for the Palace, the Governor of Kirin stated In forwarding the last supply of ginseng that the season for collecting it was pst, and the work could not be resumed till the coming summer. His officers have now succeeded in securing further quantity, namely eight large stalks and fourteen of medium size, weighing together nine Chinese ounces and two-tenths. It is all mountain ginseng of first quality. The cost of collecting it comes to Tls. 1,889. Tt has been packed with great care in two boxes and entrusted to an officer who will convey it to Peking.—Noted.
RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN MANCHURIA, The Governor at Moukden refers to a memorial which he presented last aay, or August, concerning the distress caused by
king, He was then allowed to expend floods in portions of the province of Sheng-'Tis, 30,000 in relieving the poor; and he used the money in supplying food for ten soup kitchens, which he established in the suffering districts. He now reports that in the parts of the country where the floods were deepest, the water did not disappear early enough to permit a fresh sowing to take place; and that on the slightly higher lands, where it retired carlier, though buckwheat, vegetables and similar suitable crops were planted with all possible speed, still the occurrence of early frosts prevented some of these from coming to maturity. At the time of harvest the sturdier of the people were able to go away into other districts, and earn money for the moment by helping in the fields; but there still remained a crowd of applicants for food at each of the depots, varying from three or four thousand at the larger ones down to about thousand at the smaller. When all agricultural operations are finished snd the severe cold has commenced, it is certain that both the weak and the strong will alike be applying for food. The Tls. 30,000 which sufficed for immediate necessities in the summer will not carry the people through the winter. The local government, however, is not possessed of surplus funds; and the only plan which the memorialist can suggest is to have recourse to the public granaries throughout all the districts in the provine, in accordance with the precedents sat in times of distress six years and four years ago. The amount which the ist proposes to take from this source is fifty thousand piculs, the whole of which he would deliver to the soup kitchens already established.—Approved, Rowzanps' Katypor.—A soothing cooling, emollient milk for the skin. It prevents and removes freckles, tan, sunburn, redness and roughness of the skin, soothes and benis stings of insects, eczema, prickly heat, and all irritations, produces soft fair skin'and a lovely delicate complexion. It is warranted free from any lead or mineral ingredients, and is perfectly harmless to the most delicate skin. Bottles 2. 84. and 4s, 6d. Ask for RowtaNns' Katypor, of 20, Hatton Garden, London. 2
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