The Governor of Kiangsu presents a report concerning the tribute rice for this yest from the pare of Kiangeu south of the yangtze. One hundred thousand piculs of it will be sent to Peking by the Grand Canal, and sixty thousand piculs are re-ti for the relief of distress in the Chinkiang and Yangchow neighbourhood while the remainder will be despatched as usual by sea, partly by junk and partly by the steamers of the China Merchants' Company. The first fleet of junks consisted of sixty vessels, and they have been laden with 140,000 piculs of rice. By the 23rd of March they had all been laden and loft Shanghai for the port of Shihhsiao in Tsungming, whence they would sail northward with the first favourable wind.
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