'OLD Post.
Ch'én Yung-ching, Brigadier-General of Tinghai in the Chusan Tslands, reports his return on the 13th of May to'Tinghai from his acting post at Haimen, Chekiang, to which place he had been sent last. January, to act for the retiring Brigadier-General of Haimen. On the 3rd of May a despatch from Sung Chun, Governor of Chekiang, was received by the memorialist informing him that the "Throne had been pleascil to. appoint Sun Ch'ang-kai to Haimen and afterwards this officer arrived at Haimen to whom the memorialist handed over the seals and insignia of the stid post. Havi done this, memorialist returned to Tingh: and on the day following his arrival took over his seal-and insignia of office, a proceeding which he is bound by law to report to be Throne.—Reseript: Noted.
14th June.
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