Province of Kuangtung, has been made Governor of Kuangsi. and Vu Chih-kai has been appointed Treasurer in his place. Till the intter can arrive at Canton, by the Viceroy's recommendation, the Provincial Chief Justice, Wang Chih-chun, will act Grand Treasurer, and Wang Ching-hsien, Taotai for Kao-chou and Lien-chou, will act as Chief Justice.
CHARITABLE GIFTS FOR HONAX, The Governor of Honan reports the receipt of three liberal donations for the benefit of the distressed poor in his province. The first donor is Chao Hung-chu, General of the Ts'ao-chou District in Shan tung. He has given a thousand suits of wadded clothes, in accordance with the wishes of deceased grand-parents, who when alive had often exhorted him to take pleasure in acts of benevolence.
The second is Captain Fan Chin-shou, Commander of the arrison at Hsii-chou Fu in Kiangsu, who following the wishes of his late parents has given a sum ofa thousand taels. Thirdly a widow lady named Chou of Ho-fei in Anhui has presented five hundred piculs of rice, equal in value to twelve hundred taels. The Memorialist begs the Ensperor to grant permission for the erection of pai-lens in honour of the widow Indy and of the grandparents and parents of the other donors.—Granted.
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