Action of this kind is being taken none too soon, for there were 18 serious fires' in the city during October. It is estimated that six hundred houses and shops were damaged, besides all the mat huts which were destroyed, and the loss Sustained must run to several hundred thousand dollars. The widening of the streets will facilitate the movements of these larger fire-engines.
Rice is rising rapidly in price and supplies are difficult to obtain a portage is predicted.
relieved to hear that there may be no large mov thia contre in stocks. Unfortunately the inflow of refugees from Honan has begun, a batch of throe hundred arrived during the last few They wander about in groups and hold up business in the larger Chinese shops by crowding round the doors till they ate paid to leave, Rieshamen Robbed of Earnings A specially disgusting robbery oe. curred the night before Inst Wachang. Three riesha coolies took passengers out to the Nan-hu and When they got to the Chang-hung bridge on their return journey with empty rieshas, they wore stopped by some mer. who threatened them. with revolvers and robbed them of the 640 coppers which they had earned between them. When the poor start robbing the poor, matters have got toa bad pass,
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