Funds for our local health cane paign ure being ruived by means of a variety entertainment in the New World. Tickets to the value of $50,000 have been printed ant! all the shops are expected to buy a number for sula to their customers. One hopes that the health campaign will not prove to be 3 further variety entertainment, for cholera cases have occurred' and smallpox is bad. efforts are needed if spider to be avoided this. summer Tu Shensi authorities are reported by the vernacular press to have decided to establish an observatory. in the provincial capital, jantu. The necessary apparatus being ordered from' abroad and specialists are being engaged, Tue Peking-Hankow Railway wlministration is reported by the Chinese press to be taking th initiative in increasing or deereus: ing the pay of their manual work fers. Those receiving from $6 to $12 monthly will be given $6 increas each and employees who receive $100 will be paid only $60, while those who hitherto have been paid $200 will be paid only $150 in future.
A irenoat, equipped with 4 motor, from' the P. & 0. Rawalpindi; which was then in Yokohama, was disabled off the shore of Hommoku on the afternoon of July 8 with six officers and 14 of the steamer aboard, As the I boat had a wireless set, the men asked the help of the harbour office. A tug was at once sent to the Scene and the boat swas towed along side the Rawalpindi late the sonic afternoon, and men of the ship had gone to Hommoku for swimming and had trouble with their engine.
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