The summer vacation idea has been adopted by several of the leading Chinese families of our city. They purchase of rent houses at Mokanshan, Tennis and the swimming pools attract them more than long tramps for exercise and scenic panoramas, The month of August has been so wet or cloud-east, that late rice tured slowly with excess of "stalk, and leaf growth. The early rice, now lostly gathered in has been fairly good as to quantity, but not quite up to the standard to delectate the fastidious, Primary and other schools have already opened for the autumn term, The Kashing High School starts with 510 students, the Targest number listed at any time in its history of more than thirty years. One reason for this is the fact that graduates st the provincial examinations in Hangchow have made a very high average. One student from the Junior Department was second of 4,900 contestants. competing during the summer just ended.
The hospitals have had no summer epidemic of cholera, but the usual {run of malaria and skin diseases abounds.
The funeral of the last surviving wife of our predeceased wealthiest citizen took place yesterday. The procession to the ancestral graves was more than a mile in length. Thirty-two men bore the massive coffin, surmounted by a pro= pitious dragon and attendant longevcranes. Numbers of Buddhist and Taoist priests in full regalia, soldiers and police in full uniform and mer~ chants, planters, labourers in success ive groups marched to the musi several bands old style and new at intervals, Consolatory and com= plimentary "banners and scrolls, Wreaths of lowers, decorated tableta and symbolic figures were carried along in slow precision. A bystander remarked "Opulent in life, stately in death."
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