The Governor, H. E. Ting Paochuso, with his usual enlightenment, is taking measures to prevent the plague appearing here. All the smaller inns in the city have been closed, larger inos are under carefal All trains are thoroughly and the mails arrive recking disinfectants, Should the plague reach Shibcbiachaang, the terminus of the Shansirail, measures will at once be taken to prevent any suspected cases from entering the province. One or two alarms have been given, but every case has beea quite satisfactorily explained and up to the present time we are quite free from the dreaded plague. orion. measures taken to prevent the winter opium from being sown have been successful, and no opiam will be grown in Shansi this year. To the Breat annoyance of the Governor, who has done his utmost to stamp out the opiam habit, opiam is being smuggled into the province in a variety of ways. hidden in sacks of not easily disc and at other times secreted on and who get through the Customs' barrier an examined. Daring the autumn of last year opiam retages in some districts were empty because the smuggled opiam was so cheap, If in every province there had been the same zeal and the seme thoroughness and honesty that has been shown by our esteemed Governor, Ohina might have been free by now, and it comes very hardly upon men who have done their best to control the traffic to have their efforts bindered by the supineness and dishonesty of other responsible officials, 4 srontixe onovxp.
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