This sntamn seems to have been unusually wet, as it has rained nearly all the month of October, and the river keeps high for this time of year. November, which is one of our finest Reports from the south of Hainan tell of " poor crop, bat there i from robbers there jast now.
The disease from which bund: cows and water buffalo have died is on the wane, as the cooler weather approaches. Plague in Tanchou is on the increase: rats, cate, and a lew people have been the victims, A ton of the Tsotsi at Kinngohow has been seriously ill with fever; Dr. McCandliss has been called in to attend Some time ago, three men were sent to Canton from a certain district to stady the Self-Goveraing Society with a view to enlightening the common people they report that teaching the common people is a difficalt task, and that they have made no progress in the work delegated to them.
From another district, we bear thet half © dozen "young men in one of the schools planned to cat their queues on 8 certain date; they would not shave their heads, bat before the appointed day arrived, the listened 49 she advice of their-headmaster and agally shaved their heads, and agreed to wait until queue catting was authorized by Imperial
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