The Governor of Anhui reports that Kung Chao-yuan, the Shanghai Taotai, contributed Tls. 3,000 to the relief of the distress which recently prevailed in his native province, The donation was, it appears, prompted by the dying wishes of his great grandfather and his great grandmothers, the latter four in number, and the injunctions of his grandfather and his grandmothers, of whom he had two. The amount of the contribution is sufficient to authorise the erection of memorial arches ty the above mentioned ancestors of the Taotai at his home in the Hofei district.—Granted by Rescript.
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