From the mountainous region which forms the source of these rivers the boundary line strikes along the bed of a deep gully called Junanhwa and skirts the large village of Baoshen, a very troublesome corner and at one time suppered to bea recruiting ground for Boxer desperadoes. It hangs close to the river Pumenghwa (which is also called Glimzadhwhwa or Big Gold River), but strikes then from Burpoo, a nice little village ensconced amongst trees, past the villages of Bijanjwong and Hsitohsun and, keeping to the north and east of Limit Hill, passes Tsungon, and wakes its way through swampy and then sandy flats to the sea to the north-cact of Baoshen. This swamp and sandy flat intersected by a number of small gullies or creeks, which are resorts of such birds as would at homo come under the game Jaws, and it is consequently a place which would fairly well repay an excursion with sion started from the corner of Kiukiang and Kiangse Roads, the residence of H.E. Sheng (where the deceased died), at about 7 am. and marched through the various streets of the Settlement, stopping finally ab the "Pingchiang Kungso" in the Sinzv district, the mortuary temple of the city of Ch'angchou, the native prefecture of the Sheng family. The coffin of deceased is to be placed here for ut least a year until its tomb has been built in Ch'angeliou, when it will be sent thence with similar pomp.
Deceased had three brothers, and was the 3rd uncle of HE. Sheng, as already stated above, the ln'tr being the eldest son of the eldest brother of the former. The other two brothers, like deceased, never rose above the rank of Taotai and are comparatively unknown. "Deceased had been Manager of the China Merchants' and Imperial Telegraphs Administration at Ningpo for quite a number of years and was on a visit to this port when taken with apoplexy, of which he died the sune day—the 10th of October,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.