"Have yon eaten your rice certainly a pertinent question in China. The prive of rice has been a ment fruit~ fal subject for diwussion, The price has been varying between $7 and ier picul, 1 ughest-mark ce the T. it would An some districts the are selling: ric The canals were very low, when the revent welcome rains came, There are now prospects of a ood rice crop in the autumn, though Cashing railroad has leon survey it Hazeh, yoing ix miles of, but not but the land not yet bought, it ix said, nor the mulberry trees, which have been ent down, paid for. It is claimed that this route was chosen rather than the more direct 0 vid Haihmen and other places, because the latter places are reached by steam launch and because of the trade of the town of Hazeh. To tone who lives in the district it would seem that a more advantageous route would be a line vii Hsihmen. which would include mang other places of importance. taking the general line of the Grand Canal. Then from his 249 taain line by the addition of twenty-five sad fact that much needs to be done to miffes of road, a branch line could be rescue suffering girlhood from. the built from a convenient point to Huchow infamy of an imbrated life. Houses of and another branch of twelve miles|ill-fame, situated within the Ningpo would connect the main line with] Settlement, are under police Hazeh. Thus these three tection \portant cen-pecial monthly rates being paid by their tres, Hangchow, Kashing and Huchow, inhabitants. movement ix on foot to rreot lesser places of impartance Door of Hope" similar to ina very advantageous which does such good work route through what ix probably the i That there is need for such richest and most productive district in an institution in the Ningpo Settlement, the Empire, and this would avoid the] your correspondent can truly testify.
mal expense and hurtful competition of a separate road by way of
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