Shanghai has written to the Government of Yunnan to ask for contributions for the relief of sufferers from the floods in Honan. The Viceroy of Yunnan states that he and his colleagues have responded by subscribe ing according to their means; but the little they can give is merely, as a drop in the ocean. In view, therefore, of the tremendous nature of the calamity, he proposed that the price of salt from the Yunnan wells should be charged an additional tax of one cash per catty, and the receipts forwarded to Honan, In one year. this plan, would produce about 30, ings of cash. He will make arrangement for sending the money in advance and repaying it as the revenue comes in.—Approved by Reecript.
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