Peking, July 15 The Central Government has raised half a million Taels to exploit the coal mines at Luanchou, on the Tientsin-Shanhaikuan railway near the Kaiping mines, and lias proposed to the Chinese merchants that they xhoold raise a similar amount in order to work the mines jointly with the Government. The British Charge protested against thi will prejudice the Kaiping mines which are worked by British capital.
Nanking, July 16. Yangtze has overflowed The inundations are specially serious opposite Chinkiang, near Yangehoutu, where the embankments are completely destroyed. The damage to the crops is very large; its extent can, however, not yet be exactly fixed, A large number of lives have also been List, for the floods have come with great suddenness,
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