The season of plenty of rain has come, and the farmers are rejoicing over the prospect of good crops. Wheat harvesting has already begun, and rice planting at hand.
The Rise in the River has made our steamboat connection with Kivkiang complete once more. The Snipe, having on board H. B. M.'s Consul, Mr. Clennel, of Kiukiang, has just recently made a flying visit to this port. Let these visits be repeated, and many other countries follow suit!
A Great Epidemic prevails in this city. The mortality among the people is simply, alarming. In many instances, whole families have died within a few days. At last the officials have been awakened and are taking steps prevent its further spread and, if possible fo stamp it out. The measures adopted are good so far as they go, but they do not go far enough. Scavengers have been officially employed in every ward of the city to clean the streets, and proclamations put up forbidding the people to throw the refuse from' the homes on the streets. The city sewerage is only a system of cess-pools that menaces the health of the entire city. Your correspondent suggested to the Prefect that a Cleansing and flushing of the sewerage frould be a wholesome thing. He replied "This cannot be done until fall, to open the sewerage now the stench would be unendurable," and so the people content themselves with these dangers ever confronting them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.