The Archive · 1902

Notes from the South

Hongkong, Sth July, 19 The past week has been dull and eventful. Business continues restricted, and the share market is suffering from depression, which extends to most stocks.

The weather has been dull and uniformly wet until today, which is brighter and gives some slight promise of improvement, though it is still close, damp, and muggy.

change is hoped for especially by Peak-who have now been enveloped in mist for nearly two motiths.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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