Governor-General of Shensi and Kansuh requests that a votive tablet may be placed, in the temple of a certain deity in Ch'ing-yang Fu, in Kansuh, in order to gratify the wishes of the people who are anxious to testify their reverence for the deity in question. Last spring, when the prefecture was overrun with refugees from other parts, and when the prospect of a harvest was very gloomy, the Prefect, at the request of the inhabitants, headed a procession of the gentry of the place, who went to pray for rain at a temple in the hills to the North of the city. Here they remained seven days and nights, when abundant rain fell, and continued at intervals for month. "The popular anxiety was at once relieved, and in their gratitude the inhabit ants have entreated the Prefect to apply for a votive tablet to be placed in the temple, a request which the Governor-General endorses, February 2nd and 3rd.—(1) The Presi ent of the Board of Punishments, in obedience to a Decree previously published, reports upon the services of Wong Teng: kwei, a Seoretary in the Board, who had been declared by the Censor Chang P'eilun to have been pushed on through favouritism and in disregard of the 3 tions of the service. The President of the Board explains that the regulations have in no wise been ignored, and that, so far as his fitness for the post is concerned, Wong Tsdng-kwei has, during the time he has been employed in the Board, shown himself eminently qualified to discharge the duties of his office.
(2) The Governor of the Metropolitan Prefecture requests that 300 tan of rice may be annually supplied to a benevolent institution in Peking known as the Taiishan-tiang (se HE YH), where over a thousand poor people are taken in and cared for during the winter. The place has hitherto been supported by voluntary contributions, and by an annual grant of Tls. 500 given by the Tsung-li Yamen out of the tonnage dues (OG), but the increasing number of applicants for relief makes it necessary for the managers to make an appeal to the Imperial bounty.
February 4th and Sth.—(1) A. Deere Imperial regrets are expressed on receipt of the intelligence of the death of Liu Tien (QD) HI), late assistant Administrator of Military Affaire in Kansuh. It is ordered that the same honours be done him as in the case of a Vice-President of a Board. His son Liu Pen-chien is promoted to be a Prefect, and the second son, Liu Péu-tse, to be an assistant Secretary of a Board.
(2) The Censor Lou Yi-chin denounces his colleague Ying Chen for conniving at frauds committed by the officials employed in the grain department. The two above-named Censors had been deputed to super-Intend the delivery of the tribute rice last yea:, when to his intense astonishment Lou Yirchin discovered that his colleague was accepting bribes to connive at the short delivery of grain. The Censor fears that there may be others implicated in this business, and requests that a searching enquiry be ordered.
(8) The Governor of Honan recommends the present Prefect of Kwei-te Fu, Ts'ai Keng-liang GRD by name, as the official best qualified to fill the post of Prefect of K'ai-feng Fu, lately become vacant, (4) Tso Tauns-tang reports that the Yamen of the Brigadier-General of Liang-chow in Kansuh was partially destroyed by fire in October last. The seal and the archives fortunately were saved. In compliance with the regulation, the Brigadier
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