coMPANY.
Ku Shou-chiao, an officer holding the rank of Sub-Prefect, who was formerly employed asa clerk in the China Merchants' Company at Shanghai and had been de-raded for peculation, recently contributed is. 10,000 worth of wadded garments for the use of the famine-stricken people in Anhui and Kiangsu. The Viceroy at Nanking proposed that as a reward for liberality he should be restored to his original rank, but the Board objected on account of the nature of the offence for which he had been cashiered. In reply, the Viceroy states that an investigation of the case had been held at the Instance of the Northern Superintendent of Trade by the Shanghai Taotai, who had exonerated the accused of the charge of extortion. Since then he has shown great activity in works of charity connected with famine relief in Manchuria, Anhui and other provinces, and the memorialist con-jets that his services in this direction establish strong claim, in favour of his reinstatemont.—Granted by rescript.
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