East) gives the following news of the Great Siberian Railroad The building of the Siterian Railway may now be considered as definitely resulyed upon. In fully competent she a far ao is known fo uy there exist a fil conviction, that net later than the inning: of spring of the coming year, ste] eae taken for the construction of the several parts of this huge railroad. It will be in three sections, separated from each other by the water systems of the Rivers Obi, Yenisei aod Amur, between which it will According to the survey of the expedition form as it were three separate portages.
made by Mejeninoff, Vyazenaski and Ursati, the length of the sections will be as follows.
The first section, from Tomsk to Irkutsk,—the so-called 'Central Siberiah Railway,"—1,567 versts or 1,035 miles; the second, from' Port Mysofiski on the shore of Lake Baikal, to Stretensk, (or, to speak more accurately, to the village of Matal 5 versts above Stretensk), 1,000} ver 663. miles,—forming the Trans. Railway"; the third, from Port Graffeki on the River Ussuri to Vladivostok, (which will be called the ''Ussuri Railway"), 383 versts or 268 miles. The length of the three sections together will be 2,951 versts,
miles (31 versts) more rails will be re-to 1,956 English miles, About quired for branch lines running from termniroute to the great inland lakes and rivers, the journey by steamers over which will form the greater portion of the Siberian Overland Route from the Ural Mount-alns to the Pacific Ocean. It is believed that the three sections will be commenced simultaneously from Tomsk, Stretensk and Vladivostok.—(Translated and abridged. from the Vladivostok of 31st November The little whaling-ateamer Gennady Nevelskoy, which passed through Shanghai in the autumn, killed her first fish' on 22nd November, & young cow blue-wht near Wrangel Bay, and towed her prize back to Vladivostok. This whale-meat in colour and general appearance, much sembled beef, but it was unfit for salting-down owing to its powerful odour. little steamer belongs to the retired Capt,
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