Among certain sections of the Jocal community so great a his torical sense prevails. that it seldom a local problem of some propounded without, being immediately solved. Two or more solutions to such a problem occasionally present themselves, but when controversy arises, the public is certainly not the loser. With a have made in the "Shun Pao" yesterda; morning in respect of a letter which this paper hag received from a Mrs. Home, a resident of Canada, asking for assistance in finding out: about her—grandmother-in-law. According to the statement in the "Shun Pao" the letter from Mrs. Home says that her grandmother: indaw was the daughter of a Manchu nobleman and was married to Sir Robery Them, the first Britich Consul-Generat' in Ningro, who signed the Nanking Treaty. 1842 and died at Ningpo in 1816. We ave to confess that. it is
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