After closing my last letter, we hada sudden and quite unexpected downpour of rain on Saturday evening, which did much more than lay the dust." It continued all through the night and lasted until about 11am. on Sunday. It was accompanied by storms, The total rainfall was about 1} inches. This washed out all the drains, laid the dust, revived th vegetation, set the streams running, and arrested the fall of the water stored in the reservoirs, which it seasonably assisted.
There is not much news to record. The loss of the steamer Hupeh and the trying circumstances under which the captain and crew laboured have furnished a theme for conversation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.