There is much cause for avai regarding the present shortage of rai Among them are Mr. J. R. M. Suiith. The much. weeker_ then Mr. Robert Shewan, Mr. E. Osborne. ygnal ver the seater. part of the and Mr, Wei Yuk," There are others, Cantey, the Arabian Sea current has who are, no doubt, equally competent wr eres barely extends seventy to carry rations, but whose well known as those have been mentioned. Some! think that after the results of the Sanitary Commission the hopes of anything satisfactory being done by a sion are not very well. rou we do not know yet what will be the final result of the Sanitary Connnissin tis certain that much good was done by their investigations, and it ix likely—that still other recommendations will be accepted.—In any case this Commission will deal with a different matter by which property interests will not, to any great extent, be affected, and, therefore, we may hope that some means way be discovered whereby all the loss and tion that we are the victims of to-day inlay be evaded.—For example. 1 sent #20 to a Chinese shop to. pay a bill for cakes last week. The Chi shop-keeper sent the money back and said that he must have notes. retarned the money and pointed out that T re-received twenty-cent pieces for the cake, and, therefore sent back these coins to him. If he did not like them, he it the future would fet no more of please himself, silver.
OF course he took the: instead of sweep it Over the country.
The Ganget plain, Behar, the Central Provinces, and the whole of West Bengal even to the Indas, are practically rainless, or much below the average. The heat is stifling in those regions. the muggy" damp heat of the rains, the pad rice—Jerop, is witl in the fidds and the outlook is serious. Food prices are abnormally high. The thermometer readings for last week reach 100° and 1187 f, and 90° at night. Burma, on the contrary, reports heavy rain, and Cherapoonji to keep up its reputation of wing the wettest station in India, records over forty inches in one week. Eastern Bengal, the delta and uplands registered sufficient rain, and in some of these districts it has been twice as heavy as usual. Yet cattle everywhere are in good cond foxkder is fairly plentiful, but prices not of food, Int also of cotton goods, comprise almost entirely the clothing of the people, have risen all lover the country.
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