Decree.—We are in receipt of a memoria-ported by the Viceroy Li, was submitted from Chang Yao in which he reports that Brecautionsry messuren are being taken. to the Throne, soliciting permission to atthe Ta-chai, Chin-wang and othertyi outbreak is attributed to deficient build a Memorial Temple in that city to es in the Chang-ch'iu district the Yellow drainage.
Wu Yii-lan, who was formerly Intendant iver overflowed its embankments and The Hujie Kan and Kongo Kan, the two of the Tientsin and Ho-chien Circuits. that steps are being taken for repairing the corvettes built under the supervision of Imperial sanction was given to this request, damage. The Governor asks that the offi-Sir Edward Reed at the time the Fuse Kan but the Board declined to authorise the cials to whose carelessness the occurrence is was built, are to be despatched on a cruise formance of periodical worship in the to the Hawaiian Islands on or about the ample on the ground that the buildin; attributed should be pu ished, and requests that notice should be taken of his own 17th inst., each vessel carrying a quota was erected by-private subscription an want of vigilance in the matter. We find of naval cadets from the Tokio Naval did not fall within the category of those that on the 22nd of July last the embank-College. entitled to such privileges. The citizens of ments around the aforesaid vi were 6th August.
Yangchow, who owed their preservation swept away by the heavy summer freshets during the Taiping rebellion to the exer-and that the main embankment of the river tions of the deceased, protested against this on the south collapsed for a distance of decision and forwarded a remonstrance to over 30 chang. This intelligence has caused the Viceroy at Nanking through Li Hung-us the deepest anxiety and we command chang. They quote two instances in whicl Chang Yao with his whole staff to take worship has, been sanctioned in temples steps without a moment's delay to close erected by private subscription, one being the breach and to distribute such relief
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