(500,009 catties,) of th reports the despatch of the firat instalment,
tent of copper from thi route by which it is forwarded is vid Li chow in Sgschuen where the copper placed in taken to Ich'ang and there transhipped into steamers, (2) A Sub-memorial from fan Chiinposi, newly appointed Governor of the Kusngtung Province.
The Memorialiat's place of domicile for generations past has been Chen-yuin Fu in Kueichow. The original place of family domicile was Kao-chou Fa in Kuangtung, but the family moved in the Ming Dynasty to Li-pring Fu in Kueichow and in the reign Kta yitun Bu, have elapsed this removal and the family por burial ground uor property in the Kuangtung Province, After making the usual declaration of his place of domicile upon entering on hi oliicial career the Memorialist visited his ancestral temple in Kuangtung where there is a tablet suspended, and he is in constant communication with friends there who are members of the same clan. Under there circumstances he would solicit His Majesty's onmmands as to whether i duty to withdraw from the Province, Rescript. There is no occasion for him to withdraw, and upon the arrival of K'uei-pin, he will proceed with all despatch to his new po Tuly 28th,—No documents of importance.
Tuly 29ch.—(1) Lin Ping-chang, newly appointed Governor-General of Szechue: reports that he gave over the seals of uth as Governor of Cheki Acting. Governor Hell jung upon the 4th of Tuly, He purposes leaving Havgcliow upon the 10th of July, going by river to Ich'ang, feom whence he will travel overland, (2) In a separate Memorial the same officer asks pertuission to take with him four military officers, Majors or Colonels, whose names he xives, and in whose capability he has confidence, in order to employ them in any capacity in which their services will be useful.
Hy explains as his reason for making th application that Szvoh of vast area with which ho is not familar, Know whether or no irregular troops now remain in the pr for dete: poses, While admitting that tary operations are over, there is no} Jeea constant danger of activity on the part of the members of the turbaned and Kolao societies, while the contiguity of the Tib tan frontier requires the exercise of strict, precautions.
Request granted by Rescript.
July 30ch.—A Sub-Memo Ping-chang, Governor of Chd Tua letter received from Works some time back with r sum of is. 106,784 which Hu Kuang-jung had borrowed as an agent from Chinese and foreigners and fraudulently appropriated to his own use, they stated that this money was intended to meet expenditure Incurred in the West, and must be forthwith recovered from the property of Hu Kuang-jung which formed his assets, fas it was wanted for public works in the Now Dominion. As earlier reported by the Memorialisi the sum of Tls. 35,000 had been drawn by the lekin department from the assets of Hu Kuavg-j t to the New Dominion by the hand of a special agent, The Financial Commissioner now yoporta that he proposed to remit the balance of the sum in que 69,648, by drafts obtained from a Shanghai Bank known as the Wei-Feng Hon, to whom the money will be paid and with whom arrangements have been made for its remittance to Kansu in three instalts, the last to be sent in October next, The Governor-G ports that Wan Pte in, having received wawa death of Helen in Fuh-view, place of domicile, has vacated his post. proposes to appoint Hu Yii-fou, expectant Tao'tai, to the Acting post. He lias aleo to announce the death, on the Lat of July, of Wang Hung-nien, Tao'tai of the 'T's, Si ireuit, to which ports an expectant Tav'tai, be sub-memorial the seme officer the total value of the duties by the twenty per cent of cargo grain fleet are allowed to curry to Tientsin duty free is reported by the Customs Tao'tat to have amounted this year to Taels 35,021.
August Lst.—(1) A Memorial from Liu Ping-chang, Governor of Chekiang, sub-itting estimates for the repair of " long Hai-you narialist entered upon the rities of his present post he wale it his first task, to enquire what were the most important matters to be dealt with, and he was met by a prompt and unanimous response from the gentry that the sea wall in Hai-yen Helen lind nut been repaired for many years and was a source of serious danger, The Momorialiat was about to consider how the matter should be dealt with when it had to be set aside for the more urgent measure of coast defence. Di ring the two years that then elapsed the and more into decay, and the maritime defence ques-ug relaxed the Memorialist was again about to take the matter up when ho received an urgent appeal from th gentry as to the danger of del any longer. A survey accordingly ordered to be made by yea wall depactment who report that over 20,000 foot of wall require to be repaired or rebuilt, As the cost of an undertaking on such a scale would be almost prohibitive, it has been decided after careful consideration of the question to confine the work to the recoup ateuction of various sections amounting to 5,000 feet in length, and the repair of others amounting to 4,600 feet in length. The imated cost of this work is put down at about is, 199,900 if car with economy, but the Blemori reduced it further by decide amount at a discount of twenty per cent, making Tle, 160,000 udd.
The mauner in whi ruse the money, in view of the impoverished state of the Treasury and the inability of the Lekin revenue to meet such a call, is as follow Lo be taken from a fund in hand representing the balance of certain subscriptions to a defence fund contribut Th.
merchants 80,000 The Fin supply 13,000 The Sal 15,000 The Grain Into! 30,000 The lekin Bureau 20,000
Tls. 160,000
The above amounts are to be paid in instalments extending over two years.
Rescript:—The Board concerned will take cagn (2) The Governor-General and Governor at Canton report the despatch of the second instalment of the subsidy due the Buard of Revenue and the Offi Iwperial Household from the Salt Revenue
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