The reclamation of the foreshore ut the "narrow reach" of the Canton river, whereof a substantial bund will be the result, appears to have been seriously begun. 'That the Pearl river should have abund from East to West, as Shanghai and Hankow, has been the dream' of certain progressive Chinese during the last twenty years. Unfortunately, when the land is reclaimed, and the bund built, there will not be space enough for gar. dons as you have in Shanghai—a refreshing trysting-place on a summer's evening. Here land is too valuable and money too searce to hope for such a boon. Still, it will hea great improvement when there is a long straight road from the Kast of Gunton to the steamer wharves, where ricshas can ply, and, perhaps. at'nu very distant date, electric trams run. H. E, Chang Chih-tung more than twenty years ago, built a short section, which has been used up to this day as the official landing-stage. At that time it was hoped that the work would have been completed, but the time was not yet. His Excel. Ieney's bund will now be removed, I believe, and the whole will be pushed further out towards the centre of the river. The section near the Canton-Hankow railway ferry wharf is well on its way towards completion, and a large piece of
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