will be pushed rapidly with the hope that the lino may be open to Weilsien by the end of the year. The local magistrate has not yet returned from Riaochou city, whither he went to attend the festivities in honour of the formal opening of the road between Tsi stao and that city, a h of fifty miles, This important event occurred on the Sth April. We wish the enterprise good success after the many delays and misfortunes of last 10th April.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.