Some little time ago Sheng Ping-ch'éng, the recently appointed Governor of Kuang: fi, represented the inadequacy of his st of expectant officers, and asked permission to transfer some officials of this class from other provinces to assist him at the outset in the management of commercial questions and the adjustment of the likin revenue. One of these, Yang Hsiio-yuan, an officer who formerly served in Hupeh and who is a native of Canton, was on his arrival placed in charge of the Foreign Department, and from his knowledge of foreign questions and his intimate acquaintance with the order country between the two Kuang provinces, his services are likely to prove of great value. It is therefore asked that he should be permanently retained in Kuangsi and in the event of this request being favourably entertained, he will be called upon to pay the transfer fees usual in such cases.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.