response to instructions sent the Ministry of Finance, his Honour Tsai, Taotai of this Port, transmitted on Monday last. the sum 200,000 to the Viceroy of the Min-provinces, at Poochow, ax the Shavghai contribution towards the entertainment of the American Battleship Fleet when it visits Amoy next autumn, judge of Kusngtang have conjointly appealed to H.-E. Sheng Kung-pao and his Honour Tsai, Taotai of this port, ty raise money fort fof the sufferers from the thods in that province, due to the overflowing of the hanks the North, Kast and West rivers, We understand that a meeting of prominent Chinese gentlemen, both of the foreign wats and the Native City and Suburhs, is to be held shortly to devise ways and means in saccoaring the flood sufferers in the South.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.