The second crop of rice is now being gathered amid a blaze of sunshine, The yield is good both in rice and cotton, While stores for some unaccountable reason keep soaring high and higher, it is good to know that coal is a little cheaper this season. Japanese coal is ing for $16 per ton, thanks to the large number of ships chartered from Europe after the earthquake to jonable the merchants to carry on business as The French gunboat Algol was anchored opposite the Blythe pital for "about six weeks and silently did a great work for Ningpo; while the people could see that symbol of strength and authority lying by, they felt nothing bad could really happen to them,
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