Tu your leading article of the 23rd inst. you quote from the Customs Report to the effect that the run from Tsingtao to Weihsien is made in 9 hours, 21 minutes, being at the rate of 12 miles an hour. This is already, however, quite out of date. The distance is now' covered in 5 hours, 39 minutes, giving an average of over 20 miles an hour. Besides this great acceleration since last year the railway has now reached first train there having been run this weel Chouts'un may be called the commercial centre of the province "ud is a town of perhaps 80,00 people; the opening the station there should' have a marked effect on the Tsingtao trade.
Dearth of Ne this place is a real Sleepy Hollow: and As far as interesting news concerned though T might fill a paragraph with telling how one missionary has left and another has arrived, I cannot believe the public cares much, and I forbear, HANCHUANHSIEN,
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