At Wong last a little shower of sleet and rain has come but not the! enough by far.
We are still hoping that more may fall before the weatiter clears up.
In Ucheng where your correspondent was a, few days ago, every expedient had been used to attract the rain, some of them, rather. inconvenient to the travelling public. After processions to the city temple and putting the idol out to sun for a while had failed, the stone lions at the entrance of the temple were sprinkled with water. This failed also to bring the rain, so, when your correspon Ident visited' the town, he found the streets very prettily garnished with strings of coloured paper and rags strung across from side to side, very pretty but not very efficacious it would seem. The south gate was kept shut because "fire is in the south." a reason which may appeal to some. but probably not to very many, who have thus to make a detour of a few li extra early in the morning when off to catch the train at Mamuh, 30 li to the south.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.