To the Editor of the "Norta-Cha Dany News" before im, if your corres "Kuruna" can 60 deliberately misquote it, it simply shows how little reliance' can be placed faced an anything hho thinks or writes, [distinctly referred to George Chinnery's deseriplion of the wonderful vehicle (Chin-breveny, Jen-Man, Cho-Cart or Car). which we now incorrectly Pronounce "Rickshaw."
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T have to-day consulted an old friend who resided in Canton continuously from 1884 up. till 1890, and from him I learn that there was no such vehicle as a rickshaw in Canton in those days. I am still unconvinced: that a. rickshaw was seen in Canton a century and a quarter ago, and prefer the authority of Professor Chamberlain who stated that the jinrikisha was last invented in Japan, as at the time jade.the statement he was, I me, old enough to himself recollect its first appearance. Are
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