Wosih Sept. 5.
On returning to month's absence, one fi crease in the bandit activities, nor is any improvement to be expected 80 long as the present unsettled state of the country continues. volume could be written about 1 atrocities committed in this di alone, as not a night passes without ils tragedy in some neighbour-{ing town or village.
Wasih has a new magistrate, Mr, Poo Tsung-yah, formerly mayor of Hangchow.
'The rice crop is the best for many years, and the resulting fall in rice from' $19 to $14 is a great to the public. No foreign tice now has to be imported, though Anhui rice is always needed, as there is a saying among rice' mer chants that Kiangsa even in the best of years only produces enough rice for its breakfast. The other meals must come from some other: provinces.
Waist is now connected by telephone with nine other cities, and two more will soon be added to the list, "Later telephone communication will "be established with the provinces of Chekiang and When this is accomplished it wi cause a great falling off in the uso of the telegraph.
Ticktes are now being sold for 25 cents to E-jan, a distance of seven—English miles. Work on the longer roads to Kiangyin, Zangzok and Ishing is suspended till after rice "harvest.
The autumn silk crop promises excellently, well, and all the farms are busy. trying to retrieve the Serious shortage in.the spring crop.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.