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Show China By the steamer Colorado 1 I we have interesting news from China. Farther news has oomo to hand con- ! corning tha revolt of the Lingshan Tsien people in Hainan. It is stated that starvation caused tho poor to rob the rich. A public granary was ransacked, ran-sacked, and tho turbulent populace were masters of tha plaoe for several davs, and the Maodaiic was completely powerless. Where tho police cr soldiers sol-diers were, it was difficult to say; probably prob-ably they joined the rabble also, as the aeoouDts which have reached us do not state that the mob met with any resistance. resist-ance. After the mob had satisfied 1 themselves that there was nothing I more to plunder, they all dispersed. The mandarin has been dismissed. |