'A New Style Funeral From Our Own Correspondent Liuanchow, An., July 5.
With only a few light thunder showers during June, which, however, seem to have been all that was required to keep the growing rice in good condition, we are now having a good downpour which bids fair to refill all the fields and dams. It has come most opfortunately for some of the higher patches of rice plots were beginning ta show large cracks for the lack of moisture. The price of rice, which was expected to fall after the Dragon Festival, still keeps at almost famine rates, and common people are. puzzled. The wheat crop was fairly good, but flour is double the price it was a year ago. Whether stocks are being held up, or the large quantities of "soldiers' rice" shipped from here up to three months ago when it stopped, really drained the district, it would be difficult to say. Whatever the cause the prices are practically at famine rates.
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