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PINY THE POOR MANDARINS.
* Very few people, we imagine, have any idea of the notual salaries allowed by the Chinese Government to its high officials. A list lies compiled by an authoritative source, the salaries attached to the various loon in the rich viceroyalty of Kiang- and the smallness of the figures set forth cannot fail to strike anyone having the casual knowledge of the immense sums by Chinese omcials out of their posts. contrast' between the stated salaries dit the actual“ emoluments of the high idarima» is," of “course, ridiculous, when we
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. Chechow, Taiping, Liuchow, Fengyang, and Ingehow is only Tls. 2,000 a year each. The Vice-Prefects, of whom there are eight in Kiangsu, Kiangge, and Anhwei, are sup- posed to be still more miserably recompensed by a trustful (P) paternal Government, the salaries ranging from Tls. 2,000 per annum allowed to the Prefect of T'ai-tsang, to Tls. 800, which forms the princely salary that rewards the poor Prefect of Sechow,, Is it any wonder that the name of the mandarins in China has become synonym for all that is extortionate and dishonest ? China Gasette.
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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT].
11th September:
The Leal Senado has received another from the Lisbon Government. By the last, English mail, which arrived here last Sunday, the Acting Governor received an official letter. from the Minister directing that in future the Leal Senado shall not address petitions or, other official communications, to the home Go- vernment direct, that no notice will besti
mber that the port of Shanghai Total, THE SERIOUS EARTHQUAKES IN petitions so addressed, and that in
in generally held for three years, is alarly supposed to bring its lucky occupant
profit of three million taels! But the salary attached to the office only smounts 14,400 for the three years. The spoils in the various other posts are doubtless well in proportion. Thus the Viceroy tene provinces, commonly called the vulgo Chet'ai, Trong t” official salary the ridiculous sum of Tls. 18,000 a year, for which hat of the German empire, and carry a supposed to rule over a population as large responsibility for the most trising a as the most weighty occurrences under his What the actual amount of plunder is ich a Nanking viceroy extracts from the office no one-not even a Chinaman-knows, but mt bé a vast sum. There are two governors, Biun-fu," vulgo "futais," in this viceroyalty, namely, the Governor of Spochow, who receives Ti: 12,000 a your as: oficini miary, and the Governor of Ankwei, who is supposed to keep in
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krow path of rectitude and duly maintain the diguity of his high oftes at Ngankin on Th: 2,000 per annum low than his confrère at Bodchow. “Then there are the twó Grand Exa.
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residing at Kiangyin and the other “fu, ouch with a salary of Tis, 4,000 për kuhuta. Each of these offices is tated by literary Chinese to be easily
cool million for its full term. There fred Grand Treasurers in Kiangnan; perfam; his brother guardian of the one it. Brockow if allowed Th. 10,000 revenue at Nanking Tls. 8,000; and the ind, at Ngankin, is supposed to keep his hands clean for s paltry Tla. 6,000 a year. three men deal with immense sums of mondy and the foolishness of expecting any man, much less s’Chinaman, to be honest with such glorious opportunities for malversation for a paltry stipend for Tls. 500 a month is appar- ent to everyone. The Grand Judges, of whom there are two, one at Soochow and the other at Ngankin, come next, the former being supposed to administer justice, that most precious of commodities; blindly and evenly for Tls. 8,000, and the latter for Tis. 6,000 per annum. Yet these are two of the richest prizes in the mandarinate! Next in the official hier- archy come the two Tribute Tsotais, vulgo Leang-tao." One who presides over the north of the Viceroyalty resides at Nanking and receiver only Tls. 3,000 as pay, while the Southern Tribute Taotsi at Soochow is allowed
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twice that sum. Next follow the ordinary Taotis, the " Fen-siun-ping-pei-tao," of whom there are sight on the Viceroyalty. Of these the highest paid is the Shanghai Taotai, who receives from the Government as to pay Tls, 4,800 a year, the Taotais of Nanking, Chin- kiang, Yanchow, and Soochow each receiving Tl. 8,000 official salary; those at Wuhu and Fungyang Tls. 3,200 each, and the poorest of the lots he of Ngankin, only Tls. 2,000 per annum., That is the official pay of the Taotsis. It would be interesting to know how many taméï the fixed jalaries have to be multiplied by ten to obtain the kotual emoluments of these offices. The Prefects come next to the In rank and pay, but they exceed them there being no less than sixteen in - Only three of them, namely, the of Nanking, Soochow, and Ngankin, salaries amounting to Tls. 3,000 each per he salary of the Prefects of Sungkiang, Chinklang, Hoaingan, Yangchow, being "Tin. 2,500 each, while the the chief officer in seven pre- maměly, Hỏichów, Ningchow,
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NORTH JAPAN,
must be sent through the local
and accompanied by the Governor's rem them. This is what the Leal Senado do Kobe, 2nd September.
wish. No doubt this body has been rather dis One of the first télégrams to come over the respectful to the Government. In any matter, lines from Tokyo since communication has been small or great, in which the Governor has not restored announced violent earthquakes in the fallen in with the views of certain members of district which only a few months ago was swept the Leal Senado, they have at once appealed by with such appalling results by the seismic wave. The telegram state that the earthquake was petitions that have been sent no answer letter of telegram to Lisbon. To the many experienced in Iwate prefecture at 5 p.m. on the 31st ult. Kamaishi, Yamada, and Miyado, come, and the Minister has now calamity in June, are now reported as being stand the reason the Lisbon Government -did three of the places which suffered severely by the disively intimated that this system is to be discontinued. The public can now under- seriously affected by the earthquake. The not reply to the argent telegram sent by the tremor appears to have been very violent right Leal Senado onghe 11th ultimo,« Serve them across the northern part of the island. Con- right" is the popular verdict on the members siderable damage is reported from Iwayado, of that body. The time is now drawing-nigh Eisabi district, and the inhabitants of Hana- for the election of the Leal Senado for 1897 and maki and Morioks, two fairly large places on 1898 and it is to be hoped the voters will ex the railway, encamped in the open air all night. ercise their franchise with due sense of the The Governor of Iwate was in Tokyo at the responsibility it places upon them and choose in- time and received a telegram about 10 p.m. dependent men, men who have no axes to grind, which contained the information that the load who will discharge their duties impartially, rumbling still continued in the vicinity of considering the public welfare only, and Mount Komagatake. The Governor left for without any desire of personal showing off. Morioka yesterday.
public, is responsible for our welfare, and if This Corporation is the representative of the choose the wrong men it is we ourselves who will have to suffer for it.
The Department of Communications received on the night of the 31st ult. a telegraphic report of an earthquake from Kurosawa-jiri, Riktċkin. The message announced that the
railway had been damaged, so that traffic had to be stopped at Koms.
last Monday. He has been sent out by the General Fernando de Magalhaes arrived here Lisbon Government to inspect all matters con-
him, guard of honour being posted at the nected with the military service here and in Timor. An official reception was accorded to
A telegram from the Governor of Akits Department states that the town of Rokugo despatched at 8.51 am. yesterday to the Home
Senbokü district, Akita prefecture, was totally destroyed by an earthquake on Monday after-Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Com noon. Only four persons are reported to have been killed. The town consisted of 1,061 houses.
Kobe, 3rd September. Further telegrams are to hand respecting the earthquake which occurred on the 31st ult. in the north-east, and though the information is still meagre, it indicates that the destruction of property is not so great as the previous telegrama suggested. The Governor of Akita reports that the villages near Mount Komaga take have been partially wrecked, one named Rokugo especially, where up to the morning of the 1st inst. only nine persons had been re- ported killed and a thousand houses wrecked. The loss of life in the whole group of villages is given as about 40. There are several wide fissures in the hill sides.
Reports from Aomori prefecture show that several villages experienced very violent shocks. From Obonai, Ugo province, and Omagari, con- siderable damage was reported on Tuesday and at the latter place the shocks were still continu ing.
A ferry boat on the river Kitakami foundered at the time of the earthquake and over 20 per- sons were drowned,
There have been 14 shocks at Miyako, 10 at Aomori, and 7 at Yamagata.
Akita, 1st September, Fire followed the violent earthquake at go and this was the cause of so extensive a de- struction of property-Kobe Chronicle.
pany's Wharf. General de Magalhaes has rendered great services to the Crown of Por- tugal. Your readers may remember that a few-- years ago, when the garrison and town of Oporto revolted with the object of overthrowing the Crown and proclaiming a republic the General was he was the only man who remained loyal to the the chief officer of the "estade maior" of Oporto; Crown and by his pluck and strong personal character he was able to check the revolution
and restore pençe.
attracted the attention of the Government and he was shortly afterwards appointed Governor Now, seeing that military affairs out here of Angola and afterwards of Mozambique.
has been sent out to put matters right. With required modification and reorganisation, he his great experience no doubt General Ma galhaes will be able to make an exhaustive and able report and to suggest to the Govern ment what is required. He will remain here three or four months only and will leave as
His conduct at that time
soon as the task for which he has been sent out is completed.
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The day before yesterday a committee- formed and subscriptions opened at the Club Uniso to prepare a grand reception for H. ESS Horta e Costa on his approaching return to the colony. The proposed pregramme, as it stand at present, is to erect triumphal arches along the route to Government House, to have illa
Roku.minations at night all along the Praya, and..
to hold a ball at the Club: The Governor, in well worthy of all these demonstrations:
The N. 0. Daily News says HM{ Spart will arrive at Woosung about the 25th there a week, then go up the weeks shooting, and return to the 17th November. She in Siberia and Korea with the seven other good cruisers, a fine Wanything in these wate
From the story told by the captain of the Tokyo-may, Bion has arrived at Shimonoseki from Vladivostock, it appears the Russian flag ship Pamiat Asovu ran ashore at a place between Gensan and Vladivostook. On receipt of the report of the disaster of the latter port the cruiser Hurik and sight torpedo boats were sont to the spot to render käsistance.
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