The wall around the new Customs property is nearly completed. A Chinese house has been somewhat foreignised so as to be used as quarters by the staff, a small building is going up to be used asa branch post office, and altogether there is quite an air of prosperity about the place.
The Weather has not as yet been very oppressive but a good many of our little foreign community have sought the cooler breezes of Mokanshan.
Miss Macphail is braving the heat on a visit to her father, but will soon leave for Kuling.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.