It is sad to think of all the British energy and capital expended on opening this city to steam traffic, before our government gave away its right to run steamers here, taken up now by Japanese, who wil prob: ably find little difficulty about doing what yesso many people have pronounced impossible. Yet it is well for all of us that it should be done, for, short of facilitating access to this province, and thus enriching' it, Commissions may come and Commissions may go without business being much increased. The people would buy now, li they had the power, but they lack money to meet the prices of European articles translated into silver plus freight now so heavy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.