Ku Chao-hsi to be Intendant of the Tainan Circuit with brevet rank as Provineial Judge.
To-day's Gazette contains two decrees, one a long list of honours for those provincial otticials who have been especially prompt in making the remittances in aid of the funds of the New Dominion, and one with reference to the death of T'ao Ting-sheng, one of the heroes of the Taiping rebellion.
'A large amount of space too is taken up with the report of a most heinous crime—the felling of 1 tree standing in a particu- Po lar portion of the enclosure round one of the Imperial mausolea:
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