There is very little news to chronicle, and the past week has been dull and uneventful. The weather continues very fine and the temperature is high for this time of year. The comparative absence of fog this winter has been much remarked, and the weather throughout has been singularly flue and pleasant, but there have Been ovr cold or really bracing days. The absence of rain is now the chief trouble, and the water supply has at length been limited to certain hours, a necessary precaution, with a possible water famine looming into view. So far there have been very few cases of plague, notwithstanding the long drought, and we fervently hope that this immunity may continue. The fact that a few sporadic cases have occurred seems, however, to have been sufficient to scare the timid souls who rule in Burma for they have already de-dured Hongkong an infected port.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.