Formerly, only robbers carried weapons, now thieves are on the me crease and use sharp knives on any who oppose them. Occasionally, country people are brought in stab-. bed and hacked in such ways as to make recovery almost impossible, One effect of the present depression to All the gaols and reformatories the point of crowding.
The cool, cloudy summer has hin dered one profitable business in our ative style boats are lift-from the water, dismantled, turned bottom up, patched snd_wood oil applied in successive layers after each has soaked in under the hot sun. July business was suecessful and prosperous, August slowdown, as boat bottoms refused to sorb the necessary amount of all, The survey for the revision of taxation was finished for the city, but there is not enough funds hand to complete the country distries. This fact as well as the drought Jof last year has postponed payment fon the new seal The Chekiang authorities are very strict about boat licenses. Almost any sort of raft that can float, if seen without the current half-year colour ed-and numbered tin plate, Is held until back dues are paid along with a fine for delinquency. The way Jof the tax-payer seems hard. anywhere, but it is really hard for the iver in this part of Chekiang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.