'A young couple, whose united ages reached only forty-nine years, and who lived in the beautifully situated village of Wongneichong, lay down the burden of life on the 3ist ult. for what reason no one appears able to say. The mother of the husband, an old Chinawoman, reported on the evening of that day at No. 2 Police Station that on her return from work she found her son and his wife lying on a mat quite dead. The Police visited the house, and discovered close to the bodies a small box which had contained opium, and which no doubt furnished the means for the double suicide. Probably something had gone wrong, the man perhaps lost his employment, and they decided that life was not worth living, a decision often come to by Chinese for very trivial reasons,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.