very. welcome rain has falling for the last two days and the farmers are rejoicing that they their rice. for the summer (Aux for Sep tember) harvest seem fairly good, but a seroot deal of La Tying fallow, because the owners have not the seed to sow or the means to chow city, and from sources it ie" learned that the estimate of the insurance involved will be over the figure of Ths The tire broke out at about far Canton, April send-off given to Mr. Ma chun, Commissioner of the of Public Constrsetion for the Province of uargtung, who Eis way to the:
ervations! Labour Confrence at geneva, Was one of the most void amd hearty farewells The press publish-accounts of the fire in esser given a local official, Onganin= hit was said that more than and private dwelling ere gutted, the fire sting rover five hours before it tie, and Canton was hand almost to burat out. A number of lives A Tew of the Inbour unions, h ex expressed Chet di and the damage was ext Letween Tis, 15,000,000 to Tis.
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