(1) Sung Fan, Viceroy of the Yun-Kuei provinces, reports the Successful suppress sion by his troops of an insurrection of bandits in the Kuangnan and _Ch'inpéh waits of Yunnan province. He states that he sent Tsai Piao, Brigadier-General of the Kaihua Circuit, wha in conjunction with the cashiered General of the Timan Circuit, Huang Ch'éng-hsing_ (cashiered for inability to prevent the Lolos from and g large numbers of the evening. They ally succeeded in restoring peace to the country. We are pleased *o learn that the insurrection has bea so speedily suppressed and in reward therefore, we restore the cashiered General his rank and les and further command that the Taotai Liu Ch'un-lin, chief of the Military Seeretaunt of Southern Yunnan, be recorded in the Goad Council books for immediate substantive promotion, for brilliant serices in the eampai Note:—It is significant that the Lolos who rebelled are simply ignored and only called brigands, probably to show the outside world that the whole empire is at pescedisturbed occasionally only by bandits and such restless characters, The Lolos have killed large numbers of Chinese and according to latest accounts hold their fastnesses intact, the troops being afraid of entering into the hills,—Translator Governor of Peklag.
(2) Wang Pei-yn is appointed a:
15th March.
(1) With reference to the death reported us yesterday of Wang Ytictsao, Governor kueichou, we hereby appoint Teng si, Gorernor-designate of Shansi, to the Kueichou Governorship, and Yit Hei (Manchu) ex- Shantung, appointed to Teng Hus-hsi, Yuan Shih-kai, acting Governor of Shantung, is hereby made substantive Governor of same.
(2) Liu Yung-fa_ is appointed Brigadier General of the Shibchieh Circuit of Kuanytung province, and Chang Min-hsi appointed tothe Nanyang Circuit of n—the two Generals exchanging posts, (8) Hu Chien-ch'u is appointed prefect of Hochoufu, Shantung province.
Hua Chin-show is. appointed Junior Vice-President of the Board of Works with control over the mints, and his acting post of Senior Vice-President of said Bourd, is hereby given ad interim to Li Tien-lin, 16th March.
We have already bestowed rewards in a former decree to our Ministers and officials of seventy yours of and above in honour of our thirtieth birthday anniversary this year. But it seems that we have omitted from among this number the name of the formerly degraded Viceroy of Szech'uan Li Ping-hong and therefore hereby command that the brevet button of the premier civil rank (P'ou-pin-ting-tui) be bestowed upon the said Li Ping-hény.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.