has prevailed during the past week, a fierce and comparatively dry, heat, with almost cloudless skies, only relieved by a light shower in the morning during the intter half of the week. This is seasonable but a thought oppressive, and the report. of depression in the Pucitic would not be wholly unwelcome to some of those on the levels who find ie dificult to get their rest at night.
The plague has almost left us, the fierce heat having burnt it out 1 suppose, nnd the Government of the Straits Settlements have at last. removed the prohibition against Chinese immigration there, although modified quarantine is still enforced against vessels arriving from this colony.
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