The Archive · 1893

Return of Literary Chancellors to

PEKING, Their Excellencies Chow and Ying, specinl Imperial Commissioners, sent from Peking to examine the candidates at the recent chijén examinations at forted on their return j to the capital overland on the 4th i instant, while the Imperial Commissioners sent by the Throne to Navking, Their Excellencies Hu and Wen, started northward from the last-named' city on the 9th instant. It is worthy of note that none of these four high dignitaries of the Throne accepted a cent of the usual fees given on such occasions by the local authorities on the route, which in this province of Kiangsu would amount to some thirty thousand taels,

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