The Acting Governor of Chinese Turkestan recommends Wang Chin-ming, an expectant Taotai on the Shensi list, for the post of Taotai at Aksu, vacant by the transfer of Yuan Shih-ling to Kashgar. The post is a most important one, its incumbent being charged with the' superintendence of irrigation canals, development of cultivation, and judicial matters, as well as with supervision over the Mongol and Barat tribes (inspection of frontier posts, ete.) The officer named, a record of whose services is given at length, is represented as being eminently suitable for the appel tment, both by reason of his personal qualifications, and by his intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the province, acquired in the course of a long residence.—Referved to Bourd of Civil Ofice,
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