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The fine weather, which has practically continued without serious interruption through September, seems likely to last the month well out. The great beat, the sudden overclouding at intervals with all the appearances of sudden break-up of the weather, have gone for naught; a few gentle showers in the early mornings are all that have occurred, and thankful as we are for the latter small mercies, we should be lad none the less to see some good heavy downpours to fill the reservoirs and set the streams well running, for the dry month now impending, That we shall ect the sooner or later may be, perhaps, cert prognosticated, but vot it in Ne ber, as was the case last year, the gardens will suffer seriously thereby. Better go without flowers, however, than have a water famine.
The Plague dies hard. It is practically "over, but isolated cases continue to occur at intervals. Meantimo the Sanitary Board are on the alert, and have begun to harry householders with new and unexpected demands under the new bye-laws. nevertheless, that the Board will discretion' wap not worry foreign cause they are the most readily got at: the Chinese householders are the principal offenders, and they should of be allowed to yet off because they are more dificult to trace.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.