Both natives and foreigners throughout the week have been deeply inter. ested in the bazaar that has been arranged by the Chinese, in order to assist those who have suffered from the floods. It has been an unexpected success, It cannot yet be known what the sam received will be, bat current ion amongst the Chinese says that it will not be less than $50,000. There has been an unusual amount of enthusiasm, because it is the first of the kind ever held by the Chinese, and there fore there is s feeling abroad that it must be successful, and that foreigners mirist see that they can be equalled by the natives. Then in addition to this, the object for which it has been arranged one that naturally touches the hearts and the pockets of the Chinese. In addition to the income from the bazaar, I have seen it stated that the Committee of the Tungwo hospital has already received towards the central fund in Hongkong nearly $250,000. The Chinese in pore have been very liberal. The third remittance received a day or so ago amounted to $10,000. The \'hinese popnistion indeed has done nobly. All this is in addition to what will be raised Canton. I saw a native gentleman here yesterday who has been. sent down from Canton to study the operations in Hongkong, and he told me that they intend to follow the lead in Canton. Then there will be the spirit of rivalry, and there is not the least doubt bat that a similar sum wil be subscribed there, when the bazaar is finished. It is quite likely that the entire amount given by the Chinese, apart from what the Government has voted, will amount toa half million dollars. Still the money will all be and there is some talk that, when the dykes are rebuilt, there must be some better material used. An example is given of a dyke, that was broken twenty years ago, and then repaired with some lime and chun am. This has stood the pressure this time, and is about the only one that did so in the whole district that was situated around it. It would be a grand thing if there were funds enough to enable those who are to rebuild these embankments to use some cement. Then the work would be done once and for all.
The sufferings of the people in the famine stricken districts must be terrible. It is said that in one district, namely, Saining, near the borders of Kuang-
"numbering about s thousand, and composed both of men and women, could not or would not until the boats of rice reached their villages, They came, moreover, determined not to go back empty handed, for they brought with them page and baskets, and so were to get their rice, and let the results and the future take care of themselves. The rice that they carried off amounted in value to about two thousand dollars. What action the authorities will take in regard to this Gerce attack is not yet known.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.