The Archive · 1887

Death of a Popular Authoress

Mrs, Craik is dend.-—Singapore Papers. FY Eh nese sources it appears that the ik i lia rs, Says that according to information received In ante Lat same Ge roed the translator

We learn from Chi-nan-fu, under date into the Ju River, which at Cheng Chou water escaped from the Yellow River has run 16th September, that the water in the is very near the Yellow River. From the Yellow River in that neighbourhood had. Ju River it is conveyed through Anhui into fallen to a few feet in depth, owing to the, the Huai River and eventually enters the breach in the banks and the inundations in #4 at the old mouth of the Yellow River Honan. No further intelligence from the near Huai-an Fu in Kiangsu, or else fol-scene of the calamity has reached us. lows the course of the Grand Canal south-We are informed that a telegram was ' wards from Huai-an Fu till it enters the received in Shanghai on Thursday from Yangtze somewhere between Chinkiang Peking, to the effect. that the question of, and the coast, The breach in the banks is Bonded Warehouses in Shanghai is settled, eecorten tpi tetas ho cee and that the necessary rules, papers, ete., prefectural districts hav would be forwarded here as quickly as' and their inhabitants drowned, possible. We further learn that for the! Yesterday Inspector Charters, who is resent, at least, the China Merchants' retiring from the Municipal police, was company will have the monopoly, and that presented with a gold watch by his comrades

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