From tHe "Nortu-Cutna DAILY NEWS or SEPTEMBER 9, 1877
Locusts have again appeared in great numbers. Swarms of them were to be seen yesterday and Saturday on the Bund and in the Kiangse Road.
We have a programme of the Aulumn Race Meeting, to be held on the 2, 3, and 5 November. Eight races are set down for the first day, and seven each for the second and third.
The M.M. steamer Singh, bringing the French mail of July 27, was signalled as passing Gutzlaff at eight am. on Saturday. The arrival guns were fired about 3.30 and the mails delivered about five.
The Municipal Council very properly ask the ce-operation of foreign and native residents in carrying out sanitary arrangements which, always desirable, become especially so when the season is unhealthy. The precautions recommended are very simple, and will commend themselves at once to the good sense of all to whom they are addressed, From a list published at he Rising Sun office, Nagasaki, it appears that the fleet belonging to the Mitsu Bishi Mail Steamship Company now comprises fifty-five vessels, of which. thirty-nine are steamers, six barques, one training ship, two hulks, one schooner, four barges, one steam-launch and one steam-tug.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.