(A) The Viceroy at Foochow was required last year to send to Peking " subsidy of up Ts, '200,000 from the and tax of the province; and this year he is required to supply from the duty'on tea, Tls. 50,000 for the [Imperial Household, Tls. 200,000 for the Board of Revenue, and Tls. 5,000 per month for the Banner Organisation. He is remitting sums on these Various accounts by means of bills of exchange, having explained previously that the want of silver jin Foochow makes it impossible for him to {send bullion, in spite of the Board of Revenue's desire the latter plan be adopted. The givers of the Dills of exchange will not be paid till after the bills have been cashed in Pekin; A MURDER CASE IN ILI, September 7th.—(1) The Governor ut Turkestan reports the sentence passed by him in a case of homicide, The criminal was a young Mohammedin from Kansu, Ma Mai-erh by name and twenty-one years fof age. The man whom he murdered, Ma San-niu, was about fifteen years his senior amd belonged to the same religion. "The Help on his farm, and the two Lived. tne younger man was employed by the elder to
gether on perfectly friendly terms. One might however, last year, Ma Swn-niu tried to ill-treat his assistant, who would not submit and ran out of the house ery (neighbour came out to see what" was the ter and found the elder man trying to the younger into the hou The neighbour was not informed what was the cause of the trouble, and advised Ma Mai-erh to go back. Ma Sin-niu ina short time began to assault Ma Mai-oth again, and threatened, if he resisted, to tell false stories about him to eve body, so that he could never afterwards look uny one in the face. The young man, astaad of going to rest, remained breeding over his troubles, and finally, in an necess of rage, attacked his sleeping persecutor, first with a stone used as. pillow, and then vith a fire shovel. The neighbours, hearing a noise, came in, but were tov late to save Ma San-niu, who soon expired. Mai-erh immediately gave himself up to justice. The Memorialist finds that in such eases, if a man of sixteen or over kills in self defence another man ten years or more his senior, no matter whether he do so at the moment of the outrage or not, the sentence required by law is that of strand gulation, He therefore condemns the eri minal to this punishment after the usual period of imprisonment.—Referred by Rescript to the Board,
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