'The Governor of the Portuguese colony, who is now in Europe, is to leave Marseilles for here on the 80th' inst. The Macaense are anxious to see Sr. Horta o Costa in their midst again. He has always been a friend to this forlorn little colony, and it is to be hoped he will come out armed with authority to spend its small revenues on the improvement of the place. The Gamage done to the Praia Grande by the recent typhoon remains untouched because there are no funds to repair it with. The San Domingo market, destroyed by, fire some four years ago, has never been rebuilt for the same reason, and the market now has to be held in the street, rendering it both filthy atid impassable. The much-talked-of harbour improvements get no further than the region of talk, and meanwhile the Holy City, ko Goa, drifts gradually to ruin and hopeless decay.. Will Governor da Costa be able to check this decadence?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.