In connection with the cholera for a few days past there have been rumours that it is the foreigners who have poisoned the wells from which som of the people get their water. Th- officis!s h-ye, therefore, put out a proclama to puta stop 10 this, Considering the coutit'axs here it "wonder that such rumours hie not when rife for along time. J> is possibly a 1 st resource. boxes 4s, Gd. exch, of all! The Chinese Imperial Post Office has now open connections between Chenzsha and Kueilin, with offices st the intervening large cities. Taere will be twelve dispatches p-r mouth, in theory at Jeast. bat if they are managed in the same way as chose to Wuchou, the twelve will dwindle into six or less." But. there ars mysteries connected with the Im perial Pist, e.g., why one should have to pay eleven' cents for a ten cent stamp, no matter what coins you us
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