On account of the prolonged dry weather the river is so low that the very smallest boats are unable to come up and godown, and business is very dull. The new officials, and. the old ones too, have all had to come and go overland and to have their belongings brought and taken that way, which has made it very difficult for them.
The Presbyterian School closed for the summer on July Ist with examinations and Speech Day. The work done during the five months was certainly a credit to the teacher in charge and the boys, who wore from the three! hsiens of Leiyang, Lansan, and Kiahuo, besides those from the city of Chénchou. A total of eighteen enrolled during the year. There is a need of new quarters, for the present ones are very cramped and will permit of no expansion, anid are even too small for the present number.
Fengshui and its Work.
Last year the military camp was moved at the urgent request of the local worthies, for the reason that the former camp was situated on a knoll that was directly in the line of some of the (féngshui) superstitions controlling the city. and for that reason, so the worthies said, the military official' with a good many of his soldiers died last summer. As soon as the new official arrived last winter he was occupied with the moving of the camp, and building new quarters. It is reported that many of the soldiers are now ill, and already three have died from malan its consequent ills. What will be the res son assigned by the elders in this case is difficult to imagine. If instead of refusing as they did last year to come to the foreigner for quinine, they would require its use by all the soldiers at this time of the year, there "is little doubt that a great deal of the suffering and death nang the troops would be avoided.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.