(From the Poochow Daily Echo of 12th ini.)
A tea dealer bringing down 400 piculs of tea dust from the country tried to evade the likin tax and was caught. The whole of the tea was confiscated.
We understand thatthe first autumnsnipe were seen on the 3rd inst,, two days earlier than last year. They are, so far, scarce.
The Provincial Treasurer has posted a notice in the city intimating that students will not be allowed to smoke opium in any of the compartments of the Examination Hall. Those wishing to smoke must leave the hall for the purpose. Any student disobeying this order will not be admitted to the examinations, The Min magi another proclamation reminding changers and others that the use of spurious cash renders them liable to ver penalties. Safar from the law having come intodisuse, he i i enforce its strongly as ever and visi breaking it with heavy fines or imprisonment.
A married woman, who resides ina neighbouring suburb, came down to Foochow to ask her parents for some monetary assist ance as her husband was ill and unable to work, She received all that she asked for, and was returning home by the ferryboat when she unfortunately fell into the water and was drowned. The corpse was seen the next morning floating in the river, was reengnised by her parents and taken home by them for burial, The money given her by her parents the previous day was found in her pocket.
A gross abuse of the transit pass system has been brought to the notice of the Likin gistrate? It appears that for some time past the passes have been allowed to go through the various stations en route to the interior without being stamped, an arrangement of a pecuniary nature having been made with the runners to dispense with the form, thus allowing the passes to be made use of over and over again. An angry proclamation has been issued by the above mentioned official pointing out that such an irregularity will be no longer permitted, and any one detected infringing the rules will be severely punished.
A serious accident happened on the afternoon of the 4th instant at the village of Ma Tau (FRBE) about two miler from the Custom House at Pagoda Anchorage. Three men, with a piece of iron, were trying to get out some gunpowder which had aked'in a French shall, left: since the bombardment of 1884, when the shell exploded, killing two men, and wounding another so seriously that he died the following day. A little boy, who was standing near, received a large gash in the aide, and a broken arm. He has been put in the Seamen's Hospital. The sides and floor of the house were shattered, but the roof remained intact. Some pieces of the shell have been found, which show it to have been one of the largest kind used at the bombardment. Most of the powder had been removed from the shell two years ago, and it must have contained dynamite or some other explosive. Dr. Underwood and Mr. Nelson of the Customs went in one of the Customs gigs to the village, on the evening of the accident, the doctor having been sent for by one of the men who died. There micht have been a great number of lives lost, but for a shower of rain that threatened a few minutes before the explosion, when some thirty villagers who were looking on, ron away to get inthe drying paddy and their clothes.
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