A short. time ago the Governor of Formosa granted two months' leave of absence to his Provincial Treasurer, Shao Vu-lien, who reported himself suffering from the effects of the hot and damp climate of the island, The ailments thus engendered had brought him into a state of languor and anemia, and if he could not ake-rest his mental capacity would be affected. The two months now being gone, Shao represents that he is not well yet and that it is needful for him to have better medical treatment than is possible in the island, He therefore begs for permission to resign his appointment and return to his home. The Governor will be very sorry to lose the services of his Treasurer, whose ability and attention to detail have been of great use in organising the newly established mother appealed to the higher court and 8° government. He knows that the Treasurer finally sent a son with a petition to Peking. is really ili, and that good medical wid She pretended first that the case was one cannot be obtained locally. But he thinks of deliberate murder, and not an uny that the malady will yield easily to proper meditated brawl; and secondly she endea-treatment, He therefore proposes that the youred to implicate some more members 'Treasurer, instead of retiring, should be of the other family, who were in no way con-given two more months' leave of absence cerned in the affair. The case was remitted with permission to return to the mainland, by the Board of Censors to the Governor after which it is probable that his health of the province, As satisfactory evidence will be restored,—Approced. could not be extracted from the parties 29th April. themselves, the Governor felt obliged to
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