NEWS FROM CHINA
(PER PRESB ASSOCIATION,)
Thursday Island, Ootobar 3.
A steamer which arrived to day brings Chinese-news to the 19th September. The exclusion of Chinese from Australia is still a topic of interest. The native leading papers have again and again indignantly protested against the action of the Australian Governments, and a strong native party is making tha I most of the opportunity to poison tha minds of the natives against all foreignere.
Severe floods, equalling those of the years 1886 and 1887, have devastated several districts, and great misery prevails. The rivers at Nankin and Pekin broke through their embankments and flooded a large extent of country. Another fearful catastrophe occurred on August 13th m the Foki-en province, when 7£ inches of rain fell hetween night and morning, and an immense body of water came suddenly from the hills and swept away about twenty villages, It is estimated that 10,000 lives were lost m the floods.
Several high officials have been, degraded for negligence and dilatorinesß m repairing breaches made by floods m tha Yellow Kiver some time ago. A scheme for re-building the city of Tokio ( Yeddo), the capital of Japan and the residence of the Emperor,, and making it a new city emblematic of modem progress, has bean officially sanctioned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 4 October 1888, Page 2
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214NEWS FROM CHINA Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 4 October 1888, Page 2
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