are still open in the city and south suburb, and crowds of ragged applicants find their way thither day by day. There is, however, the prospect of a good crop of wheat, especially if more rain should fall, GERMAN ENTERPRISE, Our genial German neighbour, Mr. Vorschulte, has displayed the first foreign business sign ever seen in this city. Over his door he Ins also a tasteful Incquered board showing at either end the miners' token of the crossed hammers, and having on its face, in large gilt letters, the German miners' significant greeting: Gli Av/. As n motto over the door of the mysterious foreigner the greeting savours to the in-tinted somewlut of sarcasm, but the native callers who pass the portal are not in al position to appreciate it, and indeed we are informed that it is simply an expression of warm hospitality. We are frequently ached, however, to interpret the "strange device." It is generally supposed that the crossed hammers represent the foreign= er's bungling attempt to write the Chinese character for "father" viz, 42 u, but how the use of this character in this way is to be "expounded," and what the big gilt letters in the middle may mean—these are points upon which even a Chinese graduate mus perforce "receive instruction!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.