THE YELLOW RIVER. Villages Ordered to Have Boats in Readiness.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 268, 30 May 1888, Page 4

THE YELLOW RIVER. Villages Ordered to Have Boats in Readiness.

The Sh inglifii ' Meicmy ' piint^ tliLs dip- j patch, lccehed at Chinklang horn llonan : i Tiic Jisiens ot \\ ci-azc and Chungman j were flooded, and the people in the city aie in a desperate condition. It .says : Thcie now appeals to be HUle doubt thai, the bioach in the Yellow river embankment is- beyond repairing this season, ;md this summer will witness another fenriul calamity greater e\on than that of last Minmici. The repair ol the gap at Ching chow is iinpo&sible. Jt cannot be completed by the spring. The water has lisen in Wciaze and Chung-10, and the water in the city is novcial feet deep. There is great consternation in the city, as in the third moon the water always vises considerably, and the distress of the inhabitants will bo great. Mr Muirhead has sent the following note to the " North China Daily News " of Watch 27th :— " The news received yesterday iioni the inundated districts in IJonan eoniinnh previous letteis as to the fas oui able condition of the people tor the pit-sent. At Cheng- Yang Kwan, an imjjortant mart at the southern bend of New Yollow river,

Mic mandarin? havo i&sncd a proclamation telling the people to prepare boats for themselves, a-> they arc afraid of a grout flood destroying tl\o town. It has, ofcourse, distressed' the natives very much, wlrilo it calls upon them to do what is an impossibility to tlioni. Such in tho opinion ot the TTiHsionajic on the spot, and it indicates (lint the yap is not likely to bo closed, so that (ho iiioioasod volume of water commencing in Apiil, as Mr fat-on informed the wtiier, will, itji- feared by^t-ho authorities, be pioducti\e of ieniblo results."