There has been a serious secret so rising near the mouth of the Tung-thing Lake, arising out of some dispute as to the rights over lake-lands left bare by the retiring waters. Troops and gunboats have been sent to the spot.
The waters have not yet retired from Wuch'ang, and great misery is the consequence. AtNgankingthe distressed villagers are crowding in for relief, and the great heat is breeding pestilence among them.
The Hu Puo says the Buttery department of the Household is so short of funds that it has been obliged to borrow Tis, 500,000 at 7 per cent a year from a foreign hong" in Peking. The persons receiving payment will be charged 1 per cent a month for three months in consideration of this advance, and the borrowed capital will be refunded as taxes flow in during the autumn, The same correspondent confirms the statement that Mr. Mitkiewiez has lent Tis, 2,500,000 at very low interest to the Ti tsin authorities in consideration of receiving contracts for telegraphs, telephones, mints, road-making, &e.
Several bad cases of cholera are said to have occurred at Kashing and Hangchow. 'The country between Hangchow and Eh' chow is greatly flooded, especially the plain of Yung-k'ang city, which is completely swamped. The flooded area in An-huei, s very extensive, but the water has gone j down seven inches at Hankow, and there seems a prospect of a fair harvest. of the earlier rice crop after all.
The Shen Pao says that the Tls. 500,000 Joan made by the Formosan government was, after all, not from a German firm, as previously stated, but from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Tientsin,
is reported of Pao-ting Fu in Chih Li; suffering From severe drought, "The same The neighbourhood of Amoy is said to be
{and even in An Hui, despite the recent floods. There has been further serious loss of life on the Wenchow River, during violent storm, and both Ningpq and Sungkiang suffered from the recent, hurricane. Several of the coal mines west of Peking, usually closed during the warm season, are working this summer.
The Canton Viceroy reports that he has [ordered through the Chinese Minister in
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