This unpleasant visitor still lingers in our midst, although the cases are few and mostly occur in the out-districts. For some inscrutable reason our Spanish friends, now that the disease has almost died out, are proposing to increase the quarantine on Some action should be taken to prevent such vessels Hongkong to fifteen days. ment has made representations on the sub-unreasonable Ht siwcrvenere This Governject to Manila, I believe, and I hope that, if they fail to procure' mitigation of the quarantine regulations some steps will be taken in a retaliatory sense. Meantime let us trust that Dr. Yersin's discovery of a cure for the disease may prove so efficacious as to arrest its progress and modify the fears which, chiefly at places where it is unknown, have led to such stringent precautions against its introduction. Only one case was yesterday.
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