CHINA AND JAPAN,
Floods have occurred in North China, . creating a famine. Two millions of people will suffer. ' .7 ■The well-known clipper ship Taeping h{j,s been lost off Cape James f 1 part of the crew are riiissing; '"■ ' * The barque Hotspur foundered, and 27 lives were lost. - The schooner' Rantipole, ship -Sinbad, the Japanese steamer Scotland,' and "the steamer Azoff, have; all been lost in the China and Japan Seas. -■ Western ideas are ' penetrating Japan rapidly. Travelling in the interior is now unrestricted. Railways in the streets and to. the country are projected. The Buddhist religionhas been disestablished, q,nd the monasteries confiscated. The export of native rice is permitted, arid a large trade ia expected. ; . Singapore, Nov. 21. \" The copper discoveries in Timor ' are worthless. ' "\, ':' ' :; ' ; , The telegraph expedition under Captain Halpin laid the cable successfully on the 20th, between Port Darwin and Java. '
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2
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143CHINA AND JAPAN, Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 2
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