We welcome the new facilities for travel by rail. Constraction train are ing, we hear, from Tieatsia te Shantang, and soon rapping south as direction of the hai. goal of Shang We see from your colamas that there is a possibility of a railway advocated for many years between Chefoo and Weihsien bring began; aleo that ander the vigorona rale of the new Taotai we may hope for the long-talked-about breakwater being began io the barbone re. Thus two of the schemes argod by the writer pushment are, we hope, 0 may to be realized.
The Christmas festivities have been daly honoured by observance merry a manner as circumstances would small and often widely scattered, yet all the traditions are observed and the children at aay rate have no just cause lo the older people
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