Our Wahu correspondent writes on July 6:—The rains during the last few days have created good deal of anxiety, The water mark to-day is 26ft., only 4ft. Sin. less than the maximum of last year. Some of the smaller dykes have given way and many mow of rice land are under water.
The rice is exceedingly heavy and if the rain keeps off we shall have a bumper crop, If the main dykes give way it will entail endless suffering. Already the water is near the top of some of them and the farmers ate frantically endesvouring to save the situation. The easy way of the Chinese gives them no end of trouble. They need to keep before them the maxim that "a stitch in time saves nine."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.