The Chinese Minister at Tokio, Li, having sent over three Japanese well sinkers, and Japanese artesian well machinery, an experiment was made with it at Tal-peh-fu, North Formosa, and water obtained at 200 feet, and it is considered that much good will' be done by sinking wells with it in the districts recently brought under tillage, 6,000 barrels of Portland cement have hech imported by sailing-ship forthe forts oni the Formosa coast.—Ibi On the 28th September there was a tremendously heavy fall of rain at Ningpo, which lasted all night and well into the 29th, and did s grent deal of damage to the tieoselds around Ningpo, the country people who came in to the city reporting that the torrents had carried down rej avalanches of mud and stones from the into the plain, Hu Pao.
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