During the restoration of Shanghai last year, a certain volunteer corps, raised locally, was the first to enter the city and occupy the Taotai's yamen and the Shanghai Magistracy. When order was restored, this corps was known as the Patriotic Disciplinary Corps, and it was stationed in the Second Hall of the Magisterial yamen to main-now. As there is no such office in the temporary official system of Kiangst, Mr. Li has petitioned Governor Chen to abolish it forth-his duty as Chief Civil Administrator to conclude on August 31 last. Mr. Li left here for Nenking on September 1 with the wooden seal, documents, ete., which he handed to the Governor in person. He has returned, and the office at the old Taotai's yamen was closed on September 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.