The Viceroy Tseng Kuo-ch'iian reports that the Taotai at Chinkiang has been obliged to vacate his office on account of the death of his mother, The post is one of great importance, and its occupant is charged with the preservation of order at treaty port, besides acting as Superintendent of Custor The Memorialist therefore has lost no time in sending an officer to take temporary charge until His Majesty shall appoint some one to fill the vacancy GIFTS TO KIANGSU AND ANHUI RELIEF FUND, The Viceroy Tseng Kuo-ch'itan reports the receipt of a number of charitable gifts for the relief of the distress prevalent at the present time in the provinces of Kiangsu and Anhui. Two officials, natives of the province of Hunan, each subscribe sum of one thousand taels, the one declaring his gift to be made in accordance with the wishes of his deceased grandmother, and the other in accordance with those of his deceased father. An official of Wu-hsi in Kiangsu, as desired by his mother, gives a thousand articles of wadded clothing, and a scholar of Cheki makes similar donation in accordance witl the instructions of his late grandmother and late mother, The wadded clothing is reckoned in each instance as being of the value of Tis, 1,000. As a reward for the liborality thus displayed, the Memorialist asks that the Emperor will give permission for the erection of Memorial arches in honour of the persons who have caused the gifts to be made. The arches will be set up by the members of the families concerned in their native homes.—Approved.
SICK LEAVE GRANTED TO A MONGOL CHIEF.
The authorities at Tarbagatai report that an application has been made to them by the Mongol Prince acting as Captain-General of the Sain-nom tribe on of a Djassak Daidji, or chieftain and noble of
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