ABSTRACT OF PEKING GazerrEs, October Ist.—The only document of inferent in this day's Memorial from the Governor-General of Shenai and Kansu describing at considerable longtl. a successful attack by the troops upon native tribes who had previously made raids in the Ho Chow sub-prefecture, killing police authorities and recovering by force sume of their number who had been taken prisoners.
By special and express orders from the Throne an organised expedition was despatched to chuntite there tribes during the summer, and first took up x position of defence to the east of a mountain known us the snow mountain, but when they became aware of the strength of the expedition sent out against them, they retrentod up the mountain where' they thought the soldiers could not follow them, Though it was mid-summer, there were several feet of snow upon the heights, but the soldiery, nothing daunted, pushed boldly on, and every outlet of each ape having been blocked, the heights occupied by the scaled an Hak i wfter a tierce fight, in ti of which five chieftains wore beheaded and several score of the enemy slain, several thouraud head of cattle being also taken, The Government loss wes one officer and six men killed and twenty-three wounded. The rest of the insurgents disp but shortly afterwards the little" headman and other of the four tribes were brought to the authorities by a certain Hutuktu and an abbot and gave in their allegiance, wearing that they would become peaceable subjects for ever after, Their allegiance was accepted and their cattle returned to them, with presents in addition of cooking pots, ts, flour, wh ats ter, cloth and other needs. Their registration and division into. thousnuds and hundreds will duly be attended to by the authorities, and they will be placed under the control of a tribe known as the Lupén-k'o, October 2nd.—(1) A Decree ad ging the receipt of a Memorial fro Ming-chuan, Governor of Formosa, denouncing a geveral called Wang Ch'un-fa under lis command for dishonesty and fraud. This officer, who was in command of three battalions of the division known as the Chen-hai Division, kept back in some instances the full amount of the money duo to his men, and in others never issued it to them at all. He further employed an ex-District Magistrate who had been dismissed the service and allowed him to import opium which the troops were permitted to amok, the cost of the opium consumed by them being deducted from their mouthly pay. Another General called Kuei Chan-piao was also guilty of making deductions from the pay issued by him to his men.
To impose the simple penalty of dismissal, which is all that the Governor asks shall be inflicted on these men, would be letting them off far too lightly. They are, as preliminary measure, to be cashiered, and After subjecting them toa rigorous examination the Governor will submit for the approval of the Throne the penalty which the law assi He will at the sxme time nscertein the ut of the deductions acted and require their repayment with-ina given time.
(2) The Governor Adjuint and Governor of the Metropolitan Prefecture apply for t usual annual grant of rice for the Chi tution known as nated inside the institution wae founded in the year 1881 by a certain number of officials Pekin on the Leroy of an establishment in its objects the ati loss boys and giv nical as might be suited to their intelligence, Another institute in which the Memo: crested, a charitable society of old stan known as the "Ching Chieh Hui," or Society for the honouring of chastity amongst widows, which has for its object the of monthly relief to widows who base their husbauda in early life and have romained faithful to their memory, Proportional allowances are also granted by the society to the parents-in-law and children of these widows. Premises were provided in 1881 for the evcirty by the Grand Secretary and a grant of 300 piculs of rice wi asked for and el tained by the Memorialist's predecessors for the two amalgated institutions, t scope of which was subsequently considerably extended by the establishment in different parte of the Prefecture of free schools, eshools for learning trades, and for teaching weaving, The Memorialists have now the to apply for the usual grant for this institution, the beuetite of which lave been widely felt.
(8) Similar applications are made for the annual geants given to other charitable institutions in and around Peking.
October 3rd (1) 4 deeres ordering Chen Pao-chen, ex-judicial Comm Chékinng' cashiered, Hung Ju-kuei, ex Salt Commissioner of the Linsi, al cashiered, together with 3 minor officials who have earlier been d the service, to place themselves at the disposal of the Governor General at Canton for avesice in that province.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.