To the Editor of the "Nonrm-Cursa Day Niws."
Sin,—You were good enough to publish my letter commenting on the Echo de [Chine's" statement that the Catholic Mission's title deeds, on the strength of which it is now converting a public road into a canal, are "clean." In reply to my rejoinder that on the deed of transfer given by Messrs. Sassoon in June, 1876, an express exception was made of $ mow 1 fun for a public road, the ' Echo" admits the damning entry, hut in characteristic fashion remarks that " Mr.' Camp and his friends fave the singuliére preterition by placing them" (the 8 mow od!) "where they cannot be placed.
He goes on to tell me that next to nothing of what T am tal about, apparently drawing this amiable conclusion from the fact that I transinte *Kwangsti 3rd_year interealury 5th moon'!py 'June 1876,' when I ought to have said 'July'. (The moon commenced on June 29nd).
He, on the other hand, can cavity establish by documents in his _poss: ssion This contention about the "'singular pretension" as aforesaid.
This is where he has the advantage of us, and it is precisely this of which we complain.
Why is he, who lives at Shans has no sort of interest in the well-being our settlement, permitted not only to see, Lutapparently 10 Keep copies of the docu: mentary evidence on which Bishop Reynaud relies, while the residents at Ningpo who are being deprived of their rights cannot, individually or collectively get from the Bishop a plain statement of is claim, let alone the proofs of it? Ib is a "poem" that we, who unless we can swim will soon unable to use our road, should have dared to remonstrate. The only persons, according to the "Echo," who have a right to require proof of the Bishop's title to other people's property are those who registered it—that is, the Bishop himself—or those vho by competent authority R. Dawy, The Shanghai Cyclery.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.