Another point in evidence that China moves may be interesting. We hear to-day that a canal is to be opened near us, the Jabourers to be the famine sufferers from the seventeen townships nearest here. This is after the ideas of the West as carried out in India last year. The distribution of the 18,000 piculs of rice which have just arrived from near Chinkiang begins ina fow days, "The rice is not free, but at a lower price than the actual cost.
Hstichien, 1st Janinry.
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