We learn that the new railway is now in fair working operation in the southern part of the province. We long to see it Inid here and to listen to the scream of its whistle, which if unmusical tells of Western civilisatio. We shall feel in touch with Europe when the locomotive comes to this mentioning the railway {am reminded of some curious items of news regarding this part of the world appearing in the VC. Daily News, but unknown hereabout. We read that " considerable number of Russian troops came to Moukden; but they have remained hitherto invisible to the eyes of Moukden residents. We read of gold mines taken possession of by Russians, but here such possession or rumours of such possession are quite unknown. The Moukden residents are sufficiently incredulous as to disbelieve entirely the two stories, They are too ridiculous perhaps to be noticed but the spread of such and similar uufounded stories can produce no benefit to anyone. Indeed, the ferment inevitable from the initial stages of Russian work in the interior seems to have entirely passed away Foreigners and Chinese seem now to understand each other better. The readers of the W.-C. Daily News may therefore accept stories of the above kind with more than the ordinary amount of caution.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.