Woe have had to rub our eyes several times luring the past month or so. Even now we are inclined to doubt the possibility of the things. Shanghai and Nganlutu, ight days for mails to an from, Last year it took month. Th speed is not spasmodic. It is fairly regular, The exception is when either rain comes in sheets and for days or when the courier has been given to perhaps too high feeding and develops large and painful abscesses on arms and logs. First came an inspector, then follow-ex the groatly-augmented mail service Hsiaokan, Yingtseng, and Chinlan, [tis not perfect yet. There is an occasion slip either between here and Hankow, or Hankow and elsewhere, These. slips will now be considerably reduced, Yesterday a branch post-office opened on the East-gate street. Thi office will receive and dispatch mails on alternate days in sealed bags to and from Hankow. If only our status be equal to our eastern neighbour Tebnganfu, our gratitude would Lo unbounded.
The pity now is, with such a great improvement in the Imperial Postal Service there should be so tittle exciting news.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.