Reverting to the railway, it would be interesting to know how many locomotives and how much rolling stock found its way to Port Arthur—permanently—during Russian detention. We can imagine we hear the Russo chuckle at the remark. Take it all in all it is mockery for any one—excepting perhaps the British Government—to suppose that Newchwang is anything else but under the claws of the Bear. To contend otherwise would mark the man who advocated it as either wilfully blind or tensely obtuse. We could use Lord Beacousfield's favourite quotation to him, " Navicet Anticyram." Customs service is taken over in a bare-faced manner, yet managed as if the Chinese had an interest in it, but the skull and eross-bone-like commerce Russia tells another tale. Wh ship that comes here pays her duties? And to the and of the tale The Power Administrat We crea believe that Newchwang is auth cing up.
denuded of Chinese officials as Moukden i: or if they do exist they have to are told and not raise those fami tions to Western improvements that other Powers listen to. Russia has Improved the General Appearance of Newchwang but there is ample room for further advance. The ground that was formerly " waste on the Bund has been cou-verted. An open swimming pond has been dug out and " diving plank and otter sories plied but. the Tuxury surroundings is denied. The band is u centre for solid pathways ments: a decided improvement on the slimy mud that used to cover the plot, but the feeble gardening hus spoilt the tout-ensemble entirely. The shrubs and withered points are allowed to nod to death in a painfully melancholy manner and the re: fective mind grows sad amidst th desolation. The musi round for the a feeling of di beholding a fairy-like fix wtlancing on the bare back steed whilst trotting along the warden paths. I have said the music crashes but that is a too grandiloquent term except we apply it to our nerves. A school of inexpert amateurs would reach the point of blowing these sounds from the brasses and yet be unconceited with their performance.
IL. M. S. Espicgle was successfully docked on Thursday. Sth inst. A great crowd of coolies 1 in hauling her although the Espiézle was under her own steam. The American Helena will be docked further up the river for her winter quarters. at the Masonic Hi 3 is the second tenure of this importer by Bro. Schmidt and he deserves the honour as he is well known among the fraternity for his efficiency. Bros. de Burgh Daly and Seveadal performed the installation with a smoottiness that, called forth much praise in the after remarks. A banquet followed to which all the brethren did ample justice.
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