Your correspondent with a comple of companions has been travelling towards the capital of Szechuan, In passing through the border district to the South lof Suifa we happened to see something of a smart bit of highway robbery. A convoy of opium and silver was proceeding leisurely down the road running by the Hen River. Suddenly twenty armed men pounced down on part of the convoy. Three boxes of opium werd and 3,600 ounces of the drag addition a basket containing 1,300 taels of silver was captured. Some workmen in the fields were impressed and in a very short time highwaymen and loot were lost in the hills, The ery was raised and forty soldiers were sent in pursuit, but the robbers had about an hoar's start and got clean off to the great chagrin of the official and deeds of this kind are Irequaty bel being perpetrated in this district, in spite of the fact that robbers are constantly losing their heads.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.