The snthorities have taken up in earnest the making of the Kialat road. The work to be done will give " roadway fourteen feet broad from the Custom House down to the Anglo-Chines College. If well made, and maintain ed, it will enhance considerably the value of property beyond the present. building limits to the east of Swatow.
The native waterworks scheme has been launched at s public meeting at which several of the officials were present. Water from the Ch'aochoufa iver is to be collected and treated at spot some four miles up stream, an then led into Swatow. At present it is only " mild gravitation scheme, but no doubt later it will develop in the direction of a pumping tower and other modern accessories. A growing port like Swatow cannot be served by anything which does not offer sufficient pressure to ensure protection against fire for the high buildings now springing up on all hands.
The Canton-Foochow Railway scheme seems destined to be wrought out in sections. Up in the Fukien province concessions for parts of the line are being applied for, while down here it is that the Ch'soshan Railway Company have obtained permission to construct that part of the line which will pass through the districts controlled by our Taotai,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.