days. At Nan-ning entered and in twelve more days Lung-chow is ranched, two days beyond which is Chen-nan-kuan, the frou-tier gate. Liang-allan (Lavgson) is reached in one day from Chen-uau-kuan, and from id thence to Pfing-ch ich lis, where the officer in question is supposed to have gone, is over eve hundred fi. The journey would thus take over forty days altogether, and the officer in question took twenty days less to do it in, in which time the Memorialist maintains that he could not even have reached the frontier gate. Had he gone by land he would have done little better, for the road is for the most part very uneven, Thoroad journey is divided days by road, kuei, Yung-fu, Ming-ying, Ma-ping Lai-in,' Chéien-chiang, Shang-lin and Pin how. There are certain steep places on the road, too, where the traveller cannot be carried, but has to go on foot clinging to the side of a precipice. 'Then again therein the K'un-Lun pass to be surmounted, hich is historically bad; so bad indeed is the whole road that porters and horses have to be changed every few days, and it is impossible to travel with any' speed. From Naw-ning Fu to Hsin-ning Chow is 130 li, to Ch'ung-chan another 120 li and to Lung-chow 180, and the journey takes five days, Qu cuusulting the Imperial rialist finds that. the itinerary there given of the journey into Aunam gives the follow. route: from Lung-chow (in Kuangei) to Being-éth Tai one day, to Ch'i-yuan Chow one day, to Wéu-lan and P'ing-chieh-sie two days. Thus under the most favourable conditions of. weather and with stoppages, it would take twenty-four days get to. P'ing-chieh-she, and yet the officer in question did it in twenty-one, while what is still more remarkable is that he should have been able to divine the exact day that the rebels would arrive, and that he should just in for the slaughter. province by decree earlier issued.
July 17th.—() K'un Kan (Minister of the Teung-li Yamen), is appointed Deputy Superintendent of Customs and Octroi at Peking.
(2) A Memorial from Hsii Shu-ming, Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, requesting His Majesty to direct the Governor-General of Chili and the Governor of the Metropolitan Prefecture to consider some mean of securing the population of forty-eight villages in the Hsien district in Chilli. Last year the inhabi-toute of these villages formed the bulk of the applicants for relief at the Government relief agencies, and from their account it would appear that the country occupied by the villages in question lies between two rivers, the Tzu-ya river on the east, and the Ku-yang river on thi. While these rivers keep to their respective ch all goes well, but two years ago a certain expectant Taotai cut a canal at right angles to these rivers, the northern bank of which canal was raised considerably, and blocked the Ku-yang river with the object of leading the waters of that river through the new canal into the Tzu-ya river, the result being whole of the country in question merged. After the heavy rain last summer there was a varying depth al over of from 7 feet to 16 causing incalculable damage to property and great loss of life. Boats laden with rice were sent to the relief of the people who were picked off from the roofs of the houses and the branches of treys where they had climbed for safety.
(3) A Memorial from Ch'ing Ya, Governor of Sheng-king, reporting that he has taken stock of the gold and silver sacrificial musils and other articles deposited in the three Mausolea at Moukden, and has found that the articles in stock correspond with' the numbers on the register. The robes also are complete and in good order. He has not ventured to touch the ten boxes containing Portraits of the Sacred Countenances of ten generations nor the four boxes containing(?) 1tbeing customary for these to re\ tly aired every autuiin upon an spacious day to be selected by the Office of the Imperial Household, the Memorialist will when the time arrives reverently Kneel down and open them. He has inspected the bows, arrows, swords, armotc and saddlery of the Sacred Ancestry, and found them to be all in due order.
(4) The Superintendent of Customs at Sha-hu K'ow on retiring from ofice at the expiration of his term reports that: the total collection during his year of office has been Tls. 34,733. 2 July 18th.—(1, 2 & 3) Decross announcing the results of enquiries instituted by the Governor-General at Canton into a number of charges brought by the Censor Teng Ch'eng-hsin against certain officials in that province whom he accused of peculation and other vices; also against the class of official secretaries in general. Although the Governor-General tinds that the charges brought by the Censor are for the most part incorrect, his enquiries have brought certain irregularities or incapacity on the part of various minor officials to Tight, and a number of these are sentenced in the decree to punishments varying from dismissal to the infliction of a nominal
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