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Most distressing news has been received from the missionaries in Honan of the destruction and loss of life caused by the outbreak of the Yellow River. They speak of oraging sea, north ofthe place where they were in that province, 450 li in length and at least 150 1i broad. The wave re beat against the walls and in one city, Cheo-chia-Keo, 50 streets have been swept away. Millions' are supposed to have been made homeless and are in " state of absolute destitution, The former bed of the Yellow River is now dry, and what used to be its direetic The son yen ago, ma bee, has been resumed.
taken place. The officials are said to be doing the best they can, but there is need for all possible help from others. The community here and outsiders cannot be expected to do what they so munificently Gid during the time of the Shansi famine, but subscriptions will readily be received by the Rey. Mr, Muirhead and Mr. S. Dyer, for distribution by the missionaries among the sufferers in the districts thus exposed to such overwhelming calamity. The Memorials and Reports from Honan which appear in the Peking Gazettes in! to-day's issue give what is doubtless a min-mised account of the disaster from the breaking of the banks of the Yellow River. Chinese officials never tell the whole truth auch Reports, though they heap blame upon themselves and pray for punishment, but what they now reveal, coupled with the above, shows how awful the calamity has been. We hope to have particulars of the inundations and its effect on the people before Jong, in, the, meantime our com: munity is responding liberally to the appeals nese white marble tablet, and on it are cut the names of those whose remains are lying in the Cemetery. Some of the deaths for help which have been' made. "Sin ce date back to 1851, and at the toy of the writing the above the following has reach-stone are these words, "Erected by an ed us through the native s:—The officer of the U.S.S. Bfarion in memory of latest news about the Yellow River is that the following men-of-war's men, the head the breach is 5,600 Chinese feet broad, and boards originally placed over their graves has eaten down 3 feet into the river bottom. having become effaced." The stone was Over 3,000 villages in the Ching-mou and put up recently.
Ch'én Chou districts have been swept away.
In our general notice of the racing we Material for stopping the gap will have to Arewattention to the excellent arrangements be fetched from a distance, and the cost of made by the police for the regulation of doing this work alone will be Tls. 7,000,000. the trafic, when everyone was leaving the The following additional subscriptions to course at, once, through one of the largest: the fund for the Relief of the sufferers crowds that a race-day has ever drawn tothe Yellow River inundations have been gether: for we have never before seen the receive Chinese standing three or four deep down China Merchants' both sides of the Maloo, and every carriage Messrs. Russell & Ca. 500 that the native livery stables own must have Carlowitz & Ca. 500 deen out with a freight. A correspondent Butterfield & Swire. 500 asks us to take special notice "of the exis. Siemssen & Ca. 500 tremely efficient police regulations by which The China & Japan Trading Ca. 300 Messrs. Fearon, Low & Ca. 300 the great throng of carriages and jinieshas was kept in such excellent order at the end Gibb, Livingston 100 of exch day's races." It was especially 2 Iveson & Ci 100 noticed by those who happened to be dri-Pustau & Ca, 100 ving from town just as the mass of people Dyce & Ca. 100 were returning from the course; and. it The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha - 100 Messrs. Barlow & Ca. "Ts. 50 ent, and be finds this impremion confirmed made a great impression on our correspond:
A few days ago, the officials atthe Arsenal, everywhere by others, and as the police wishing to show their appreciation of the have been too often made the subjects of services rendered to the Chinese, especial]; raillery here, it is only fair that when they the families of their employes, sent through do as well.as they did last week, their Mr. Fryer the sum of 100 taels to the success should be publicly recognised; and Margaret Williamson Hospital. we have much pleasure in giving them this Proclamations having been posted up recognition. about Shanghai by H.B, Lin Ming-<huan, Admiral Hamilton made a trip to Pootung Governor of Formosa, calling for soldiers, on Monday morning to inspect the steams many applicants put, in an appearance on that is being put up in Messrs. Boyd & Ca, Tuesday, but as only one hundred men were required, the rejected candidates youl for the, Upper Yangtze Navigation Company. Work has gone on very fast on caused a disturbance at the place near the her, under the superintendence of Mr, South gate, where the recruiting officer Monk, and her plating is all in place, and was stationed. In the end, the city autho-being riveted. There are some novelties rities had the proclamations taken down. in her construction, which make her worth On Thursday was the anniversary of the visit, She is n'stern-wheel boat, with birthday of the Emperor of Japan. Most two wheels, but instead of the flat duck's of the Japanese in the settlement displayed stern and three rudders before the wheels, flags from their windows, and in the even-which most of the American boats have, ing the Japanese Consulate was illuminated she has very fine lines aft, and one balance with lanterns and gas, the latter being in rudder behind the wheels, which is expected the form of a chrysanthemum. to have as much power as the other system gives. Her plating is of Siemens steel, run-leave by the Oxus on Thursday morning Dr. Bushell, of Poking, returned from ing Tis, to the square foot or rather less and left for Peking by the El Dorado on than three-sixteenths of an inch inthickness, Friday morning. the object being to make her light but 'On Tuesday evening, the installation of tough, the advantage of using this steel the officers of the Ancient Landmark Lodge being' that if a rock strikes it, it bends, took place at the Masonic Hall in the and does not crack or split, as' wood and presence of about seventy members of the iron do. The engines are on the way out Masonic Fraternity, the W. Master elect, in the Oopack, and it is expected that the oat will be ready to make her experimental
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