There is a good deal of poverty about. The long absence of rain increases it. Corn is parched and dead. Trees show no signs of life. "Rivers are not navigable beyond the Fu, and all wonder whea the change will come. The winter has been the mildest sxperienged for years; this has made the lot "of the' poorer people less hard, but now they begin to fear their spring crops will fail. The dearth of rain: makes the bein Tientsin. Mr. Detring is about to leave us for a long over-due visit home; the Chamber, more busy, what the skies withhold the in collusion with the British municipality, rivers must give. Many farmers are using of which Mr. Detring was Chairman for their time digging their ponds deeper and many years, proposes to give a more using the fine rich earth to enrich their emphatic expression of its sentiments by fields and hope when rains come to obtain asking the whole foreign community to a more of that commodity. The cloth trade conversazione in Gordon Hall to-morrow of the city has already commenced; the night to met Mr. and Mrs. Detring; this weavers are hoping that the trouble in the promises to be the most. brilliant social north and north-west provinces has ceased. function of the season and is quite a new 'The rebellion in those districts has meant departure in the way of honorification.' It great loss to this neighbourhood. Each is regarded as a happy idea as it will give year some hundreds of thousand taels' worth all sorts and conditions of meu and both of cloth is exported from here, but last year sexes an opportunity to testify to an esteem the trade had no demand for that material which is as wide spread as it insincere. Mr, from Yunnan and Detring's successor at the receipt of custom
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