(2) Wang Yii-tsao is appointed Provincial Treasurer for Shantung in the place of Ch'ung-pao, who is permitted to retire from the, pubic service on the ground of ill BANK OF YUNO-TING RIVER REPAIRED, acca wan cvoationed by a breach in the (8) Last July or August a very serious
bank of the seventh section" of the Yungting or Hun Ho River, which comes down to Tientsin from the north-west of Peking. The officials responsible were reported for censure; and there was some discussion as to what would be the best means of dealing with the matter. The Viceroy Li Hung-chang now presents a memorial announcing that the river bank has been thoroughly repaired. The country adjoining it is free from water and protected from danger, so that the country folk can sow thei autumn crops. The Viceroy considers that the rapidity with which the work was completed does great credit to the officers' concerned, and he requests that rewards may be conferred upon them. The distance for which the em! ent was washed away was more than two thousand feet, and the water had excavated a hole for itself twenty feet in depth. Alsoon account, of the silting of the river bed it was necessary to cut a conducting canal in it for'a distance of twenty-four or twenty-five miles; and this meant the removal of ninety million cubic feet of earth. The task was all the more difficult, because
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