Kashing, Nov. 23.
Weather conditions have been of advantage to farmers. What remained of field crops has been gathered in since the floods, sud-sided, an average of more than 60 per cent. of the rice having been rescued. Consequently, business is better than predicted. Merchandise obstructs the, streets and shop doors more frequently and carp2aters and masons all.seem repairing old or, erecting new bull ings There is a demand for the well known Kashing bricks at slightly reduced rates. Tiles are also moving, but complaints are made that economy in the amount of fuel used in burning has impaired the quality.
Possibly imitating political circles, or as some think, following the genius of the Chinese psychology, more than the usual amount of disagreement is heard of among various classes. The selfishness, pettiness and implacable resentment of contesting Chinese-in high er low estate moves one to melancholy, Tea shop rows, family dissensions and litigation are toa much in evidence. Contractors say that labour is harder.to manage than ever before. There seems to be a permeating ordinarily quiet and sensible people. Students in the schools, however, appear to be more serious and petter behaved than usual.
Experts, said to have been expelled from Shanghai, come on the railway and succeed in lifting anything not too hot or too heavy. Local talent seems to combine with outside skill in. pilfering day and night. Brick walls and tile roofs afford little protection.. Rich and poor, all suffer from the threenanded (i.¢., light-fingered) gentry No robbers are reported in this district, at: present. The soldiers are so much better paid, housed and fed that outlaws prefer safer occupations. Rumour has it that all such have been enlisted and sent elsewhere.
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