Your rident has been away from Chenchow recently having made a trip to Siangtan. After seventeen days on a house boat with heavy head winds and high water most of the way to pull against, we reached Chenchow, with the wish that the much-talked-of railroad might soon be built. The crop prospects are good throughout the Siang and Lei valleys, At Siangtan the extremely low water (for that time of the year) caused the steamers to fear that any more trips till higher water came would be impossible, but the high water came in a burry. In a fow hours the Siang river rove over twenty feet and the natives were beginning to fear a repetition of the awfial floods of two years ago. The ramours of the floods in Canton have reached this district with the usual exaggerations and rumours.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.