It is said, in the streets, that new Viceroy is taking measures to Government assistance to all those have not been able to bay back the land which they were, deprived fu, the ments that followed the Boxer of 1000, Tt fe to be hoped hia mil be done and si The" land ile oreleersed is Tike 60 roecb dap gan-powder—too wet to burn to-day bat Moly to dry at avy time. The present ramour we believe, may be well founded. One of our Chinese acqasintances was informed months ago that he could not. boy back his Iend thea bat most wait noti all the land in his evantry could be redeemed.
PORLIC INDUSTRIES, Your correspondent recently the Public Industries Shops in the About two foreign sores of land a and boys and one handred women—are lofly from the anrkilled class that would easily drift into beggary or crime, There are four departments, glass-shoe-making, weaving apd dyeing. to understand tion, there is a fuad of Tle. 40,000. originally given by the Goveroment and for running expenses a yearly grant of Tls. 20,000, No steam or water power is need; but it is not hard to imagine that msoy of these operatives are getting a training which will be found usefal when the power machines are set up. The patterns of the cloth are quite attractive, being evidently developments of Japancee style, FROM DAY TO DAY, The city schools of all grades have shat and the out-of-town students, who are probably in the decided majority, have retarned to their homes fur the Chinese New Yer, now only ten dave In the college the western learn-is nearly all taught io English and it is pleasant to know that the namber of students able to read and mentally digest pure English is rather rapidly increasing.
We are having s rather open winter, not much snow sod that nearly all gone. The mercery has nearly reached zero once of twice.
T understand that we have bad for some months eight camps of coldierthe fall number of camp being one thousand mea. This, of course, oon tubates to business activity.
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