of our port is imminent, and the regular vessels are now making their last trip: most of our merchants have got their stut away without the usual bury-scurry: though there are pea-nuts on the bund sufficient to load up four or five big vessels. The temperature is steadily falling and the ponds are all hard frozen over: the long unbroken spell of fine clear sunny weather continues without any signs of dust or wind.
'MR. E. F. G. HATCH, M.P., is an enterprising man in more ways than one, he travels with a cinematograph and with an expert to take films illustrative of native life in the various places he visits, He kindly offered to give an exhibition in aid of the finances of our Church Building Fund. But the bestiald plans lof mice and M. P.'s gang aft agley; the by twenty-four millions of an industrious and vigorous population, and with immense natural resources' of every kind, should be shut to foreign enterprise, At last the voice of ranson has prevailed. The mandating have. given way, and set apart Chengliuki as a place of foreiga residence, 0 that Hunan may be opened, The place in question is a little town on the right bank of the river, fire miles below the city of Yochou, and opposite the point where the waters from the Tungting Lake join the Yangtze. In some respects the location has been well chosen. The ground of the new Settlement is elevated and airy, while the surroundings are pleasing. The water off the frontage is deep, and deep draught steamers can reach it all the year round, while the river boats bound to and from chang can take it en rowe without going out of their way. On the other hand, it is a place of absolutely no trade, and where any is to come from is hard to see. To call ita port in Hunan is little better than a fiction. of Tungting will bear that description.
mmercially, no place on the wrong side Tt might just as well have. been at King-ho'kou, which is already a calling-place for steamers, and is in Hupei on the other side of the river, exactly opposite.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.