the morning of the 10th inst., the Rt. Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.LG., and the Rt. Hon. R. D. Ormsby, with Messrs, and Wong Chuin-shin, the Chinese tion Commissioners (who had arrived from C: left here for the purpose of delimitating the frontier of the newly acquired territory. The original h proposed anearly straight line Inlet to Deep Bax, will not, 1 hear, be adopted, but it will probably follow the course of a river slightly to the north, Presumably the territory will be formally taken over and the British flag hoisted on completion of the delimitation.
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