The long promised reform weights and measures is now being. carried out in this city. The matter ig in the hands of the police office numerous rice, cloth and general Which is now busy getting the stores to adopt the regulation weights and Many would prefer to retain the old and irre gular methods. The standard for the evs slightly Tess than that of the old, so there is a general dis ike on the part of customers, as the shopkeepers rather than ' the Duyers are to gain by the change, Seeing that the same price will be charged for smaller amounts.
'Rains have been very heavy in parts of this large plain. On the Whole no great damage has been done owing' to the irrigation system which secures a speedy off-take for surplus waters. to the sea. In the more hilly parts of the district an unusually large amount of silt, has deen carried down. the hillsides; some parts like Chenghsien and Tangpu report that the floods car ried away much of the soil around the higher river beds and uprooted the "bean crop. or inundated the
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