier for 17 or the exposure has tuid upon Thanks to hin strony constivuable to shake elf attacks with which he is tantly seized, but two yerrs ago had a rheumatic fever which laid him for forty days, Although the mptoms eventually disappeared his constitution was considerable and a certain weakness mained, necessitating support when moving. The difficulties and troubles of the time were such that he made an effort to bear up against his maladies, but during the conduct of the recent examinations he was suddenly seized with paralytic symp.
hich compel him to ask for forly days' rest from his work in order to under go medical treatment.
November 22ud.—(1) A Decree ordering the issue of an additional two months' pay and rations to the unemployed Liaperial Ciansmen and Gioro, or collateral relatives of the Imperial House, in view of the cold, season low approaching. A grant of an additional month's pay and ex tions is also made to the widows of the above classes over and above the one month's pay and rations they already rect
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