The rain, after holding off till the rice fields were nearly dry, came down torrents a short time ago, and thee are rumours of terrible floods in the Pingloh district, where, it is said, hundreds of houses have been washed away and many lives lost. The weather has been very warm now for a long time. For weeks we have had warm wet. weather without the change of a north wind, which in summer usually makes life more enderable here. This long continued spell of hot weather has caused a great deal of sickness and some deaths. Dark ramours are now afloat that cholera has broken out.
One can only hope that this is not true, for a repetition of the 1902 outbreak would be dreadful. The people are much frightened.and the prieste are reaping the benefit of the scare.
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