The past year has seen many improvements in Tsiogtao. Many new roads have been made, the most portant of which is the one to steamer landing. Those who have had to bump in carriages or ricshas over the clay road which has been used the past few months will much appreciate this new road.
Within certain districts the laying of water in private houses has been made compulsory, and it is hoped in time, the unsightly hydrants where coolies flock for the daily water supply may be done away with.
The railway is doing an increasing basin ese, but the prospects for this winter seem not so promising owing, to doubt, to the increasing distress in the west and north-western parts of the province. Prices for food are abnormally high, so the common people will not be likely to indulge in loxaries.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.