Old residents in igtze valley have asserted that the spring ix a time of disturbance in China. It is the proper time for rumours, unrest and too often, alas! for riot. This year is not likely to prove an exception to the rule as fur as rumours are concerned.
On Monday night about ten o'clock the Hunkow Taotai sent a telegram to the Viceroy saying that there were three thousand secret society rebels in Hunkow. Whether He rebels were supposed to have just arrived or had suddenly been converted from the ranks of law-abiding citizens we fare not informed. However, the Viceroy was equal to the emergency. "Orders were at once sent out to the various camps, and all night long the soldiers. were kept busy patrolling the streets. Doubtless awed by this commendable vigilance no rebels are Known to have crossed the Yangtze. Must of the three thousand are still at large, but we hear that two Kolao Hui men have been arrested.
In Hankow, as is often the case, our friends have been made anxious on one account, whilst we for the most part went on in peaceful ignorance of the stories circu-Luting around us. It is suid, however, that the Roman Catholic Sisters retired from Wuchang to Hankow for snfoty's sake, but we are not sure whether this was really the case.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.