Thera has been a great deal of fever here during the spring and summer. We are building a very modest little foreign house here, but it is exciting the most unbounded curiosity. I think every one in the prefecture must know it, as I have heard st referred to in the most out-of-the-way corners through the country. It is built with due regard to Chinese prejudices and superstitions, so that Ihave not heard of any unpleasant feeling with regard to it, It is more like a feel it isto be such a building here. of pride that there of tr West Kent Resiment is ordered for Hongft South Africa, that the 2nd Foreigners in the interior are watched kong. This battalion is, I find, the Royal like hawks; one can hardly crook a finger without every one outside knowing of it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.