show an alarming increase, the attacks having increased from 599 to 920, and the deaths from 441 to 644. We expected the commencement of the rains to bring a certain increase of plague, but were not prepared for so sudden and great a rise, fe have, so far, not discovered an ANTIDOTE AGAINST MALARIA, but it is stated that Dr. James Bennett has discovered an infallible cure. This doctor has so much confidence in his cure that he offers to pay all the expenses of putting it to the test, tHe is still in fall swing have their practices in spite of the heavy rain they are having, A Simla correspondent describes the weather thus: The moist, heavy air damps the clothes hanging on the wall and covers boots with " soft crop of mould in a night, while waterproofs get sodden and topees collapse with wet." In spite of such weather there was adance last week at the Viceregal Lodye, at which Lady Curzon as usual looked charming. The talk in Simla still turns greatly on the Transvaal crisis. Great excitement was caused on the night of the dance at the Viceregal Lodge, when it was rumoured that 15,000 traps were to be dispatched from India, This rumour has quite died away now, except among the very young and sanguine subalterns, who hold to the notion that there is still a prospect of their seeing active service with the Boers.
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