The Governor at Soochow has received a telegram from Sheng Taotai at Chefoo, calling his attention to the terrible nature of the famine now prevailing in Ch'ing-chou Fu, Li-ching and other places in the same region. The Governor finds that he has in his treasury a sum of Ts, 30,000, which ought to be remitted to the Shensi and Government. With the consent of the Viceroy Tseng he has arranged to post pone the payment to Shensi, and send the money immediately to Chefoo as a loan to the Shantung Government, who will repay it in four years.—Appror 17th May.
HORSES FROM ILI FOR THE EMPEROR, The Military Governor of Ili represents that he has received a communication from the officers in charge of the Imperial Stables at Peking, concerning the supply of horses from Ili for the personal. use of the Emperor. Ihe elficers say that they eight horses yearly from the memo-but none now come from the Lieutenant Governor or the Generals, who are each of them bound to send a certain number annually. 'The Memoriali finds that this is perfectly correct; but. his colleagues represent that, on account of the miserable state in which' the neighbouring tribes are since the rebellion, it is very difficult to find suitable horses. It is therefore requested that a year or tio more may bellowed to elapse before they are require to send any.—Granted.
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