Though we hear pitiful tales of leroy conditions in other places, [Sungkiang will have ro reason to complain if something unforeseen Jdoes not happen. It has weathered Jone of the dryest summers ever known in these parts, and passed through a season of pouring rain and yet if something worse does not get them, will produce a bumper rice Jerop. T have never seen the fields in this immediate section look more prosperous. The tides from the Whangpoo bring water in plenty, and uso good drainage is furnished to, jerry away an over supply of rain" fall." The people around here have jaeger known what a famine is. Here really is the garden spot of Chin (On the night before last there quite an irony of circumstance In our eily. Armed robbers entered the house of the chief official of the First Ward of our District and carried of between $300 and $400 worth of booty. It was not far from the police station, but" somehow the robbers got off Jquite free. One might almost imagine that the robbers were trying to poke fun at the official,
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