The various schools of the city are i full swing. The Viceroy's Anglo-Chinese College opened with over 300 students but vigorous examinations will probably cut the number down to about this figure, Professor David Lattimore, recently of the Nanyang College of Shanghai, has ed the faculty of this college' and makes, with Mrs, Lattimore, a notable addition to our community.
Welcomed Back, The Rev. Dr. J. W. Lowrie and his mother, Mrs. A. P. Lowrie, have returned from a home visit, and were wol-comed by a very large numnbor of friends, The Harvest is about an average one in this region. The rainfall, though scanty, was better vided than it often is, I: some regions grasshoppers have made Iuvoe, One trict magistrate offered to pay a fixed for all brought in, but: was voy obliged to withdraw his offer, It soams atrango that in a country us thick id populated as this, insects of this kind can $0 regularly got abend of th poopln, but they do wherever conditions favour, We noticed largo numbers this your ow the uncultivated land ter the sen, ouls of thous: hey boon th suggest thie to the agricultural collagen possible industry for uncultivated lands.
The Plague of Wild Rumours has been far more wide-spread than that of the locusts. These have enmo from the proposed military evolutions in Hochionfx. -'To the native mind the coming of a large number of outside troops into any district means that a popular rebellion is to be crushed. In this case the professional mischief-makers have had to build Targely upon the fact that Manchu and Chinese troops were expected to be. present.. The expected presence of foreign military mon has also furnished welcome matter to this same class.
On the other hand the city officials of the fa are reported to have been alert and to have vigorously rubbed some of the foretold evils into the bodies of a number of these prophets of e This has of course very perceptibly changed the mental climate, although there must the old instinctive dread of the Innovations, Perhaps one half of the soldiers one meets in this city now wear leather, native-made shoes,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.