The correspondent of the Hongkong Daily Press, writing from Takow on the 13th' ultimo, says that for the previous month or more the number of fever cases has been very large, At present there are between six and seven hundred mon sick, and about ten deaths occur every day. Those who succumb to the fever die usually about the tenth day after the commencement of the attack. body of five hundred soldiers embarked here for Keelung last week. They did not belong to the troops lately arrived, but to a regiment from the Province of Hoo-pei, which had been quartered in the island for some time, before the commencement of the Japanese expedition, Arroad is being made through the mountains from neighbourhood to Po-lam, s large village or collection of villages, situated in fertile plain on the Enst Coast, and inhabited by a friendly tribe of savages. The road-makers have been somewhat harassed by the savages through whose district the road has to pass, but the opposition has not been sufficiently serious to puta stop to the work. If it ever be completed it will be a wonderful step towards the opening up and pacification of the Southern part of the island. A largo ort has been commenced at Anping, which is intended to protect the sea approach to 'Taiwanfoo. It 1s to be armed with seven 20-ton guns from England, and garrisoned with fifteen hundred men,' The construc tion is being superintended by a foreigner, but the work proceeds slowly, The guns have already arrived at Hongkong.
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