Continuing our wa strong muni fe signed and penalties upon the offenders. It that moment being utilised on the inside of an opium den, to cover up the cracks in the door, through which anyone passing ab night might see what was going on inside, And in another part, a similar proclumation, pasted on the outside of an opium. den, serves as advertisement in liew of signboard.
Tt is an annual custom to issue proclunations at the Chinese New Year prohibiting gambling, conjuring shows, and dragon-lamp proc to be found wherever these pro penetrate, gaining indeed a new " flavour"? from the presence of such manifestoes. But in a certain country district, the dragon-lanterns proscribed" by the prefect gistrate, are so upheld by the gentry, at some cases of severe persecution ly resulted where native Chris have dared not to subscribe to such thi One of the responsible gentry of li but ni li forty swords have been bot sharpened in readiness for a gory riot, should these native Christians disobeying them (the gen both their prefectural ims own consciences.
2th April.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.