Rain is greatly needed on the opposite mainland to save the rice crop, and at Canton the Viceroy and high officials pray daily for the downpours that will not come.
At a place called Sawan a formidable body of robbers exists, who meditate raisin the standard of rebellion, They have already laid in a quantity of arms and possess some junks, one of which was seized the other day by government cruiser. Great clan Sights and robberies on a large scale go on in the interior with little check from the authorities.
is Excellency the Governor is still, and I think vainly, trying to induce the Cantonese to invest in the new domestic loan the bonds of which, Tls. 100 in value, are freely offering. The Cantonese like securities ofa different type from this for their money.
Hongkong, 2nd April.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.