The automa crop of rice was not Fe} 30 good as usual for it was affected seriously by the sammer drought and latterly by the antuma rains. The price of rice is generally higher than inst year, and this is being felt by the people, who have a hard straggle to list." That this should happen seems inevitable while the present methods of transport exist, for the coat of carriage eats up all profits that might accrue from sending produce to a better market. The making of country roads from the point of view of the peasant is even more important than the railway, bat if the Latter (when it docs com: leads to the construction of rosels will confer a double benefit upon the country, There are now twelve foreigners in the city, the me ribers of the Wesley. an and English Charch Missions,
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