March 26th.—Soon after the breach ocourred in the Yellow River, one of the Censors proposed that money should be raised by the sale of office for the repair of the damage and the relief of the suffering caused by the floods, The suggestion obtained the Imperial sanction and the provincial authorities were allowed to revive and carry on for one year the system of raising funds by the sale of official titles which had been previously employed as a weans of defraying the cost ut defensive operations along the coast. The Governor of Kiangsi now reports that the total amount realised by him under this head during the past year is Tls. 107,216.9, part of which has been applied towards deepening the bed of the Yellow River in Shantung, while the remainder was, by the Board's directions, forwarded to Honan and there used in the repair of the breach at Cheng Chou. The success which has attended the scheme has induced the Board to move the Throne to sanction its continuance for another year.
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