The new rules for the sale of office are now published. During the three years Gust elapsed) when the sale of office was temporarily renewed for the Coast Defence Fund, over Tls. 10,000,000 were raised, at prices 20% below what is known as the received in audience, and that the Emperor ch'ang-li, or first established system of rules obtained from the former a very intelligent for the sale of office. A newly invented verbal sketch of the frontier operations title of precedence is now offered at the during the Tonquin war. same price, and all other expectancies, (i.e.
There has been no rain to speak of at titles carrying the prospect of holding real Nganking since June, and the dearth of office), are reduced 20%. ie. are 404 below water is so great that artificial tanks h the original par. Certain degrees and been constracted, and filled by irrigating {Titerary honours are to be sold at'507 below pumps, in order to supply the yamen and petty distinctions, such as des, ete., will remain unchanged the city position with water -puo mentions a rumour, the truth The Foochow opium and tea of which it doubts, that the Viceroy Tseng us, the Canton defence subseri {has supported a proposal that Hia-kwan, tions, and the Shensi salary subscription, the port of Nanking, shall be opened as a all of which gave a d to nominal rank, treaty port.
Subscriptions under the new rule will be are no longer to be sold for the present.
'A literary event of national importance has taken place in Japan, One. of the received in all the Provinces and forwarded Legation officers, now with the new Min: monthly: to Peking ister to Germany, recently discovered in The Hw Pao gives the reports of the the Ashikaga College (Tsubt-li Hioh) 8 copy native tea dealers upon the subject of of Hwang K'an's Confucian Analects, over the depression in their trade. The follow-1,200 years old, wi all the ancient con es on tea are paid in North notes. This work has di siding to this statement. An-China ever since the Southern Tls. 2. 08'on every for se 700 or 800 s; Ku-tang 4 mace a 2 whole history of the al; Customs duty is. 2.50 a picul; for present envy is known, the Chinese Gov-candareens a picul. ernment has directed the Minister in Japan wu lekin, Ths, 14a borrow it, in order that a. carefully "Tls. 1.25 the pecul corrected copy may be taken. It may be 3 mace the picul; Customs duty 2.50. Hunan and Hupei Provinees, tuled that, shuld there be any Kawa inscriptions upon this copy, valuable light 1.25 the picul; Hupei Province, ill also be thrown upon' the Japanese (for public works), 4 candareens the chest alphabet question.
Customs duty Tls. 2.50; growers' tax 4 per 'The Resident in Tibet incidentally men-cent aid valorem; dealers' tax, 30 or 40 cash tions that the old almanac of the Tangut the }chest. Tax on Ounfa (Hunan) growers, Kingdom, derived from the Ouigours, is 3 per cent "ad ralurem, and 100 cash packer's still in use there, which statement corres-tax eneuch 4 chest. Chekiang lekin, 6 mace ponds with the assertion in the Ming the 100 catties; Hangchow parcels 1,34 History that, from the Ttang dynasty up mace the 100 catties; Customs. duty Tis to the arrival of Schaal and Verbiest, the 50, In addition tothe above there are Ouigour calculations were also used by the Incal charities at various places, the sub-
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