(By ove Tétctow Connesroxpexr.)
17th August.
The trend of events in T'aichow during practically the whole half year has been phenomenally quiet, a condition partly due it may be assumed to the satisfactory of all crops and partly to the nice of the magistracy in maintain ing pursuit after district desporaducs, vesting the more noteworthy and outlawing ethers.
But as the local couplet hath it—"In chow the cows you can never buy up, the robbers can you fully kill "off." The hand of the law Sits so lightly upon a district at no time easily" governed, natural refuges are practically at every one's back door, and clanship so strong, that when an individual has committed a series of delinquencies culminating in an unpardonable offence against the civil law, lo almost invariably forecloses his citizenship by ing himself to those of the cave of Adullam. If a sufficiently strong band is sent out for his " arrest, news of its destination and purpose reaches the ere it has covered a half of the distance. If a small and secret band is dispatched, the clan may sound the tocsin and the detectives may have to assume their most polite of demeanour to escape rough handling. In any ease the end h it to the hills till this The conditions of society therefore present an ever open door to proscri Thus the scouring of one set of officials and avaricious successor, der adverse climatic conditions, may not suffer the district to lapse into as a plight if not more evil than the proceeding.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.