On July 2 all domestic servants! were forced out by notification from! the Guild, Yesterday (4th instant) the office stoffs were warned to clear out, meter Iaunch crew gone, Kakchich means Kuling, July 6.
Happy are there who, dwelling on this cool mountain top residence, are saved from the heat and turmoil which are afflicting those who are kept, by business or duty, in the storm-centres down below, We have had our rumours and' our scares, Two or three weeks ag9, when most of the bungalows Kuling were still unoccupied, and the affray in Kiukiahg had just ta-Ken place, disquieting talk of what might happen was, making some of us feel quite uncomfortable, But now it is different. Fresh arrivals are coming daily, and the population of the Valley has doubled itself in the interval I speak of. The transport service has been reorganized, and is now running smoothly. Food supplies are plentiful, and re-[lations with the tradesmen and oth-local Chinese are as friendly as can be desired. Even the most ner yous people are breathing more freely, and the under-current of un= certainty is beginning to disappear.
Nevertheless, Kuling is quite normal yet. Greatly as the population [has increased, the number of ress dents is still far below what it us-at the beginning of July, The shopkeepers and hawkers. still have reason to complain of ti scarcity of trade. Now and again ne is startled by a coolie who asks, Is it true that England has de-glared war upon China." Yesterday, far out upon the hills, your corre. spondent was arked this question by an old Chinese woman, a vegetarian Buddhist, of whom one might have thought that, living in that Jonely spot in a little hovel, she would be innocent of all knowledge of the disorders of the cuter and modern world. Evidently, the pre-mere deed, unless we go and get it! rent unrest has penetrated down to and poy cath ice it, Scme will the lowest classes and the rentest ive easier terms, bat pickets ide Prevent {cod leaving the) than a few words from the din districts, and it will require Premises. mats to allay the fever and die= We have started 2 Communi!' quiet that, Chia ut Kitchen azd seme twelve to fiitecn the breeest cine feedstuffs exe sent here. (the writ of ts have meals together. All e's house) and two British ex-nication is getting Jere service men have taken en the job No newspapers and we nev of cooking, both deserving the highest praise of li.
water for dhinking pare July Gi Office sta', through, clerk ores for sich a crowd is ro juke eave thie evering at p.m.
this weather, atta het bath is! pradore staff, geiloin soe st the The. warships: in pert ai all they can to aesist in ma ten days.
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More food must come from Hong-! kong—no fresh milk. here.
Te Club is iedued a Refifcatin rents ere The and no Chi-but coni:
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This "report referring more particularly, I think, to those en the Kakehieh' side of the har-Rour, not en the town side.
Fully. to realize what this means in this weather it must be borne meind that sanitary arrangement are not modern and that all water necessary for domestic purposes has to be man-handled. from wells at one little diet ence from the herves, auction prohibited without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.