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“...list for promotion of their respective ranks and to give them leave to wear the button of the higher rank in the meantime.-Re- quest granted. 22nd January. The greater part of to-days Gazette is taken up with an appeal case fpom Shan- tuiig which does not however present any features of interest. INCREASE OK THE MILITARY ESTABLISH- MENT IN ILI. The Acting Governor of Hi submits a proposal for increasing the forces under his command by 1,090 rank and file, i.e. a brigade consisting of one battalion and one patrol of infantry and four banners of cavalry together with the necessary officers and camp followers. This is part of a scheme originated by his predecessor who nfortunately died while engaged in working ut the details. The great extent of terri- ory to be patrolled renders such an increase ery necessary.Let the Board consider the uestion and reportthe estimates submitted y memorialist to be handed to the Board. 23rd January. REWARDS TO VIRTUOUS WOMEN. In 1868, Liuchou, a city...”
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“...Chihli, and have received by way of reward permission to erect memorials to the authors of these charitable deeds. 14th and 15th February. APPOINTMENTS. Sung Kuei-chii and Fo Yu-chcii are appointed Superintendents of the Live stock and House duty at Peking for the current year. EXPLOSION OP GUNPOWDER AT T£AIPING FU. The Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kiang states that he has received the following communication from the Admiral in charge of the Yangfcse. The powder magazine of the Central battalion under my command is situated in the S.E. comer of TPiping Fu. It is removed at some distance from other houses and stands on a waste piece of ground surrounded by a moat. The Colonel in charge in accordance with the regulations appointed the Captain of the right patrol, governor of the magazine, but as that officer had many other duties to perform the special care of the powder devolved on an expectant Lieutenant named Tang. On all occasions, however, when any powder was received into or issued...”
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“...28 [Mar. 14 in question after the lapse of several years show signs of having been well drilled ap- plication may be made to reward one or two of the officers. In memorialists opinion the results displayed at this last inspection justify him in making such application and he would ask that the Colonel of the one battalion be granted the brevet rank of Brigadier General and that to the other be awarded a button of the second class. J^et the Board of War consider and report. LEAVE ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH. Chang Shun, the Governor of Kirin, sends in an urgent application for a months leave oil the ground of ill health. He would point out that when serving near Chiayii- kuan (Kansu) constant exposure to cold and damp very seriously affected his health. At the time it was impossible for him, on account of the urgent nature of the ser- vice on which he was engaged, to return to Peking and place himself under inedical treatment, and the result is that every spring and summer his legs swell...”
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“...appearance seemed to be made with a view to re- organisation, but to which it was not expedient to assent until the matter had been more closely gone into. Read by the light of memorialises subsequent information these schemes would ap- pear to have been proposed with a view to furthering Chi Kao-huis private interests, and a deputy was appointed to make secret enquiry into the matter. After this step had been decided upon a further report was made by Li Shoa- fang, an ocer attached to the central battalion of the Tunyang Brigade, to the effect that the three battalions of horse and foot soldiers constituting the Brigade had hitherto always beer up to the full strength of 620 men. however last year Chi Kao-hui took com- mand he at once dismissed some 110 men and sold 42 horses, while insisting that the officers concerned should draw pay and allowances for them as before and hand the amount over to himself. In this w&y in the course of three months he appro- priated over Tls. 2,000. In the 4th moon...”
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“...military graduate Hang Hsing-yiian but when these came to be investigated by the Kueichow Pre- fect he took up the ground that he was an ocial of rank and refused to answer all questions. Memorialist accordingly asks for permission to immediately degrade him in order that he may be put on trial and duly punished. 10th November. malpractices of a military official. Ma Chao-tung, acting General of the Yungchow Brigade, Hunan, got to learn that Hsieh Shang-yiian, a captain of the Ling-tung battalion stationed in a remote part of the province on the borders of Kuangtung, was a notorious appropriator of public funds and guilty of quite a number of malpractices. An officer was detached to make a secret- investigation into the matter and from enquires made on the spot it was ascertained that the rumours current about Hsieh were all in accordance with fact, and a statement was drawn up of the more flagrant abuses of which he had been guilty. During the five years lie had held the post, the number...”
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“...having, however, already been made up complete for the period in question, the above amount will be carried forward and credited in next years account. 15th November. POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO A TAOTAI. The Emperor acknowledges the receipt of a memorial from Wang Wen-shao, the Viceroy of Yiinnan and Kueichow, in which he solicits the bestowal of posthu- mous honours upon Wu TzU-fa, who waa formerly Intendant of the Kuei-tung circuit in the latter province. The deceased officer accompanied a battalion of Hupeh troops during the Taiping and Nienfei rebellions and did excellent service on the Imperia- list side. Later on he quelled a rising of the Miaotze in Kueichow and exerted himself so strenuously in restoring the country to its former state of tranquillity that hia name is still cherished in the hearts of the people. The Emperor ig pleased t confer upon him all the honours, accorded to an officer of his rank who dies from the eflects of hard service in the field, and has further sanctioned...”
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“...issued by the memorialists couched in earnest language calculated to remove the popular suspicions. Wuhu is an important centre of trac on the Yangtze, with a mixed population of good and bad characters, which renders the preservation of the peace there at all times a matter of the utmost concern. The military force at Wuhu being somewhat slender and insufficient for the local re- quirements, the Viceroy, after consulting by letter with his colleague, despatched General Tan Kuei-lin, with a battalion of Hunan troops, to take up a strategic position at the port and remain there permanently for its protection. An ex- pectant Taotai on the Kiangsu staff, named Tsai-chiin, was deputed to assist the acting Customs Taotai, P^ng-lu, in coming to an arrangement with the missionaries respecting the buildings and property that...”
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“...able notice of the Emperor Tung Chih, he was created a Bei-lfh and granted the decoration of the three-eyed peacock feather. On the death of his father he inherited the title of Prince of the first order and became a Minister of the Presence and Chamberlain of the Guards. Having been raised to the rank of lieutenant-general in the Manchu army, he saw active service in Fengtlien against mounted robbers and was subsequently appointed a high minister for holding reviews and given command of the battalion known as chien jui. On our accession to the throne, we conferred upon him repeated marks of our favour, giving him the control of the Peking field force, of the Imperial Equipage department and of the Imperial Armoury, in all of which posts he acquitted himself with scrupulous care and unflagging energy. He had recently received leave to enable him to return to hia home in order to complete the funeral arrangements of his parents and we had hoped that on hia return to Peking he might long continue...”
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“...would were it massed at one point, nor can it render such ecient service as it could do were it possible by posting detachments at certain central positions to hold the country in check. Memorialist has heard that the Governor of Shantung proposes to dismiss about five hundred of the Sung Wu Chiinwho are too old for active service, and as the funds for the mainten- ance of this force are defined by Honan meniorinlist would request permission to utilise the money thus savepin enlisting an extra battalion for service in his own province, where it would be most useful in maintaining order.TLef the Board concerned consider and report. 22nd December. IMPERIAL DECREE. Te Ling, a ceremonial usher, is at the instance of the Grand Chamberlain to be delivered to the Board for punishment for that he did yesterday conduct in an im- proper manner a certain portion of the services in connection with the solemn sacrifices on the occasion of the Winter Solstice. CASE OF ABDUCTION. Towards the end of June...”