The cook alluded to ina preceding was captured on Wednesday night and brought up this morning. The facts alleged againat him were precisely similar to those proved against his two companions, and his complica ity in the attack on the women being beyond doubt, he was also sentenced to receive 200 blows, and to undergo twelve mont! prisonment, GExtragts, RECLAIMING WASTE LANDS, (Sin-pao.)
The regions slong the Kiavg and Wai have calamities of one kind or another every year, and the prior people wander about to different places to earn a living, and some districts are without inhabitant cons ence, Luppose it won't make mud some of the Government' mo to the erection of straw hu most deserted places in the country or villages, Let there be over hundred huts put up in wuch places, and then the people will be induced to come back, bringing Jo ones on their backs them, if they know that there are places, provided for t When a place becomes populous, the travellers do not need police to protect them on' the When the barking of the dogs and the crowing of the fowls are heard everywhere, we may infer the population are on the increase, and then even wild places will, be brought under cultivation, When the loot and drought afflict the. country in successive years, the cropa of Spring and Autumn cannot be gathered in, and what few piculs of grain the people had left are then entirely used up huger. Such being the be any seedlings reserved for sowing in the fields, they begin to borrow from well-planting? When they have nothing to plant illes, being willing to pay double bat then there'are Hing, 0 Yuden the poor peop!
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