Hankow. having been promoted ry be Sal Commissioner of the Lianghuai area, the Viceroy Chang Chi-tung and the Governor of Hupeh in a joint memorial now recom mend for the post Fang-Kuny-chao a native of Chekiang. Between 1868 and 1888 he served in various Metropolitan offices, and. was employed as one of the chief secretaries jin the Tsung-li Yamen. In the latter yer he was appointed Customs Taotai at feb ang and subsequently acted as Provincial Judge jof Hupeh in both of which capacities his conduct of afuirs left nothing to he desired, Should the present nomination be approv memorialists request that His Majesty will be pleased to appoint a successor to till the amoy at Tebiang.—Leferved to the Batt of Cicil Office.
SIIPWRECKED LIVCHIUASS AT FoocHOW, The Viceroy at Foochow reports the arrival there on 12th Dee. last of a junk containing 10 distressed Liuehiuan mariners forwarded on from the province of Chekiang.
being examined through an interpreter they stated that they sailed on a voyage from Tuku-shan-ching, in Liuchiu, on the: 24th Oct. last, and were driven by stress of weather over to the coast of the Yiilnan district in Chekiang. Here the local authorities came to their assistance and sent a junk with them as far as Foochow, which they reached on the 12th December, On the same, day a second party of shipwrecked Liuchiuans, to the number of nine persons, anyed by steamer from North Formosa, jin a destitute condition, the account they gave of themselves being that they sailed from Na-yuan-ching in Liuchiu on the 25th October last, and having been caught ina typhoon were driven on to the For-most coast. Here they were rescued from their disabled vessel and taken charge of by the local authorities, who sent them on to the Taipei Fu, whence they were subsequently forwarded by steamer to Foochow.
They have been relieved in the usual Smmmner and will be sent back, when opportunity offers, to their own country,
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