From tie "Norra-Cuina Darty News' or Aucusr 26, 1877
Ting Pao-cheng, the newly appointed Governor-General of Szechuen, seems to be playing havoc among the officials of his new jurisdic tion. The Gazette of August 10, is full of denunciations of department and district magistrates who have been misappropriating public monies, squeezing the people, or otherwise mis~ conducting themselves. One department comes in for especial rigour; under circumstances which suggest that the Viceroy's attention may have been directed to it before he started for his post. Yeo-Yang was distinguished for a Series of years as the scene of continual disturbance between the Roman proselytes and the non-Christian Chinese, and by the murder of more than one priest. Two magistrates of this department are impeached, one as "regardless of the people's affairs and possessed of but mediocre ability," the other as guilty of "unauthorized exactions on his own behalf, and devoid of compassion for the people." "The probability is that both have been really accused of hostility to the Christians, and failing to maintain order, pee STS earn
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