tember 1d4th.—(1) The reports which in during the fifth moon of the pre-x from the majority of the districts si enable the Governor to affirm that generally been a seasonable fall of rain, and that the yield of the crops that had been harvested, as well as the state of those that were still growing, as to re-assure the Imp on the subject. Three districts, however, form an_ exception. Tu Yiilin, Chéunchus and Yung. in had fallen in torrents, accompanied with sional hailstorms. In the first-mentioned district the summer crops on over 40 shaw of ground give no promise of harvest. Some 20 shany of land in autumn crops were visited by the storm, but little damage was done as they were not yet in braird. In Ch'un-hua twenty were drowned by the floods, but bath crops of wheat had previously been sav The were not above gr and suffered little damage. In the Yun show viet six villages and market towns, covering a breadth of some seven or eight 1 of country, were flooded, and the watercourses on level ground rose from ten to twenty feet in hi The grain on the threshing-Hloors wa completely swept away and twenty-two peuple were drowned. Re: lief measures have been set on foot for the Denetit of the sufferers, and the collect of the land tax has been stopped pending the result of inquiries that are being made to ascertain to what extent it ought to be remitted. The price of rice at Hsi-an Fu as Tls. 1.3.7 per picul and that of small millet Tls. 0.9.4. As compared with the previous month, rice has risen nine can-darens a picul, while in millet there has been little change.
REMISSION OF DUTY ON COPPER AND LEAD
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