The Archive · 1893

THE EXAMINATION

The Hioht'ai of the Shang-kiang who is to examine the students from preparatory to the great examine arrived in' this city last Saturday and was received with the usual honours. He is a Shantung man, nained Wu La, and was the Han-lin First Honour man of the first year of the reigning emperor. The Hioh-#ai for the Hsia-king will not reach here until the fifteenth of the Chinese month.

He is a Manchu, an uncle of the Emperor, known by the name of P'u Liang.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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