in office, and Mini mon denouncing in atrong terms one Kung I-t'u, until recently" Financial Commis:
at Canton, but now transferred to liar post in Hunan, This oticer, ho slates, commenced his ed to the provincial line, being allotted an Expectant Magistracy in Yunnan, At tie time of his appointment to that province a rebellion was going on there, 20 ho tried by every means in power to got, transfereed by special appli cation from other high authori other province. The Board sanction pplicatious for Dut eventually he succeeded appointed to Shantung, where he p through ade of prefect and obtained the appoititment of Tao-t'ai of the Teng, Ini, Ching Circuit, a post which he held for many years greatly to his pecuniary Donefit, being accounted the richest man int Fulkion, his native province. From Shantung he went to Kiangeu as Judge, and while holding that office he retired in niourning. During his term of mourn, ie contrived to set people by the ears an foment litigation, specially distinguishing himself by claiming' the temple to Chu Fu-tzi_as.his property and proceeding to pull it down, which act of vandalism raised such #.storm of indignation that he had to rebuild it He next became Judge of Kuangtung, where he contrived through using his influence with the Governor to get appointed acting Salt Controller as well, filling his pockets thereby, with theaidofhiscollectors, to the tune of over ten thousand toda, Hasiich Yao-kuang Deputy Magistrate of Nan-hai who was about to be denounced for fraud in connection with the purchase of munitions of war; he obtained Tls. 3,000 annually from a certain Customs establish-i eration of which supported insufficient by them, thus committed by this establishment; and not only did lo not iusiat upon the pay-mont by the territorial authorities of their arrears of taxation, which had reached the large sum of from four to five millions, but he wanted to cut down the expenditure of the regular army and apply thereconomies thus effected to the reduction of these arrears, This scheme was vehemently opposed by the military, and nearly caused a mutiny, Again, he made capital out of the removal of the restriotious upon the Wei-hsing lotteries, which he agreed to farm out to a certain company for $3,800,000 in consideration of a bribe to himself of $100,000. Meanwhile, however, another syndicate came forward with an offer of $4,400,000, and the Governor Gon tthe monopoly thidder. Lhe his first clients, who had bribed tually obliged to grant poly to the two syndicates in combination, whereupon the first syndicate reduced their bribe to $50,000 though Kung I-t'u tried hard to force more out of them, After referring to other acts of di honesty on the part of Kung Lt'u in connection with the levy of land tax, and the favouritism lie displayed to follow-prov erying under him, the Momorialist_ pr: to accuse him of having taken to himself as coneubin the daughter of a mau living in Can. ton, a certain military oticer, a Cantonese whom Kung I-t'u had known in Sh tung acting as yo-between, The girl brother used his sister's i with the Financial Commi is private ends, his aunt, who used to dress herself up as a servant for the occasion, being rer of communications to the Commis-required, Kung I-t'u, again was a heavy loser by the failure of the Fu K'ang Bank, and his efforts to recoup himself for ses have given him the reputation of the most grasping and unprincipled Finance Commissioner that Canton has The Memorial concludes with a sum: up of the Financial Commi 's character, to which whom amongst others, such epithets as "oblivious of the di due to his position," eo} and debauched in his tastes,"-ete. are applied, and his Majesty is requested to depute a high officer to make accurate enquiry into his acts and unsparingly denounce him to the Throne, that 8 covetous 2 tricky an officer may. not be allowed to escape the meshes of tie law.
October 29th—(1) A Decree ordering the issue, in answer to an application from the Censors of the Chinese portion of the Metropolis, of $30 piculs of grain a month for distribution to the poor at the following He charitable establishments oan.
Bang Shan Tang in the Tai Oh'ing The Mahomuedsn Mosgae in the Chiao (The above are night refuges for paupers.)
Tzu lane is also to receive 300 piculs, and the two gruel kitchens outside the Ch'ao-yang and Ha-ta gates respectively are to Teceive 150 piculs exch, (2) With the exception of an unimportant document of a formal nature 0 whole of the remainder of this day' pied with the report of the Imperial Commissioner P'ong Yii-lin upon the charges brought by Teng Gli'éug-hein against Kung Lt'u, recently Financial Commissioner at Canto, an abstract of which appeared li riy's issue, For the Decree in reply report ace Gazette of October 10th, October 30th.—(1) A Decree ordering the Imperial College of Inscriptions to prepare tablets fur the tenplos to the God of War and the Dragon God at Ktiachta, those deities having manifested their divine powers in ® conspicuous manner when prayed to Inst summer for rain, (2) The Governor-General at Foochow reports that some damage was done in that city and its suburbs by a heavy gale of wind accompanied by much needed rain upon the 24th and 25th of August. A large number. of houses collapsed, people wore crus damage was done to war ji soldiers barracks along the: const." 'T! had fortunately b luod-not long been in was d Lhe neighbouring district of Liang-chiang suffered more, and in Fu-oli'ing Hsien there was also damage done. Orders have been issued for the extent of the mischief t in these and other plac ined, and relief admi (8) The Governor-General at Canton and the Governor report the despatch of the second instalment of the remittances due Bist December, 1884 the following Decree to Peking for the present year. On the
bruit their the capital daring the coming year, in which they Propose that the sum of Ts, 7,000,000 shall be set apart from the land tax and revenue as a subsidy to the capital.
d that this amount be sent forward in instalments next year. In a sub-Memorial they propose that the Kuangtung salt revenue shall contribute Tls. 1g 50,000 to the expenditure of the Office of the Imperial Household, We command that this shall be sent forward in iustalmeute next year,"
Tn'a memorandum accompanying: this Decree, copy of which was communicated by the Grand Council, the. salt reventio of Kuangtung was charged with Tis, 200,000 for Poking and Tls. 50,000 for interest on deposits.
second instalment of the above subies, amounting in all to Tls. 92,760 has been sent: forward by bills to Peking in charge of a special officer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.