The Archive · 1887

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(4) Sé-lénghas made for reports the area anding over charg 1 Resident in Tiber sume the duties of h Governor of Ili, On re-ing the announcement of th latter appointment, he 3 tw Pel for audiones, but he was told in lied for permission to go reply that he need not. do so.

His sue-cessor, Wen-shuo, arti bet on the 28th bril, and took over change on the 1st May.

He' proposes to start for Thi on the 12th May, travelling by way of Sechuen, Shensi, and Kansu.

We lave ree Memorial from the Censorate stating that Kuo Hai-lou, a student of the Feng-chieh District in Szechuen, had sent a representative to Peking to support his appeal against the decision of the local authorities in a case relating to the alleged murder of his nephew by a member of an affiliated society. The magistrate, it is averred, was bribed to alter the depositions and accept a substitute for the real criminal. The report of the case forwarded by the governor-general gave a very different version of the affair, and We now command him to have the matter equitably investigated. Let the plaintiff's agent be sent back to take part in the new trial,

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