We congratulate both our captain of police, and cerned, upon the recovery ofthe wonds en from their boat in February last. referred to the theft in these columns at that time. Although the thieves were hard to trace and two months interven Captain Murphy's efforts were at last crowned with merited success, The Country Quiet.
Having just returned from a coun trip, Lam glad to report that everything scorned quiet, A band of rubbers recently broke down sone miles of telegraph poles and wire, in Pukiang and Lanki districts, The officials not be apprehend them, had to pay the damages, some $700, out of their own. pockets; and. shortly after, were quietly ordered ts their seals and return to Is have they as yet been saz post. Reports have reached us of late of one or more Japanese undertaking ti" put through yamen eases in districts south and west of here.
We trust there may be some mistake in it, and hope that the evi mon popula rnution which has sprang since the failure to e: el foreigners in 1900, that foreigners help in yamen cases, may soon die out fr fed. "In une or numbers of discount have been pretending Roman Catholics or Protestants, their neighbours and defy the offi
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