About three months ago eight stacks of millet, stalks caught fire accidentally and were burnt down at the Yellow River, and the official in charge of the depdt, Pai Tseng-hui, was stripped of his button, and ordered to make good the amount of the damage within a specified period, Wu Ta-cheng now reports that within a month after the occurrence the official in jnestion purchased eight other stacks of the same dimensions as those destroyed, and as he has shown great penitence for his carelessness, he suggests that he should now be restored to his former rank, which has been granted by Imperial rescript.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE To LIU CHIN-T'ANG, GOVERNOR OF TURKESTAN, Liu Chin-tang, having applied for an extension of leave for six months to enable him to visit his grandmother at his native place in Hunan, the Emperor in a decree expresses himself constrained to grant such an earnest request, but adds that at the expiration of that period he counts upon being able to avail himself of the valuable services of the applicant, whose post in Turkestan is to be filled in the mean time by Wei Kuang-tao.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.