The Superintendents of the Peking Granaries and the Governors of the Metropolitan Prefecture state that every winter the soup-kitchens at tungchow receive an. low ance of 800 piculs of rice, with addi tional grants in times of exceptional distress. Owing to the recent calamitous fouds Tungchow is now thronged by an unusually large number of destitute per sons, and memorialists therefore request that' on this occasion the usual annual grant of 800 piculs may be increased to 3,000 piculs and that, in view of the small quantity' of millet'in store in. the Tungchow granaries, the extra 2,200 piculs now applied for shawld consist of rice instend of millet. The necessary expenses for fuel, wages, ete., will be defrayed as in former years by the committee of gentlemen charged with the management of the soup-kitchens, any deficit being met by the Governor of the Metropolitan Prefecture
lished. and his colleagues:—Aeseript already pub In an earlier memorial the Governor of Shantung reported the arrival in that province of the fleet of grain-junks conveying the tribute-rice from Kiangpei, There being plenty of water in the southern section of the Grand Cunal the. boats proceeded rapidly on their voyage through Shantung, arriving at Shihlip'u on the lith July, Here a week's delay occurred as the Yellow River was found to be running very high, and the officials in charge the grain fleet were unwilling to run the man by naturalization, Captain Christe a itis of Leaving the Canal, By the 17th was able to count friends who had learnt July the stream had somewhat subsided, to respect and esteem him among citizens of and the lock yates were thrown open, but every nationality. His last ship was the before all the boats had passed through, a Omi Maru (in Command of which Captain further rise in the river occurred, which John Wynn has succeeded him), but he delayed the rear division of the fleet till the will be remembered best by the majority of 28th. On that date all the junks succeeded Japan residents as the skipper of the old in effecting the passage of the Yellow River, Candia, better known in these days as the and reached Taoch'eng on the opposite Wakaxowra Maru. The veteran exptain—he celebrated his seventieth birthday just junk, On the following day they began to pass through the luck-gates, and by dint of before leaving—first came to the East in working day and night were all tracked 1864, in command of the P. & O. 8.8. Cored, into the canal by the 2nd August. but resigned shortly after arriving and Memorialist has given renewed orders to returned home. He has seen service in all "hurry the fleet on through Shantung as fast parts of the world, though the major p"rtion fas possible. of his life as a commander has been spent
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