There is perhaps no port in China where the monotony is more unrelieved and deadly than at Hoihow. The foreign community is not only exceedingly limited, but its members have for the most part to live in Chinese houses. But even at Hoihow the wave of progress appears to be slowly rippling up. Boundaries have at last been set up for a new British Consulate near to and west of the site on which the Roman Catholic monastery was erected in 1895. A report is current, too, that a Custom House is shortly to be built. The Customs officials are making arrangements to take over the post office.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.