News received from Wuchang reports the gradual but steady subsidence of the floods in various patts of Hupeh provines, expecially in the region round sbout Wachang, Viceroy Chang Chih-tung his 10 given instructions for the strengthening the dykes and embankments along the Yangtao to prevent further incursions of the river in the future.
SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHERN CHILI, A Kalgan (Changchial'ou) dispatch reports that that place and other parts of Northern Chibli and Mongolia in the vicinity, have been visited by very cold weather similar to that experienced in the depths of winter in ordinary yests. A few days ago there was a severe hailstorm, which destroyed a considerable area of ripening crops, as well as injuring many people, horses and cattle. The hails'onos differed in size, ranging from the vize of a full grown peach to an ordinary French bean,
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