Liao Shou-feng, Governor of Chekiang, reports a serious gunpowder explosion in his provincial capital of Hangchow recently, and asks that punishment may be administered to the officials concerned whose negligence and lack of vigilance occasioned the catastrophe. Liu Tao-teng, Colonel and military officer in charge of the said magazine, and Yen Hsi-lan, a civil officer of the 9th grade, his assistant, are hereby ordered to be cashiered and dismissed the service. The department magistrate Hsii Kuang-yung, in whose jurisdiction the explosion occurred, and who was, therefore, in part also guilty of negligence, is also cashiered but allowed to retain his post.
25th January.
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