What the City Thinks and Does From Our Own Correspondent, Kashing, Jan. 13.
The Christmas holidays passed with more done for the children of the city than ever before.
The New Year was noted by many Chinese sending cards to their foreign friends.
We have had all sorts of weather and some extra.
This is the regular annual season for robbers, but almost none are reported. Some say they have alit enlisted as soldiers and gone elsewhere. The soldiers camped here are well behaved as a rule.
Our new magistrate is encouraging local improvements. Inclined planes take the place of steps on bridges so that ricshas may go over without unloading passengers. There is talk of taking down the city wall from the North Gate to the East gate, the section nearest the railway station.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.