The above fact will help your readers to understand. that the wet weather from which we up here have suffered so much of late has affected a large and wide-spread area, News from Paolin in the north, as well as from other districts. tells of heavy and long-continued rains, while a letter from Chout'ung in Yunnan, dated a month ago, speaks of bitter cold, much rain, and occasional snow." Clearly the past autumn thas been of an abnormal character, and with winter at the door it is manifest that there will be abundant opportunities for Chinese in many places are not backward those kindly charities which hay pily the to dispense. Rice continues to be dear—just about double what it is in ordinary times—while the value of copper cash is phenomenally' high. A readjustment of) values is urgently needed, although radical modification of native business standards is scarcely to be expected with conservative predilections and sanctions ruling Sished authority. One fears that many a among the wealthier classes with undimiweak one will go to the wall this winter in spite of the fact above alluded to that in Chungking at least several institutions exist whose aims and practices are alike honourable to those responsible for their management. The breach made in the city wall by the late heavy rains is at last being repaired, and judging from the colour of the stone that is being used by the workmen a suspicious job must be going on. That too is the opinion of some natives who live in the neighbourhood, although all such comments are made very much @ lsourdine, We have had six consecutive days of dry weather; but the rain has commenced again and he would be a bold prophet who would venture on a prediction as to how long such miserable weather conditions are to continue.
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