Feb. 24.
GrapuaLLy, and nowadays at an ever greater pace, the district of Shanghai is taking on a definite shape—perhaps an outline of its appearance when as the great industrial centre of the country its proper development will be visible. With many features we are already familiar: the wide sweep of our river front, the possibilities latent in Woosung as an adjunct to our already extensive harbour, and along the Soochow Creek and other minor waterways factories! bulking ever more largely. What, is afoot along the highways is well known, but the schemes the Huangpu is available through the medium of broad creeks, there industry will establish itself, for waterways are the essence off cheap transportation. Suburbia cannot look to these localities fo home, so it goes to a place such as Kiangwan, supplied of it already is by railway com munication and not too far awa: from the hub of the local unit verse. Now the village of Kiang wan, not being in the track o sightseers for no highway passe its way, is apt to be overlooke by. the foreign public to whey the name suggests principal] racing and golf. The village however, is to-day assuming a importance of its own. It hi long been famed as the home an admirable orphanage, and 1 this direction its activities
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