Peking, 19th May.
The Russian troops which re-enter ed Newchwang were dispatched for Kaiping. Before yesterday there says, no concern ut min the high death-rate of the mines is a matter upon which he will suoner or-later reflect, hidden though it be to the outer world under the convenient al, it is said that there is a synonym of "wastage" (and, after
cure for miner's." pthisis"). Here we may leave him, for the present, about to entice upon his one task of breaking down iron-hard rock two thousand fect underground, to dream at intervals of the paddy-fields of the native land, and the chances of avoiding an official squeeze on his return thereto, a comparatively wealthy man. Perchance to seek vainly for one little bit of gold to pouch, in mines where gold is never visible until the final stage of its production in the amalgamating-room, sublimely unconscious, at first, that above ground constituted authority and every white loafer who has not signed the " petition" will be waiting for his off shift for an opportunity of finding him straying beyond the confines of his narrow compound without a pass," or haply to point out to him that the fact of his washing a shirt for a comrade involves an offence against Section 27, Sub-section 10 of the Enactment, whereby he renders himself liable to a penalty not exceed-
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