(4) A Memorial from Li Hung-cha recommending a number of officers, who have completed a term of three years' service in Corea, for the promotion to which they are entitled under the regulations applicable to the case of officers attached to missions abroad. Yitan-Shih-k-ai, the resident in Corea, has pvinted out to the Memorialist that commercial relations have: only recently been established with that country, and has, at the same time, brought to his notice the services which two of the officers on the Corean staff, T'ang Shao-iand Wu Chung-hsien, rendered in assisting the Commissioners of Customs in establishing Custom Houses. Two others of his subordinates, Ch'én Pao-ch'ue and Chang Hsieh-yao, besides communicating Western learning Joarning suited to the requirements of the present time to Corean pupils, acted as Interpreters and directed commercial matters with zealous care and industry at Han Yang and Fusan. The salaries of these officers ure moderate, and they have to endure the cold and privations of life in Corea. Their conduct during the trying peond of the late outbreak was from first to last marked with energy and proper sense of duty.—Request granted by minute in Vermillion.
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