The Shen Pao says that robberies by disbanded braves have been frequent on the Fukien, Kiangsi, and Chekiang common frontier where several secret society men kaye been arrested.
The Port Arthur correspondent of the Hu Pao says that the authorities have ven directions that the lighthouse shall removed from that place.
'Whole tracts within the walls of Nanking are several feet under water, and boatmen are plying a vigorous trade. "There is great uneasiness in' Kiukiang about the rice supply as that city possesses no hulling machines, and depends entirely upon im-Ports from Anhwei and the interior of kiangsi: but owing to recent floods the gentry of the rice districts have strictly prohibited the export of rice this year. Owing to the giving way of one of the sluices, a large teel or enclosed low-lying tract on*the Po-yang Lake between the Hwang-mei and Ta-hwa districts, has been submerged (uch in the same way as that of Szegedin in Hungary). Should the authorities not succeed in rapidly draining this tract the loss in taxation alone will be Tls. 10,000. South of the Po-yang Lake things are just as bad, and Feng-ch'éng district move expecially has suffered severe The Hangchow authorities have issued proclamations forbidding the harbouring of suspicious persons in hotels and other places of public entertainment in view of the recent arrests of secret. society men on the south-west frontier of Chekiang. Three taoists have according to different. correspondents been arrested on suspicion in ngchow and one in Yangchow.
The Hw Puo says that copper has been discovered at a place called Ho-yuan in Lien Chow, north Kuangtung, and that a local magnate is raising capital in shares in order to work the mine profitably.
At six o'clock on Friday afternoon a coolie fell down outside the East gate of Shanghai under an attack of cholera mor-bus; he was taken to the hospital and died jertly afterwards. According to the She, we, Soochow is 7" sume epideie which has already carried off about 100 people.
serious fire which consumed between
Soochow on Friday. twenty and thirty fine shops broke out Te is reported that the morenble railway between THmgchow and Peking, will be set down in the palace as soon as its present work is finished.
'A very large seizure of pistols, saltpetre, &c. was made in Shanghai on Saturday. The first seize the led to further and more extensive discoveries in inconveniently Hooded, and part of the Wu-ch x city, opposite Hankow, is still
city wall has given way. The distracted inhabitants have been deluding themselves ith the rumour that foreigners had been engaged to pump out the city by machinery.
yn on the borders of this province and "An-hwei has severely suffered from floods, whilst, singularly enough, several neighbouring districts have scarcely had sufficiency of rain.
Li, the new Envoy to Canton on Saturday, havi frontier delimitation labours.
The Shen Puo is very much pleased with the Foochow authorities for setting pr soners to work to clean the streets, an novation it recommends to all the provincial governors. country nround. Wueh'ang Futs inealcula-'The damage to life and ry in the
ble. Corpses of men and cattle have been counted by the thousand, and myriads of people have had to fly to the hills. The native Catholic journal says that the inhabitants of the great T'ai-p'ting Fu enclosure had already been ruined last year, and had just succeeded in getting their banks under repair, when last month 480,000 mow: of Innd Were once more totally swamped.
The Hn Pao says that ague and dysentery are playing great havoc with the troops in Formosa now engaged in preparing the railway line. Desertions are frequent, and the authorities are at their wits' end' how to keep the men together.
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