Shaohsing, Jan, 11, The older people do remark that the like of such cold as we have now has nct been felt for a period of 30 years. The thermometer has gone far below freezing point; the temperature of the day and night, being almost identical, 'Yesterday and last night we had an unusually heavy fall of snow for Shaohsing. In same places the. snow was over a foot deep. During' the morning hours business on the: main streets was almost at a sta Still, as very few people were able to get there until the streets were cleaned. However, the country people were more fortunate in that they could reach the heart of the city by boat. The rains of the last few weeks have filled the canals very high, and enabled the wells to function once more.
The price of vegetables in the market has soared to famine heights the farmers are unable to pick them out of the deep snow.
A few days ago a nasty accident occurred outside the West Gate, where the manager of a rice mill of too near the shafting of the mill, It appears that his long heavy garments got caught in the, belting; then he was immediately dragged along to the mill pulley and dashed against the machinery; in consequence, his body was crushed and scatterd about the buildin, said to have been a your and is now sadly mourned by his wife and another depending on him. It is now seen, that if the usual factory laws applied in other places were in force here, such an affair could have been avoided.
The Gambling Mania Orders have come to. the local authority from' the—provincial capital forbidding the sale of all kinds of gambling requisites. It is held that if this is carried out, gambling can be checked at its source. From experience one cannot but be sceptical as to the Tiketihood of this being ontexced. Gambling iand its lure to young and old is far too deeply sented to be routed by such a simple device.
The guild engaged in making idol paper foil successfully petitioned the provincial government to remit the threatened additional tax. on this work. Last year owing to increased taxation and the attempt to destroy all superstitious practices a number of workshops engaged in this work:
to close, so there is consolation this temporary relief to. workers dependent on it for filling the vice bowl, The Village Councils in the city] meet periodically and are tackling the many questions connected with the districts, Sanitation and street improvements seem the most_pro-eminent. Some of these districts have had their incompetent leaders degraded from office and others appointed by the local official.
The Educational Office is tightening the rules regarding school hol days in the lower grade. All teachers fare now informed that they must comply with the regulations already published, which limit the winter holidays to a little over three weeks; January 22 to February 12, Relief Fund Raised
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