The Lieutenant-Governor of Shantung, when Judicial Commissioner at Canton, forwarded a contribution of Tls. 1,000 towards the relief of the distress in Honan, and intimated that in so doing he was only fulfilling the dying injunctions of his grandparents, who bad earnestly impressed upon their descendants the necessity of using every: effort to alleviate human suffering. At the suggestion of the Governor of Honan, memorial arches are to be erected to their memory at their native place in Hupeh.
'24th February.
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