Hongkong, 1st November.
The Week just concluded sible, and the vessels themselves sent north for some destination unknown, but. said_ to Shanghai. A rumour to the effect that the departure of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for India had been postponed Tacks official confirmation, but was current for some time and has not actually been denied, although Dbelieve they will sail on Monday." At apy rate the transport Wapool is waiting has again been dull and uneventful.
The and will take them to any destination that weather has, however, experienced a change may be considered necessary. The cause at Inst. On Thursday morning it broke of this activity is currently ascribed to the dull and lowering, and durin; the day trouble in respect of the proposed evacua) several brief showers fell, an towards evening the wind rose, and became quite ually in the night, during which mere ain fell. Friday morning wae shower and the day was dull, but this morning is as fine as ever, \l the prospects of an appreciable addition to the water supply are as remote as ever. ation of Shanghai by the foreign tron and the differences prevailing on the subject. Tt may, however. I think, be due to the desire of the British Minister to bring pressure to bear on Peking in order to get his demand for punishment of the officials responsible for the murder of the missionaries at Chénchou acceded to.
The Nuisance of the Dust Sweepers.
Tam glad to note thatat the meeting of the Sanitary Board held on Thursday, Mr. Osborne raised the question of the doings of the scavenging coolies. These mea have for some unexplained reason always selected the hour before tiffin—when the residents aroon their way to take thit meal—for the srformance of their unpleasant duty. filling the faces, mouths and eyes of passers-by with filthy dust—no doubt rich in microbes—and causing general annoyance. The nuisance has often been complained of before, but no one in authority has ever taken the trouble ty put it down. The matter of these unsavoury dust, clouds was, however, on this eceation discussed at length, and the gravity of the nuisance was frotly admitted. It was eventually left to the Me heal Ollicer of Health: to arrange fax the necessary work to be done at x less ob-Jectionable hour, when the streets are less thronged by passers-by. Itis to he hoped that henceforth it will not be necessary for residents to swallow noisome particles on their homeward way "s a preparation for the mid-day n: cal,
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