Flour has been scarce and high at T'ai-yuan fu and the price kept going up until it reached the unusual cost of 80 cash per catty. This was.because flour was being sent in large quantities to the famine districts in the worth of the province. At Inst the magistrate issued an order that nomoreflowr should be sent out of the city, thus relleving the anxiety of those who feared a flour famine. The rains have set in earlier than usual., It is reported that there have been heary rains in Shouyavghsien in
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