Rain is most sadly needed in this section. This continued drought has seriously affected the late crops. However, no com-aint should be offered asthe farmers have ble-sed with an unusually good crop, which greatly relieves the distress caused by the floods and crop failures last year.
Jess as 0 assume that Wu Siao-foh, because he was in possession of the land, must be the owner. Wu-Siao-foh declares he has never been the owner, and has rented it only. The real owner was the late Samuel Bowers, a British subject, to whom he pad rent until his decease; then through the British Consulate to his r-presentatives. The Consul requested the Tantai to have the forged deed destroyed, and the p-rs"na'ors and and conspirators arrested. The Taotai was told the deed was held by the Roman Catholics, and the Bishop told him the dred was not avail-ble; also that those implicated had gone to the Roman Catholics for refuge. Had the first case been dealt with probably we should not have had the second. Astrong hand is needed to restrain and to punish; where is it?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.