At the Tengyueh Custom Omlce there have been great changes, To dogin with Mr. W, A. B. Gardener has taken over the acting commis slonership from Mr. Rollo Ttouse who has departed vid Burma for Shang-hal, Mr, Rouse has been exiled in Tengyueh for nearly three years where he made himself exceedingly Popular despite. his skirmishes with smugglers and their patrons. He is keenly missed, and his departure wag marked with a spate of farewell dinners and entertainments, With him went Mr. West, Examiner of Customs, who' was' popular with everyone except the Yunnanese Pheisants who have reason to re-Joico at the departure of a very AArst-close shot. "Never was a Customs official so hard on pheasants: but he has now flown to England where, a8 far as we know, there are ho. pheasants except for millions 'Amongst the tidewaiters (and what strange title that sounds at this port' that lies high and dry in the mountains 1,000 miles from the sea) Mr, Wang Eng-yao Is now in Hon kong, Messrs Ching Mah-kun, Hwang Chun-chieh and Wang Te-chun have now been with us for nearly. thre years and will surely soon be due for transfer to Shanghai. Mrs. Rouse where spent nearly a year with her son left towards the end of the rains.
So now the social sphere has to begin all over again, but this matter has been given a good start by the arrival of visitors from Burma who show good taste in the selection of this holiday ground, for indeed there Ig no country in the world more beautiful at this season of the year when the big white clouds mass themselves along the mountains of the "Trrawaddy-Salween Divide, re~ minding us that this Yunnan 1g) well named "Country Beyond the South. ern Clouds." uinologiate Leaving that no eruptions have occurred within human memory.
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