The two motor companies running cars from Siangtan to Changsha and Siangtan to Siang-Siang are! doing a very prosperous business. The low water in the river caused all the best launches to stop running fand it became necessary to ferry over so many places between here and Changsha that the trip by river is very long and tedious, As consequence, all who can afford the extrdamount charged by the Motor Ca. go by motor. The new regulations which were introduced '2 couple of months ago, announcing a regular service of four cars each way during the day, irrespective of passengers had to be stopped, for there were #0 many passengers' that regulations became useless. So the bases now fill up as soon as they arrive and often crowds are waiting for every car. Some good cars fare now in operation Sent by H. Int. eral of Shanghai, Mr. Lee Kwok, an architect of. Shanghai, arrived in Kobe by the R. BIN. 8. Empress of Australia to inspect the site for the mew building of the British Consulate. The "Japan Times" says that the preliminary drawings have already been prepared and that work on the structure will pr ably be started within the six months or a year: The bui ing will hi located on the Bund at Belgian Missionary who has. been captured in two years. One was dead, another died one month Father Mevis was born in 1886
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