From what I hear and see, 1 infer that both plague and cholera are less destructive thus far this season than up to this time last year. It has, however, been thought best to postpone the summer school that was to have been held in connection with the Anglo-Chinese College. This institution has recently been bereft of one of its best graduates and native teachers, Mr. Ngai I-kai. The death of such a Sne, intelligent, Christian young man is, humanly speaking, an irreparable loss, especially in a land where such men are coniparatively so few.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.