(2)—The Governor-General Li Hung-chang reports that an expectant official in Shantung has contributed the sum of Tls. 10,000 to the Chihli relief fund. This money represents the value of the wearing apparel and jewellery of a lady who died the year before last, and had directed that her property should be sold, and the proceeds de-
Voted to the relief of distress. The lady in Trotai in Shansi, the oticer who has tes question was the niece of an expectant of her filial piety in her girlhood by clitting mitted the money. She had given proof flesh front her arm and mixing it with the medicine given to her sick mother. She was afterwards married to a man called Liu, to whom she was a good and faithful wife, and the Memorialist now begs to recommend this lady as a worthy recipient of thehonourofa memorial archway.-—-Request granted by Imperial Resorlpt.
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