The Taotai Yuan Pao-lin, formerly Director of Works at Port Arthur, died on
by that malady at the time ho was about the 16th of apoplexy, He was first visited signing the contract with the French Syndicate for the Port Arthur harbour works. Since then the late Taotai has been in retirement in a semi-lethargic state, and unable to recover the use of his limbs.
The low lying country between Ma-tou a wide expanse, both (4 rain and by Chang-kia-wan is deeply flooded over breaches in the Peiho banks, so that the journey by land to Peking has become both difficult and dangerous unless a long circuit is made, The droves of ponies that are coming in from Mongolia hava to aim the flood for 1 or 2 li, and the flood waters have such a strong current that ferry boats have been upset and many people drowned. The crops in the flooded districts are, of course, destroyed, and the unfortunate villagers are
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