Tu the mouth of June lust there was an excess of rain, and the north and west rivers rose simultaneously in consequence of the floods which emptied ito them. 'This access of water being more that the channel could carry off, theembaukthe following Districts' were broken down hui Hsien a Prefecture; Kao-an ching Prefecture, of Ch'ing-yuan, Kuang-ning, Seii-hui K'ai-chien and Kao ming were also undermined by the water and carried away, flooding the fields and submerging the houses with some loss amougat th tion by drowing. In Canton in the west part of it the villages nity were under water, the already swollen stream being further raised by hight tides.
Upon receipt of reports from one district after another officers were sent in different directions by the Memorialists to inspect the extent of the mischief and to issue preliminary relief to the sufferers in cot cert with the local authorities. he disaster, however, is of such magnitude that the Provincial Committee has been ordered to provide funds and to supplement them by subscriptions organised amongst the officials at Canton, This money has boon entrusted to official agents with inateuctious to buy grain and to visit the various districts in steamers and furnish the sufferers with supplies of food and mousy. The grain accumulated last year
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