For the past year and more practically all trafic has been stopped between here and the coast. The Post Office have refused to accept any parcels and thus all ways of getting stores ete. from the const Have been an impossibility. Not only' has this been very inconvenient to unfortunate foreigners residing up here in this district, but also it hag been ruinous to all foreign firms.
No wool is being sent down this year owing to no means of transport. If this state of affairs goes on, it] will be disastrous for the already mentioned foreign firms. Thus, wool this year is at a remarkably' low figure, the lowest it has been for some years. It is also sad to relate that many of the smaller shops hava had to close up, for the simple reason that they have had nothing to sell. One wonders what. will happen in these out-of-the-way places where means of transport are %0 difficul if the road is not opened up shortly.
This is in direct result of the many] [demonstrations which have been organized by the new official, acting as] Tao-Ing. This same official seems t" Jdelight in creating bitter feeling] against the foreigner, and goes out of his way to do it.' Quite a few public plays have been acted in the jolty, and they have been directly against the foreigner. On more that been one the Roman!
Catholic priest, and the disguise was} a hideous specimen, Word has just come to hand tha: Rev. H. French Ridley has arrived safely in Tihwafu, it having taken! him just 97 days to do it. We wish him the best of wishes as he takes up his work for the China Inland Mission there in that city, along with, Rev. G.W. Hunter, Rev. P.C. Mather will be leaving for furlough, it ing been some 16 years since he saw the Old Country. He will be! travelling home vid Russia, for this isa somewhat easier road, to coming. all the way down through China to the coast.
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