(CHINA DAILY NEWS.")
6th July.
Decree commending some and cashiering others ameing a large number of department and district magistrates and directors of studies in the province of Chihli in response toa memorial by Yuan Still-kai, Viceroy of said province.
7th Suly.
(Pfu Shan, Imperial Clansman, is appointed Senior Vice-Commissioner of the Octroi Bureau at the Chungwén gate of Peking, and P'u Hsin (Imperial Clansman) Junior Vice-Commissioner of the same.
(2) We hereby select Lin Chrun-lin, a native of Ninghsien, Chibli, to be Optimus (Chuangyuan) of this year's class of nowly Hanlin graduates; Chu Ju-chen, of Tsingyuanhsien, Kuangtung province, to be Secundus (Pangyen); Shang Yen-Tia, Chinese Bannerman of the Tartar risen of Canton city, Kuangtung province, to be Tertius (T'anhua), and Chang Ch'iteh, of Szechou, Anhui province, to be Quartus (Ch'uanle) of said graduates.
Note:—A curious coincidence in names may be here observed; the name of the Optimus (the bighex possible'literary degree obtainable in China), Liu Ch'un-lin, being exactly similar not only in sound but also in characters to that of the Provincial Treasurer of Yunnan, Lia Ch'un-lin, who, as may be remembered by our readers, was transferred by Imperial decree yesterday to the Provincial Treasurership of Kuangsi—
Translator.
8th July.
(1) With reference to the memorial of the Board of Rites asking for instructions relative to the celebration of HIM. the Empress Dovager's seventieth birthday anniversary next November, We hereby command that the congratulatory obeisances shall be performed in the Jénshou Throne-hall, but that the banquets asd feasting usual on such occasions be stopped in the present instance.
(2) The adopted grandson of Prince Yi Mu, 4th Order, P'c Chun, is hereby commanded to change his name to that of P'u Chieh.
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