The Archive · 1896

THE WEATHER

We are now enjoying a sort of Indian summer ever since the northerly gale about a fortnight ago, which sprang up with such uncommon suddenness that quite a number of Jaden cargo-boats were caught unawares and their crews had some difficulty in beaching them opposite the Club, where, for a few days, the damaged cargo was spread out to dry in the sun. once endemic in Scotland, but now epidemic throughout Great Britain, has reached us; links have been marked out in the neighbourhood of the Recreation Ground provided for us by our philatelic G. P.C.; and groups of enthusiastic learners, tutored by or two experts full of truly missionary zeal, daily drive the ball on its devious round, much to the mystification of groups of stating Chinese.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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