(2) The Governor of Kiangsi he is forwarding to Peking a remittance from the Customis Taotai at Kiukiang for the use of the Steward's Department of the Inperial Household. The remittance consists of three items. First, there has been collected at Kiukiang during the past year, under the head of "three per cent, for excess of scales," a sum of Tls. 9,676. from which has been disbursed for benefit of the said department, as per accounts rendered, a sunt of Tis, 9,643.3.8, leavingabalancedue is, 2.5.9.8, Secondi; there is the taotai's anti-extortion allow: ance, Tis, 1,000, which is annually forwarded to the department. Lastly, there is a third sum of Tls. 9,25 collected in 1885 for difference of scales, KO-HEARING OF AN APPEAL CASE, August 13th.—The Governor of Honan reports the re-hearing of a ease in which an appeal had been carried to Peking by a student named Chou Tien-chia living in the Mi-yang District. The appellant's father, Chou Chen-tung, was the son-in-law of Tuan Chiing-h The latter had a nephew who died leaving a wife and a little daughter. The widow, being anxious to marry again, was betrothed to aman ina neigh-Vouring village, and it was arranged that the daughter should renin with her mother until she came to ago, when Tuan Ch'ing-hsitan was to see to the girl's settlement in life. When she was nineteen, Chou Chen-tung was sent to consult her mother on the subject of her marriage, The mother declined to give up her daugh-one ti who was present at the ter, and was supported in her refusal by into: -tung, being annoyed at this, went armed one night, after a drinking bout, to Tuan Keng-hsin's house, and gave vent to much abuse on being refused admittance. Tuan himself did not appear, but his son, Tuan Liu-ch'éng, who happened to return home at the moment, was violently assailed by Chou Chen-tung. A scuffle ensued between the two men, which resulted in Chou being disarmed and fatally wounded. Tuan Liu-ch'éng made his escape with the assistance of relative named Ming-chi, but was subsequently arrested and sentenced to strangulation after the autumn assizes. Chou Tien-chia, the son of the deceased, suspected that. Ming-chi, with whom he had once had a dispute about a building site, was the real murderer of his father, and that the man had been screened from punishment by the official underlings. Acting upon this mnisapprehension, he got a strolling fortune-teller to write out a highly coloured version of the case, with which he started for Peking.
for his father and is not thought to merit His action was Prompted by affection punishment. The settlement of the case, which has been under consideration for several years, has been delayed by the
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