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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER

there aint no sich

at Powell's as a Marguerita The commander of the forces of the millinery department abso lutely denies, and is prepared the Book, that she was ever familiarly du Marguerits, even by the youngest and most,

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Variation is and bow small the range be considerable/ut in mid-ocean, for

in some places where at first sight it should stance, an island like St Helens is washed by stide baly about three feet in range; an ene

even the Mediterranean, notwithstanding its closed en like the Caspian or the

Black is subject to no appreciable tides whatever, and connection with the great Atlantic is subject in ventral to only very inconsiderable tiden, the range of water-level varying from eight inches The Mediterranean tidus are, however mo at Brindisi to iwe feet four incher at Trinite, strongly developed in the lay of Gibraltar (where the range is

is from five fest to six feet five Gabes upper Aditation and the Gulf of

the

It is also a fact, quite to be expected when that changes in the pressure of the atmosphere One thinks of it and yet aut often considered. are accompanied by corresponding changes in the water-level. With a rise of the barometer, the level of the water sometimes falls a fourth lower than the normal ebb. Observationa af Nice, Monaco, Cannes, and other placer abów that from atmospheric disturbances alons Las level of sea may be altered as much as ons foot eight laches.

canal as many as the seen from must hava

and tha: frequent that a cauall on the pite, to use "an When the canalu villages, the pativos seem to exerc ingenuity in obstructing the already narrow space to the utmost pastable limits, by building overhanging" ponicos and pavilions or by

regard to the resulting constriction. In may mooring their craft on either side without

cases these bridge arches have shall circle of opening and are fine examples of the stoneman's art and skill. With regular and solid granite approaches on either side, having often a simple open rest house, washed red on the outside, or a small group of houses at one ollen present charming pictures, especially when a bright day allows every outline to be reflected from the water, and the observer is sufficiently distant to miss the inevitable dirt of a Chiness rural dwelling place.

So-called river "guobonts," usunily tied up in a shady spot near a village, and large man- darin living on family boats were frequently met with, The most curious of all the craft encountered, were the, cormorant fishermen's boals or rafts, with the berumpled and rather the tide elevation probably produces no pets miserable looking black birds crouching, upon ceptible, geological changes, panner is them or swimming along side. Usually the tremendous speed. In the Allastic its fate fisherman was itamping rythmically upon a in five hundred geographical miles an hour. loose board in the stern and yulowing his boat | But, as this is merely the paaripe of an at a fair pace, some of the birds swimming are gently moved through a cycle

oscillation whereby the particles of alongside with a bubbing kind of motion in ions, there can hardly be any appre

Sof; posit unison with this stamping, and every now and ciable effect upon the distant ocean-bougm

on an average of two thousand to thres then making a dive for fish which were un

thousand fathoms below. When, however, the noise, though to judge from observation the more and more the friction of the bottom, and returns for all this scheming were but meagre. while its rate of motion is decreased, its height Occasionally a grating sound under the bot and force are increased. Again when the tidal, tom of the boat told us that we were passing swelling is increased in height by the conver over the loose central portion of the red and gain force and rapidly at the same time,

gence of the shores between which it moves, it bamboo, fishtraps or weirs which frequently no longer a mere oscillation or pulsation of the and extiended completsly across the stream, but great ocean, the tide acquires a true movement always with an apparently unoccupied recep- of translation, and rushes past headlands and tion or storage compartment at one corner.

through narrow cbanools with tremendous. was somewhat impeded by the heavy growths land and Scandinavia At other times the progress of our light craft well known to those who

are at all f

i familiar with the west coasts of Ecol

able and businnes tika fashion, and one can into the corder make a fairly comfortable trip at a reasonable "expense, ^ Kach" day onesof) iboru, čompar takes cargo, while the other two do no, and if you wish your houseboat to join a rapid "tow," Careful fiquiry should be made as to which company is towing freight for that day and then secure towage from one of the others other one and all'asseverate that they were

Eveochemi further inquiry wil not be amiss, nevercalled Marguerita and look as though the

form these two launches one is pobably much DAMO WER A Synonym for the nether regions,

Although the proper place, chronologically the faster. It is possible, using the launch ser though why, nobody knows. It is unlikely for this part of our series of notes is somewhat vice, to leave Shanghai Friday night, see the that the male members of, the stall would later on, we venture to present it here because Saturday might and Sunday afternoon borci, respond to a shout of Marguerita," and our readers, who deubiless like to give their By private launch even better time can be of the more immediate interest it may have for and be back in Shangliai Monday morning. none of them admits that he has any relative attention to a matter not too long after the made, and a record und trip of sixty hours, who at any time dots or doffs the charming incidents have inken place. Even now we are allowing fifteen hours at Haining to witucas name of Marguerita. Some of them pre rather beated in our nairation. And while the both a day and a night bore, and five hours tend that they have sung about Marguerite," phenomenon which we are about to describe of shooting during the return, was made by but she was no relative to the party mencurs at regular intervals, it assumes such sonte, Shanghai enthusiasts in October, extraordinary magnitude twice a year that these 1902. On the other hand, the pleasures of times (the equinoxes, in April and October) houseboating in the region, traversed, If we wanted Mary Ann, or Susan or really predominate when, wo attempt to characally during the fall monthe, should not be even Venus and Diana 'they could be ter ze the essentials of the recurrent phenome underestimated, and if one is pot pressed for (Containing Soap, Perfume, Forder and found at a moment's notice, but Marnon, which without doubt is the most striking time very comfortable and interesting trip on

Toilet Water.)

guerita is one of the other stories referred thing from a geographical point of view which a private heal, propelled by yulow and pole to by Mr. Kipling. The mystic Maggie is is to be seen along the China Coast. The and landing you at the Haicing Pagoda at the not to be found in the Colony; she has disrugged const-line, the many bays, the chain of end of the third day, from Shanghai will allow, appeared like the Arabs of poetic fame who fringing the coast, the whole gamut of a full enjoyment of the various scenes which geological and geographical forms 'which, one'

by one enliven the river and canal banks ibroughout folded their tents, and, she has, as silently encounters in such coastwise journey as we the engines delta A satisfactory compromise stolen away. So long as she does not steal have made are all very striking and grand, and between these iwa plans may be effected by a right-of-way the general public can bear yet they are static-passive, after all. Great taking a cabin passage oa launch-train as far with the loss. Some of those who compose and notable, as they are but silent witnesses of as Samen on the Grand Canal, which is reached this cosmopolitan community have heard a those restless and resistless forces which have at noon of the day fier leaving Shanghai and shrieking for her wandering boy to-night.stimate of the volume of silt carried seaward under fair conditions should be reached by s.x ditty, in which a lady is supposed to be brought them into being. But when one be then hiring a native boat to be yulawed along holds the mighty Yangise, attempts to form an narrow well-shaded canals to Ha ning, which what can the feelings be of those interested in the rush of its muddy waters, and tries to or seven o'clock that evening. in the wandering, wonderful, mysterious judge of its land forming as well as land. Marguerita ?

Leaving the wharf in Souchow Creek abortly denudding powers, one stands in the presence before sunset, we pass under the Garden Bridge, oldynamic grandeur, which to our mind neces from which many pairs of curious eyes watch doubt expected to be attracted by the boatman's tidal wave enters a shallow.sen, it encounter. sarily exceeds any passive greatness, as of the our departure, the sturdy little tog puffing con everlasting yet silent hills. It is this feeling of tinueasly and tooting spasmodically as it cators dynamic greatness which overwheitus an obser the Whingpu River to pass along the whole, ser of the tidal bore as it sweeps in from Ifang length of the Bund and Tative City wharves, chow Bay and rushes past Haining, a solid wallet thus affording an unexcalled view of Shanghai's water from two and a half to three miles wide,glory. Fiom our perch on the roof of the A POLICE official stated this morning that not perhaps ten, twelve or even twenty feet high, kitchen at the stern of cur barge, spyglasses in for many years have there been so few arrests with a speed of ten to twenty miles an hour, Hand, we saw all, there was to see and were made on Christmas Day-as it was yesterday.

according to the intensity of the tide. Imagine mucimpressed with evidences of international if you can, one and three quarter millions of trading going on, by noting the names and LIEUTENANT-Colonel J. T. Carter, Army Paytons of water passing by you each minute, the pets of registration of many ships from many Department, who recently went 'oul to Hong-rush to continue several tens of minutes, and climes. Among other things we were struck

this inruth of water makes itself felt still as a and whatfage at the southern end. land and even for some miles beyand.. big wave at Hang chow, thirty miles further in-.

Roand.ng a bend toward the southeast, just

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THE U.S.cruiser Olympia is shortly leaving board. She is expected to arrive in Japanese waters early in Apřil next.

for the Far East, with 200, navil, cadets on

where the Catholic Cathedral is a notable land-

of 'water weeds and cresses,

The banks of the canal are everywhere green and restful, and in the case of the smaller by fave seen nothing finer of the same sort any ways arc ofien completely overhoog. We

pines and locusts, laurel, graceful weeping wil where. Bushes, great grasses, trees straight

low, flowering shrubs and non-flowering covered

In the deep wide teacher of the ocean,

month, i.e., October 5th, the greatest tidal bore

On the eighteenth of the rat Chinese eighth mark, we shortly afterwards pats the Kiangnan and tall, dwarfish and crooked trees, clumps of Jact that our barometric recorda give no very... in existence assumed its greatest intensity of the year and those who were fortunate enough

Arsenal and have our attention allracted by bugle calls sounded on two or three grey coated Chinese men-of-war,' Our

course

A. S. WATSON & CO., RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library to witness, it saw a phenomenon which richly was southward up the river to Sankoo with some blooming vine-the whole a beauti a practically un-form depth. ANAR

and Museum for the week ending the 23rd repaid them for their journey to the vantage from there, west as far ai the walled city of/ful fanway for mile after mile.

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December, 1906 Library, Non-Chinese, 318, Chinese, 139; Total, 457. Museum, Non Chinese, 16; Chinese, 7,420. Total, 2,581, THE lado China steamer Choysang arrived in port this morning from Shanghai. She had [34 on board two race ponies for Hongkong., One is a Derby griffin for Mr. Ellis Kadoorie and the other a tientin racer for the Hon. Mr. J.

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W. Gresson.

JUST as we were going to press a rumour was Ordinary beatuses onimananations mantel. be addressed watchman at Kowloon had commited suicide in circulation to the effect that an Indian

firmation could be obtained from the police at headquarters,

in The Maunger.

point-Haining small town on the north shore of Hangchow Bay, the estuary of the Chien-tang Kiang, situated about thiny miles from the mouth of the river.

Rungkiang, and further, winding around in west by south direction, we passed out of Kiangsu province into Chebklang, and came to Kashing, a walled city with a Cus toms:Station under the management of the

The writer, though prevented from going to Haining on October 5th, did the next best Customs. Here we entered the Grand Canal thing and spent the first and second days after and followed its southwesterly cours through the previous full moon (September 6th and 7th several unimportant but crowded places, ut in close observation of one midnight and two one of which, Simon or Shih Men, we left the noon bores. Unlike the bores seen elsewhere launch-train and proceeded in a native boat which generally occur intermittently, the southeasterly toward Huining by means of the though its magnitude and speed vary consi:quently as cross-roads are found in the coun- Hangchow bore ascends the river at every tide, by-way canals which traverse the delta as fre-

semi-monthly maxima are attained at the third Grand Canal proper makes a right-angled turn tide after each new and each full moon.

to the west as far as as Dongsi (or Tang liai) straight course southward to Hapgchow, its where another right-angled turn gives it a

tree, showing averywhere, the importance of The predominant feature is the mulberry this region as a silk producer. Ia well kept rows, their crooked and wide spreading bran- ches hid beneath rounded canopies of buge; pale green leaves, the ground everywhere clear of other growth, these little trees represent no famous for the splendid silken gasmicots pro- small pan of the material wealth of a region duced in its chief cities.

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These mulberry graves sometimes alternate with clumps of graceful bamboos or spicy odorous pines, which mark the burial ground of near-by villages. Or again there is only a

The Editor will not underinse, to be responsible fur by cutting his throat with a razor. No con- derably.with the general state of the tides, and try districts of Western' lands. At Samen, the fringe of mulberry trees along the back, much

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MR V. H. Lanning, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., the well known cricketer, left Shanghai for Amoy, where he will ride in the forthcoming race meeting. After the races he will proceed home of leave and will be absent for about one year.

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THE chief quartermaster division headquarters, On December 19, at Shanghai, the wife of Pagar Dock Board, of Singapore, stating a Manila, bas received a wire from the Tanjong

wrecking lug would be sent to convoy the McClellan to that port. The McClalionis pro- ceeding to Singapore for extensive repairs.

◊. KOFELMAN, of a son,

MARRIAGES. November 20, at Bromley, E. J. LEWIS to ALICE MARY, daughter of late E. Burnie, of Hongkong.

witness the bore under the more impressive and The latter affords a better opportunity to majestic stillness midnight, and the light and shadow of a moonlit scene. These semi- onthly maxima themselves attain greatest tides, ie, at the equinoxes. Of these the autumnal equinox is preferable because of the cool and, most probably, fair weather and the absence of mosquitoes,

beyond the mouth of the river and others con

Although observers sometimes go to Kanpu

from the first of these places the bore is seen tent themselves with a view from Hangchow, when not fully formed, its two initial sections not yet united, while at Hangchow, the effect,"

terminus.

farge bouts laden with firewood passing down All along we found the canals full of life,

to Shanghai, while, smaller boats with marker supplies and other articles were met plying. between intermediste points. Large rafts of

four or at most five men succeeded in man one could ser, excited one's wonder as how fir or bamboo, sometimes stretching as far as

take the place of the slipper boat so common aging them so well. Curious foot-boats here in the Canton delta as a rapid passenger craft.

as the liches trees occur in the delta near

bean fields after rice harvest, or the lotus Canton, with the paddy fields soon to become

ponds all white and pink in their September

until one comes nearly to Bangchuw.. glory, lying bebind this fringe or veil.

No hills are encountered- In this vicinity

HAINING.

converge

The discrepancies between the sides at dif- formations of the coasts and sea-beds. Indeed, ferent places are due then-chiefly to-the-local- it seems that it the whole earth were covered tides would be excessively feeble. On ne other with a uniform and deep ocean of water, the

which may justly be regarded as a deep and assumption can wa reasonably account for the

vast ocean of air embracing the whole cart to distinct evidence of tider in the atmosphere,

cooped up within a narrow inlet or estuary, in The height of the tide varies from zero'up-to from the form of the land, the tidal wave is seventy feet, and is of course the greater where,

which case the advancing tide sometimes gathers itself into one or more large waves, ing shores. Thus, owing to the gradual de and rushes furiously up between the crease in width and depth of the Bristol Climanet the tide enters the Severn with great times attains a height of nine feet and has pas force, forming a tidal wave or bore which at several occasion caused great destruction, id: 1606, 1687, 1703, and 1883. The Bristol Channel also concentrates the great Wave": which gives Chepstow And Cardiff tidal range which sometimes reaches fifty, feet. lu like' manner, the tides which enter the Bay of Fundy, between Novia Scotia ad New Brunswick, are more and more cooped up and rise higher as they ascend the strait, till they reach a

sudden enough to constitute a properly called height of seventy feel.

But these changes are gindua), not really bore." Prof. G. H. Darwin noted, on the banks of the Severn during the spring tide in Sept, 1897 that there was no proper bore, but only a succession of waves up stream, and a rapid rise of water-level.

twenty feet draught, it is said that there is been dyked as far as Rouen to admit vessels of In the case of the Seine river, which has

Candebec and Quilleboeuf, the estuary is set usually from eight to teo feets which is pro bate, barre ar mascarat at every tide, ranging bably accounted for by the fact that after

flows a narrow navigable channel. with extensive and-banks between which These bores are relatively small compared

the midst of a pouring rain. Passing around Haining was reached about eight o'clock in

abruptly terminates, near a somewhat pic the walls on two sides, our journey came to end in the cul de sac with which the cabal

darkness of a rainy night did not allow much turesque gateway in the city walls. The of our environment to be seen, but we had no with that in the Chientang Kiang while the

On December 12, at Peking, the Rev. LIEUTENANT. C. B. Hitchins, 19th Moolian though still fairly remarkable, has completelThey are long narrow, affairs and, owe their difficulty in finding our way to the re-wall destructive bore of the great Amazon is robbed. ARNOLD GEORGE BRYSON, of the L.M.S., I 'Regiment, Hongkong, gets promotion to the lost its grandeur, and the best and most easily name to the peculiar fashion in which they are and the Pagoda, and satisfied' ausselves of its impresslyengas because if cannot well ba

Ch of the Women's Hospital, Peking, Ta'sugchow, to SORAH LENWOOD, M.B., eldest daughter of the Rev. Walter Lenwood, BA, LL.B., of Sheffield, Yorkshire.

The Houghang Celegraph

Hitchins originally was appointed to the un- rack of caplain in the last Gaselle, Caplain attached list in August, 1897, and the following year he was posted to the Indian Staff Corps, AMONG a number of suggestions and recom.

mendations in a recent memorial presented to the Throne by H. E. Sua Pao-ch'i, formerly Chinese Minister in Paris, with reference to proposed changes in the criminal laws of the Empira is one strongly viging the necessity of abolishing the cangue.

to the China Station. Lieutenant Tinson has

Pagoda, though it is likely that at Kawbaw, renched vantage ground is at the Haining which is some five miles below the Pagoda, the bore is of even greater grandeur. This is close to the point where the two branches of the furious "Serpent read," as the Chinese call it, meet; and some observers have reported thirty feel for its height there as against mine feet reported at the Pagoda for the sacc bare, though we suspect that they refer to the height of the temporary waves caused by the impact of the two branches and not to the height of the bore-front proper, though the latter is not impossible.

THE JOURNEY TO HAINING,

Haining lies within and near the north wes served adoal since January, 1898, when he gotten side of the equilateral triangle formed by his cadetship, and he was promoted lieutenant Hangchow, -Ningpo and Shanghai, and is in December, 1953. He was recently serving readily reached from the latter by means of oboard the 7'riton, survey ship, at Chatham. the so-called canal "trains," a steam-launch towing three to six hoats of various kinds. MESSRS, Noel Murray's cotton yarn report for One may hire a house boat, Chinese or for December soth says that the improvement in e'gn style, or, as we did, take a cabin on one the market continues, the stocks being in of the native passenger barges operated by the stock that was in the hands of the firms that five dollars from Shanghai to Hangchow, and former hands and better manipulated. The launch companies. Small cabins for two cost have recently gone into liquidation was made very large one, enough for a party of six or sight, to have made a very good thing out of it. The Houseboats cost upwards of five dollars a day over to a syndicate,of natives who are reported may be rented for twelve dollars for the one way. outside markets appear to be improving and according to size and fittings, and towing is trado generally is getting a healther position.

Hongkong, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1906,

MYSTERIOUS MARGUERITA,

Much interest has been evoked in the whereabouts of a certain mysterious Mar- LIEUTENANT C, W. Tinson has been appoint guerita. Last week a case came before theed to the survey ship Meriin, now en voyage Police Court in which a lady with two daughters, named Rosa and Marguerita, alleged that two Japanese of the feminine gender had assaulted her, also Foss and incidentally Marguerita. The Magistrate was in fine form as the man in the street would say, and after the charge was read over bo demanded: "Where is Ross?" A young lady answered to that name by bowing politely and expressing the hope that his Worship was quite well, But the Magistrate was not in a jocular mood, for he instantly queried: "Where in Marguerita "There was an awkward pause, until somebody volunteered the state- ment that she was employed with Powell's By kind permission of LL-Col. Price, D.8.0 and could not get leave of absence. Had and Officers the Band of the tagth Baluchis the judge been an irascible man he might (Duke of Connaught's (wa) will play the fol have committed the manager of Powell, Ed., lewing programme of music at the King Ed for contempt of Court, and sent the financial and Hotel, during dinner, to-morrow, the

27th inst." (weather permitting):... expert who heads the directorate to the Tower, March Expagnola" Borella"...Outlin But being of a benign disposition more fitted

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Tren Dances from Henry VII. Lapustenose. Guzman court bench, he merely rapped out a question

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our and at the same time operates a Jog for a change to dry clothing and a bite to eat winds that the phenomenas stall striking and "yulows" or wiggle waggles a large tail propelled. A single boatman sits in the stern that we had come to the right place.observed on account of its very magnitude; After doing this, we returned to our boat morcover, with it as well as with the other rivers, it is only at spring tide and with certain oar stung over the starboard side, by means

On the other and the Haling bare occurs. every tide to a remarkable éalent in any scad and at certain times assumes colossal propor it may be interesting to note the following tions and is yet observable. For comparison description of the Amazon's bore or proreca by: La Condamine

on the flat side of a good-sized wooden block

of both feet placed on the inner end-one and the impatiently awaited the approach of on the round "handle" of the oar, the other the interval we now and again dozed off into the hour predicated for that night's bore. In attached to the oar-end at right-angles. These dreamland, not without first placing beneath boats carry passengers, mails and parcels our pillow a trusty firearm, because some of the between the intermediate places not served by citizens countered near the restaurants dur. the launch-trains or on the side canals.

ing our initial sally had not looked any too On both sides of the canal, especially near bandsome, and our boatmen seemed or at Kashing, fine granite memorial arches and thieves. Nothing more harmful, however, -least-wished-to-seem; somewhat fearful of several pagodas stand conspicuour, having escaped or baffled the destroying hand of the than a halfol of probably groundless fears Taipings, though most other things, in this region (uffered woefully. At one turning point we noticed three graceful pagodas standing side by side.

ventured to molest ús.

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During three days before the new and foll moons the period of the highest tides, the sem, instead of occupying six hours to reach ku minutes. The noise of that terrible flood is food, swells to its bigbeat Hmitidas or two beard five or six miles off, and increases us it approaches. Presently you see a liquid pro by another, and another, and sometimes by a montory twelve or fifteen feet high, followed' fourth These watery mountains spread across the whole channel, and advance with a "pra digious mpidity, sending and crushing every-

tracts of land are swept away!!! thing in their way Immense trees are some- limes uprooted by it" and sometimes whole

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

...'' WAILS DUE.. Australian (Chingfu) 2718' josh"," English (Dalia) 27th inst, at noon. American (America Maru) 31st last. German (Print Blul Friedrich) 31st Indian (Kuliang).1st prox. German (Prins Hainrich) and prox Australian (Taiyuan) 14th prox. German (Manlia) 15th or 16th prox

A five minutes walk from our mooting at the canal's end sufficed to bring us to the sea wall and the Fagoda and after witnessing the bare which swept past us at about 1.15 am. feature encountered during a trip on there and enjoyed (?) a' half-night's 'dozing on hard But the most frequent and most notable we again crawled into our not over-large boat canals is the really wonderful series of bridges boards. under which the traveller passes. Wooden bridges, granite bridges, crudge bridges, graalte bund of the bigh-level canal with Daylight revealed to us the rather massive

bridges and bridges in good repair. Bridges cargo boats were being filled with goods artistic and picturesque bridges, delapidated ample landing, alongside of which several with sloping approaches and bigh curving brought from the sex-front and the city go- arches, bridges with one arch or with several, downs, The continuous stream of carrying all devoid of prominent keystones. Bridges coolies showed that Haining in its way, it a crowned with shops or pavilions. Bridges distributing centre for a considerable district whose sides are covered with verdant vines Sbangbal from their landings in Boochow Creek end. Bridges from the tops of which ex-(of which we shall presently speak in more Two or three of these faunch-trains leave and with small trees claniped at either around, goods from the seaports, arriving by the sen-going 'junks tied up to the sea-wall every afternoon about five o'clock and with fale peciao! fishermen let down the great um weather and favourable tides reach Hangchow bralla-het and blame the passing bost for the duce of the district to more distant markets The P. & ASS. Co.' in. Numantia from

(detail), and these in tum' taking away the prós the next afternoon anywhere after three o'clock operace of a decent "catch", Bridges than can be reached by the canal. So that Portland arrived at Yokobama on 24th iomra Thres companies are now running these trains which sometimes by their massive plars and

across this narrow strip which separates the Vancouver at 13.30 km od 3200 just”.

The CJR, Co's:25, Alkinian andved Tai Sheng Chang, China-Merchants Inland narrow archen, so reduce the waterway and end of the canal from the river practically the The C. P. R. Co. Tarlar Amiro Steam Navigation Company, (not..to be increase the stream's flow that the spice of whole transit trade takes place. Consequently, Yokohama at 8.30 a.m., on 25th inst, and left. confused with; the China Merchants-Stoant danger is added, for the voyager whoso craft al hough it had been too dark for us to see much, again at 5 p.m. same day, for Kobe, where sim Navigation Co. of larger fama), and Ta. may be a little over normal sixò. Later, while when we braved the storm on the previous night | is dus to arrive at 6 a.m, on 37th Inst, binay Tung, a Japanese concern. All three of retursing from a side trip to Mokanakan, on a to witness our first bore, we were not surprised The CA P. R. Com 24. Empress off) there have their offices on the upper side, dark and rainy night, the cabis loft for servants in the morning to find that the main street of arrived at Neganski at 1.30 pin on 24th this surbar just outside the city gate was very and Jeft again at 9 pm, same day, for 1 of Soochow Creek right by their respective at the rear of the house-bost, we were using wide for a Chinese street and paved with broad where she is doa so amire at 9pm on laddings, Everything is managed in a credit. was almost completely demolished by oraabieg: granite blocku,

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