Recent Floods: Gentry Planning Relief for the Poor Frow Ocr OWN ConnesroNoeNt Hangchow, July 8, 'The me-tien still goes on, but the aam has not been so heavy' the few days, and the river is gradu: ally subsiding. The Chamber of Commerce and gentry yesterday me! and talked over plans for providing for those who have suffered through the floods. The crops between here amd Shanghai have not been dam: aged much by the heavy rains, but those growing on the banks of the Chien-tang, exe plants, white vegetables, melons, ete, have been practically all destroyed, and at present the prices of these in the city are beyond the purses of the poor and with rice frightfully ex-Fensive, they are to be General Lin Hyang-tin left this morning.for Ningpo by way of Shaohsing, in onder to mopest the coast defences.
Yesterday at the Assembly: there were one or two heated speeches in connexion with Government grants being made for private schools. One said this and another said that, and the affair engl in a general uproar and free fight, and the
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