But though we have not become owners of gold-mines, we have boon recently unearthing some curious things out of the ground. In preparation for the building of a dispensary at this station, we have been making our own bricks on our own land. In the excavating that was necessary, on three different occasions the workmen turned up some old jars and bowls which have been in the earth no one knows how long, The theory is, (for this theory some of our most intelligent helpers are responsible) that in early days, certainly not Later than the Ming dynasty, there must have beg some graves on our land, and that the bowls we have found must have been placed there in conformity with the ancient custom of providing. basin: of food on the coffin for the interred spirit to p-take of when hungry. Whatever: be the correct facts "f, the case, your, correspondent has got a few old bow! teresting enough to bs carefully packed when the days of furlough come, and taken away to England,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.