Since last writing our unworthy districts have had the honour of an official visit from the Literary Chancellor, and now he his favours in the form of behind him, and at last the me has apparently passed away and y|new things are to be expected, for in fo the fact that no ' military report that at the usual monthly prefectural student rally, in place of. the old "subject," or ' text," always put forth for the students to write a literary essay upon, anew departure was made the first after the Chancellor left, and the following isa translation of the subject" {put before the assembled students: "If cloth is selling at 54 cash per foot anda man has 147,960 cash, how many feet of cloth scan he purchase?" 'There was also another question on the price of land. Needless to j say, many correct answers were returned, but' very few on recognised arithmetical lines, most of them being reckoned by the reckoning board. Still we must not despise the day of small things and may look forward no doubt to greater things in the near future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.