Last December I described " trip over this line just before its opening. It has now been working for month, and being in that part of the delta Inst Monday I travelled over it once again, Considering that no foreign aid has been invoked it is only fair to state that the line is very adequately managed and, indeed, by local standards would be deemed a fair success, Although the trains are made up of both passenger-cars and freight or construction trucks, they appear to keep punctually [to the time-table.
The rolling-stock is also good, the first-class coaches being indeed loxnrions. It was also gratifying to see the thoroughness with which the third-class carriages are swept out on each arrival at the torminas. (Like some British lines it has no second-class coaches). The fares, however, are unreasonably high. At present' it must be hard to wake the line pay, for at the large town of Ku fou, which forms the northern terminus, most of the lots either are not yet built on or are still in the builders' hands, and the steamers which are to start from there for Canton and Hongkong are not yet in existence. The work is, however, carried out with thoroughness, and in a few years it will no doubt be one of the great ports of the province.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.