Shensi, denounces two officers who appear to him to be no longer fit for occupying tions of trust. The magistrate of the hao-yi district has fallen into vicious and indolent ways, and has watched year after year the imminent danger to which a por-! tion of his district has for some time past been exposed by the encroachments of the Yellow River and the River Lo without reporting the matter and devising some remedy to stop the mischief. It was only during the present spring when the strip of land separating the two rivers had been reduced in places to little more than a chang Inbrendth that the magistrate was eventually aroused from his lethargy and induced to draw attention to the subject. Very shortly afterwards he handed in his resignation on the plea that his mother's death necessitated his retirement. There being reason to believe that the story of his mother's death was false, he was asked to produce the home letter which conveyed the intelligence, but pleaded the worry and excitement of the moment as an excuse for not complying with this request. The Governor suggests that he should be cashiered and intimates his intention of making enquiriesthroughthe Governor of Hunan, the delinquent's native province, as to the truth of the statement alleged for his hasty departure from Shensi.. The second officer denounced is an expectant Sub-Prefect, named Li Mien-hsien who was entrusted with the collection of the likin revenue in the province. Instead of acting in accordance with the established practice, he exacted sundry squeezes from the people, started a trafic on his own account in native opium, and indulged in shameless abuses of all' kinds for which degradation is the least penalty that he deserves.—Decree issued separately.
28th July.
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