Wenchow, Oct. 21.
A slight increase has been noticeable lately in the number of steam craft coming to this port. Apa't from the usual weekly visits of the three small steamers connecting with Haiman, Chusan and Ningpo and the C.M.S, Feishing from Shanghai, which has been here for a Week this trip, we have had che Kuang Hua (Chinese) from Shanghai and the Unkai Maru (Japanese) from Yokohama, and another somewhat smaller steamer has made its appearance. The Japanese seem to making a bid for more trade with Wenchow. We hear of a Japanese turpentine facto-y outside the South Gate; a three-masted oil-engined ship trades between ha-e and the south (Amoy), said-to be owned by Chinese but flying the Japanese flag; a small launch, sunk in the typhoon, the Hanyang Maru, ran down the river and for 20 miles up the Yobling coast with passengers; and the Unkai Maru, a m re ambitious-looking steamer, took away a cargo of charcoal to Yokohama, her deck being filled also with bundles of the same com: modity.
Week by week the number of junks and lorchas coming into and lying off the city increases visibly, as also the flying to and fro of the smaller craft and sampans, while on land carpenters are busy on every hand and wooden walls are taking the place in many houses of the bricks of former days. Temples are busy, in some instances being ths homes of numerous people who are forced to beg for a subsistence in others the busy appearance is: dus to the number of devotees seek. ing the help these shrines profess to supply, one of the most popular being the Temple of Neptuie on the hill over which runs the city wall, overlooking the river and -the Jistant sea. In two months time he China Merhants N. Ca. hope to have their pontoon in order again.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.