February 8th and 9th.—(1) The Governor of Shantung reports that La Jun-hsiang, Literary Chancellor of that province, hus been obliged to go into moun father, that w etc be apy possible, (2) The Governor-General at Nanking submits @ list of officers upon whom he asks that rewards may be bestowed for thir labsura in connection with the construction of river works on either bank of the Grand Canal in the prefecture of Yangchow. These works, which have extended over a period of nine years, and upon which several hundred ethicers have Deen engaged from first to lax completed. hive been made at over a hundred places and the durability of many of them I beau put to severe (ests in time of floods with eminently successful results.—By a Rescript appended to the Memorial, lat is to be to the Buard of Ci Office for consideration.
(3) Lhe Governor of the requests permission to defer report on the capabilities of th wuder his control until the completed a longer period of present being the ye usual triennial report tke Throne by the high authorities on the capabilities of the officers under thei pective commands, instructions in th sense were duly received from the Board of Civil Office, but it has been represented to the Memorialiat by his Financial Comtniasiouer that the New Dominion has been so recently constituted x regular provines that none of the ollicials have yet served three years upon whicl Hoit merits or deric sty is accordingly requi postponement of the next triennial Granted by itescript.
Febrasry 10th and 1ith.—The Court Circulac of the 10th of February, announces that Majesty, after business is finished and he dined, will go to U an appli Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichow, for permission to erect Memorial temples to the late General Yang Yii-k'o at the Taj Fu an nan frontier gate in Kua sacrifices wre to be offered and autumn by the local offic mentioned temple is Ly commemorate the services of the deconsed uflicerin assisting the Governor-General in Yi Jo, and the soco: Memoral of his more recent prowess in Tougki The Governor of Feng-tien and his Aeputy report the trial of an individual who appealed per on the vecasion spring to the Imperial Maw dividual, where name was Lin P'eng-chao, was duly forward by the Bo-rd of Punishments to Feng-tien, and the true ug elicited' by the proper iva and veritied by th Liu chao, 1 place ested Yao Wan Kou in the Huai-te District twelve yours ago in search of work, and settled down there. He there made the acquaintance of one Li and his wife, the niece of a man called Ptang Fong:
ig all resi ey with the Li family n such good terme did Liu become with Li's wife that in " 3879, ced her in the absence of her nd_subsequontly prevailed on her to away with him, Shey went to K'ai-vit Hsivn, where they hired " hous and pated thomeelves off ay man and wife, Alter living together cig! the woman pied ay for hee child, " b cried so desperately to get him that Lin P¥éug-chuo determined to yo and fetch him, On his arrival at Lin Wan Kou be was met by the uncle of his paramour, who extracted from him a confession of his. wheres! and fetch h wife back, ao, ho got assistance of hit other people in the village and bound Lin P-éug-chao whom he said he would hale before the Magistrate. Lin Peng-chao thereupon become abusive, upon which Prang Feng-ming picked up a with which ho yashed Liu about con-lly ended by gouging out the Mon on to relate, " objecting ug gouged," Inid x complaint at the magistracy, but the case was compromised by sume peuple in the village who prevailed upon P'ang to offer in compensation a house and some laud, and Liu to drop his action at law apon these terms. P*ar subsequently repented him of the bargain, and Liu then brought his action. Liv, being loth to tell the story of his niece's suppressed the particulars at the with the result that he was called to Lin of damages were duly paid, and Liu when he had spent all the money, proceeded to bri complaint agsiuat Pfang in the yamen, and the case was, xs usual, sent down io the magistrate, but the hearing, for certain, reasons, having been Liu started off to Peking where ated a petition to the Emperor falsely charging P'avg Féog-ming with owing hi ey, abducting his, Lia's, wife, and his male. After pro: ceeding to quote at considerable length the law bearing on the subject, the Memorialiet re; orte that Liu P*éug-chao has been sentenced to banishment. to" remote frontier, a penalty which he will, however, be allowed to commute by money payment in view of the fact that he is blind. "Ho will further be called upon fo reftud the amount he wae paid as damages, and will be sent back to native place to he kept under strict pol Prang Feng-ming la held by law for his assault on Lin, inasmuch ax the woman was @ near relation and the law holds " relative blameless, under such circumstances aa the above, for inflicting injuries on the offending man excess of bronking bones," The wo-will be duly brought up before the magistrate and separately dealt with,—Referred to the Board of Panishinente, (8) The or-General Ts'én Vu. ying repor tention of abolishing a institution in Yunnan Fa known as the ch'u tsai kuan, or Hall for the Accumulaon of Talent, founded by the late yovernor of Yunnan in imitation of a si establishment organised by Hu Lin-y formerly Governor of Hupeh, The Hall for the accommodation of Talent has uow been in exi jor over a year, and hes entailed " ate for which no The rover twenty yours, and he hi alway found that meu of talent are quite ready to come forward when they hear they are wanted, Ho has derived much tance from this class of people, and he will not fail to be continually on the look out for talented re= cluses and men of universal knowles; We have taken evgu MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, At the Meeting of the Council held in the Board Room, No, 23, Kiangne Road, Shanghai, on Thuraday, the 17th Februay, 1887, at 4 u'eluck p.m, Present:—Mesers. A. G, Wood (Chairman), M. Adler, ''h. Bieber, P, Maclean, R. do Malherbe, G. J. Morrison, J. Seaman, and the Secretary. the Inst Meeting are read, d by the Chairman, and passed for publication, Cash Statement for the past week is aube mitted, and cheques for sundry accounts are signed.
General Municipal Rate, Native—Th following return for December Quarter is submitted Gusenat Mustcirat Rate—Narwve,
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