is beginning to loom large in the public eye. A yenr ago it was very much in the clouds, but to-day it is among the coming facts of an eventful future. This has been brought home to the colonists by the arrival here of Mr. Large, ©. E,, and party, who are making active preparations to commence a survey of the line, and who intend to start on their mission next week. Ido not know which route they will tale, but they hope, for the sake of the Company, that it will strike inland, and not follow the course of the river, for it will then traverse a country and pass through to
communication with Canton and practically which have no junk or passage nove with Hongkong. The commencement of the Kowloon-Canton Railway will, I fancy, make things bum in the peninsula:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.