satisfactorily towards Kinchou. A letter ELE, Hu reports the railway progressing received from an engineer on the Lu-Han last week reported rails laid and trains running to within fifteen i of Paotingfu. The trip from Peking to Paotingla can now be made within x day upon the construction trains, In another month the journey will consume about six hours. The power house for the electric rond from Muchiapu station to the Yungting gate is completed and the two large boilers are in place. A number of poles for the transmission wire have been erected and we can now look forward to an electric ride as soon as navigation opens and the rolling stock arrives.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.