The Governor of Honan reports the result of a trial held with reference to the escape ofa, prisoner from the jail at Yichow on the 10th April 1889. The criminal in question, Hsing Wu-lai by name, had been convicted of the murder of a policeman and sentenced to death by strangulation after the usual period of incarceration. On the evening of the 10th April during the OFFERING OF TRIBUTE BY KUNJUT TRIBE, The Acting Governor of Chinese Turkestan states that he is in receipt of a report from the Acting Taotai at Eoalger to the effect that Sai-pi-te-ai-li-han, the head of the Kunjut. tribe dwelling to the south of Serikul, had presented his annual tribute of an ounce and a half of gold-dust, receiving jin return the customary donation. of two rolls of satin. The gold-dust is being forwarded to His Majesty through the Imperial Household Department.
ABORIGINAL RISING ON BORDERS OF TIBET, Referring to an earlier memorial reporting the occurrence of an outbreak among the Chantui aborigines dwelling on the borders of Tibet, the Tartar General at Ch'eng-tu Fu and the Viceroy of Szechuan announce the successful result of temporary absence of the magistrate who the operations carried out under their had proceeded to Wuyang /isien on busi. orders by Acting Colonel Hsit Lien-kuei ness, the jail-warden Kao-mu made a per- and three other officers, to whom the sonal inspection of the prison, attended by task of dealing with the disturbances the warders and prison-clerk, and found the had been entrusted. On the 7th May last fetters by which the criminal was secured Memorialists received from these officers a tobe in perfect order. In the course of report to the effec: that the rising, though that night however there was a gale of wind headed by Sa-la-yung-chu, one of the chief-which blew out the watchmen's lamps, and tains of the tribe in question, really originate drove them indoors where they all fell fast ed in the proceedings of " certain lama asleep. The prisoner profited by their Patswig, who had incited the aborigines to absence to wrench off his fetters and break revolt LA gap that the Kung-pr through the wooden bars of his cell, after Te-teng which he burrowed under a wall and so|decree to resume his former functions, been Beanie by Imperial effected his escape. The alarm was given at Detachments of troops were quietly moved daybreak and pursuit instituted but without tid Chang-ku to the neighbourhood of any result. The facts of the case having Yo-lo, where they took up stations been duly reported by the magistrate who commanding the Tine of march by which had hurried back to hold the necessary Te-teng would have to advance, all the 'a decree was obtained stripping important frontier passes being' strictly warden of his rank and directing guarded by the forces of the native chiefs.
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