The Governor of Shantung applies, on behalf of three subscribers to the relief of distress in the province, for permission to erect memorial arches in honour of their respective mothers to whose parental advice their charitable action is ascribed. Each of the donations comprised a thousand taels' worth of wadded garments and is sufficient fo establish a claim to the distinction for which application is now made.—Granted by Rescript.
FUNDS FOR THE IMPERIAL JOURNEY To THE
EASTERN TOMBS, Almost every Gazette for the last week or more has contained a demand for funds on the part of some Department charged with the arrangements connected with the Emperor's approaching visit to the Eastern Tombs, and each application is referred to Li Hung-chang, who receives instructions to supply the amount required out of the unlimited arrears which the province of Chihli appears to owe to the Metropolitan Government. To-day the viceroy is ordered to furnish the Imperial Equipage Department with Tls. 20,000 before the 4th of April, the date fixed for the Imperial journey.
27th February.
ELEATIC OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD
OF CEREMONIES, A Decree published to-day notices the death of K'uei-jun, President of the Board of Ceremonies, whose extensive learning and devotion to duty made him a valuable servant of the state. Oblatious are to be offered to his memory by a Prince attended by an escort of ten members of the Imperial body guard, and a funeral pall inscribed with the ¢'olo ritual is to cover his remai Tis, 500 have been issued from the Pri Purse towards defraying the cost of funeral, and all the mistakes of his official career are condoned.
Ash Chen-i, the Financial Commissioner at Nanking has been appointed Director-General of the Yellow River in succession to Wu Ta-ch'éng.
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