I hear that the mandarins are making eat forts to enforce measures Zor the ly sweeping and cleansing of the Amoy streets, levying a daily charge of ten or twenty cents from the shops and dwelling houses. But Amoy is such an abnormally dirty town that nothing short of a big fire can eradicate the plague, and that is such a heroic measure that it is hardly likely to be adopted. Large numbers of Chinese have come over to Kulangu to live, and the last for years have seen & great activity i house-palling taka nar tous and ako la wellings after foreign style wil verandahs and' of two stores. Many old foreign houses are now inhabited by wealthy Chinese from the mainland as well as from Formosa and the Straits.
10th July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.