In comparison with foodstuffs imports are high priced this year. This can not be wondered at when exchange is so. dislocated that people willingly pay between 25 per cent, and 50 per cent. commission for transmitting money out of the province. And if opium be suppress ed I do not seo how trade will be carried on at all. Something must 0 out to pay for the goods brought in; and there is not much besides opium that can be transported over these long land ways at a profit, We "have hada long. spell of gloomy, chilly weather. Just enough Jin to keep the roads in bad condition for travellers, and, not an hour's clear sunshine in "a month past. Temperature not low, mostly 40 to 45 degrees day and night. This weather did not begin till atter the crops -were gathered, and has not greatly interfered with planting the fall crop.
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