October 25th.—(1) A Decree cousitring strong terms a number of officials in whose name it by th ie failure to sond in even one tenth them in their respective jurisdiction sentencing them and others who hi collected little more than fifty per cent to dismissal from the public service.
Provincial high authorities generally, are, at the same time warned that they must insist upon their subordinates. paying in arrears of. taxes. within the time.
igned, and they are required to denounce. any officers who fail to comply with this order.
(2) A Memorial from the Governor-General and Governor at Cautow'reportin, te trial of an expectant sub-protect called Hell K'éng-pi who having been denounced suovymously for barbarous and tyrannical his incumbency of the Lu-feng District, was examined in 1883 by the ten Governor-General, who found that the only charge that could be brought home to: him. was that of burying an old maualive. As ao. grave a crime could not be allowed to pass without a searching enquiry, the Governor General requested that Hell K'éng-pi might be cashiered with a view to being placed formally upon his The request was granted by a decree which exhorted the Gyyeruor-General to use stung measures the..tene. facts.of, the cas upon receipt. of thie door local authorities were ordered to give effect thereto,- but the magistrates of the two Districts of Nan-hai; and P'an-yn reported that Heir KGug-pi was nowhere to be found. in the city or the suburb this. fect to the Throne. it, was-roqnosted aus to be inde lit
'a: request which was duly complied with.. (See Gazettes of June 24th and September 12ch 1883).
hile Bott Keng-pi suddenly proselfnt the of the Financial judicial' Commissioners with the. explanation that he had been staying at a temple in the White Cloud. Bille some five miles from Canton, where he had gone and rest, as lo sas not well, and 1 ord to the authorities for custody, his appearance was reported. to the Throne that the general order for his arrest might be can-colled,.aud the. various wit ordered to be ant from Hui-chow Fu, the prefecture in whioh' Lu-feng Hsien, the scone of the alleged crime, 9d.
These witnesses having ived, the trial, was held. and 1 by the Prefect, after, whi before a joint tribunal; composed jof Fivaneial and: Judicial Commis and taotai, who held 'a second examination of the prisoner, and passed the case on to the Memorialiat for revision. ' 'The facts brief, as.follows While Heir Keng-pi was acting as ma; trate ofthe Eu-feng distri villager called Gh'éag Eh' his sons and certain: nut on, who seized one of Chéng's but he was rescued by an armed party headed by Cheng, one of the runnere being mounded in the ateagele, Eh himself liable 'The' magi was out on. his rounds collect t the time, then caused Cheng to be seized and taken to his yamen, where endeavours were made to force him to give'np the man who-wounded the runner, Ohéng.replied by cursing the anngistrate, and the latter, wftaid. that the friends would attempt a rescue, called uj one. of his underlings-to threaten. Cheng i in order to. silence him... Th ing throat with a ground. Thre joing that Cheng mas sorely wounded and not likely to live, gave.orders that a pit should be dug by; the of: the road. some: two feet deep, and into thie rit he caused Cheng to -be, placed upright posture and the earth filled The man was position: as. a warning to the his clan, who were. numerous, and. aggres-size; until his decease, which shortly, afterwardsioccurred,. The. relatives.of. the deceased. were then.called upon to take charge of the body and'give it of the case ni magiateato to his-superior.
After prooseding to consider variousothor charges against Hei K'éng-pi, and to plain by the light of the man's own many and that of the priest of the temple he lived. in how it was lat he came to be so thorities and thus causing: warrants to be issued for his arrest, the. Memorialist proceeds: to suggest the which. should be pasted upon the prisone: the'.first instance. consisted in. what thorieedly. killing.2,-man. who lied, mitted @ capital crime, for which office he la liable to one hundred blows only,
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