The Governor of Chekiang has been ordered to send the Peking Government Tls. 220,000, and the Imperial Household Tls. 50,000, from the duty and likin collected by hint on salt during the present year. In accordance with these instructions he lias now despatched Tls. 80,000 in the charge of an officer, who will travel by steamer from Shanghai to Tientsi MILITARY FARMS IN KOBDO, The ten military farms in Kobdo produced last year 7,493 piculs of grain. Of 760 piculs have been retained at the farms for seed, and the remainder lodged in the Kobdo granary. The crop is thirty per cent. above the fixed estimate, and therefore rewards are requested, accord precedent, for the officers and. head labourers at the farms.
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