The friends of Mr. Pawley of the A. P. C. will be glad to know that he is making a good recovery.
The weather is cold and damp and very trying, which augurs well for Easter. The magnolia, deutchia and lilac are just waiting to burst forth as soon' as the sun shines, Yesterday the Commi Foreign Affairs gave a tiffin party in one of the fine houses at the) Lake side, at which were present. the British and Japarese Consuls, Commissioner of Customs, Postal Chief Magistrate, Chief of Police, President of the Christian College, and Principal of the' C. M.S. Medical School, Secretary of the' Y.BLC.A, and others.
The infringement of trade mark case is to be tried to-day A most popular reform has been introduced in this district, by Sung Zen-faring. In the past the baking of the silkworm cocoons to destroy the worm, after the completion of the cocoon, has been in the hands of group' of firms, and the farmers all through this dist-net have been obliged to take their cocoons to these firms to be baked, it being against the law for any one else to have ovens. This placed the control of the price very large: ly in the hands of the oven owners, since the period between the mature ing. of the cocoons and the bursting forth of the moths is very short, unless the cocoons ure during this period they less. "Consequently the to agree to the price offered by the oven owners or lose their' crop By a recent proclamation changed and now any farm or village may own its oven and do its own baking' and sell when the market is high,
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