(CHINA DAILY NEWS.")
7th September. We have received a memorial from Li Hsing-jui, Viceroy of the Min-Ohé provinces (Fukien ud Chekiang), reporting great destruction of lives, crops, and houses by freshets rushing down from the hills, caused bya fortnight's incessant rains in the districts of Lungeh'i and Nanching, Fukien province, the freshets carried away embankments for a continuous distance of som~ six miles, thereby causing a great volume of water to break over fields, covered with ripening crops, washing away in its onward course houses and exttle and hundreds of men, women, and children: drowning nearly al'. Ina wort, the disaster has been very extensive and the survivors are on the point of starvation. We feel deep pity for, and sympathy with our poor people at the unexpected calamity which has overtaken them, and we hereby command the said Viceroy to love no time in sending immediate relief to the sufferers, at the same time taking steps tu raise sufticlent fonds to form a permanent Relief
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