Ho Kuang-siu, newly-appointed Colonel, ives thanks for the Imperial bounty. the Duke of Ting asks for five days' extra leave of absence from Court duties.
BROCADED AND EMBROIDERED SILKS FOR THE, court. ting T'ing, Imperial Commissioner of the Srochow' Government Silk Looms, reports the amount used by his department for the weaving of brocaded and embroidered silks ordered by he Household Department on behalf of His Majesty's Court during the year 1890-1. In 1889 memorialiet's predecessor was commanded by order of the Throne to prepare for the use of the Court and for Imperial presents 4,143 pieces of embroidered Court robes, flags (silk and satin), and brocaded silks of the heaviest kind, Owing to want of funds to defray the expenses of embroidering and weaving the required stuffs, the predecessor of memorialist obtained a respite, extending the time to supply the silk and satin goods to a period of two years. Since then memorialist has succeeded, by dint of hurrying on the contributions of the Provincial Treasury, the Shanghai Maritime Customs, and the Soochow and Shanghai Likin Bureaux, in sending up to Peking the required stuffs by the end of 1892, using the sum of Tls. 135,633, odd, about Tls. 700 for packing and freightage, and various other sums. The entire contributions of the above-named departments of Tls. 104,031 odd, together with the money already in hand, handed down by the memorialist's wedecessor, have therefore been found inadequate for the purpose in view, and memorialist now has to report a deficit of Tls. 2,302.27 which should be owing the weavers and embroiderers of his department. Memorialist, however, congratulates the Throne that owing to the instructions received from Peking, the various stufils sent up to the Court have been of a finer and thicker quality than has usually been the case in previous years, and also the brocades and embroidery work have been done with unusual case and thoroughness, the gold brocades and embroidery being exceptionally worthy of mention. In the meanwhile the deficit of Tls. 2,302 odd has been made good by a loan contracted.
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