in China Peking, April 8 One' of Chinw's oldest foreign residents eft Peking this afternoon route' to England in the person of the Rev. "Evans "Meech? who fetiren after" G1 years" Work ana inisnionary in Obi Meech, Who ts nearly ninety years old, 00k sixty: days to reach China feom London in a, "Bhus amex, in 1871" and took
Which Journey he did this tave Pekin hom afternoon in three hous.
Sixty-one years and one week '90, he call en Sir Thomas Wade, then British Minister at, Peking, and on Thursday he called on Sir Miles Sampson, the present Mine to bid hin farewell.
Mr. Meech arrived here, the Chinese Emperor had not. yet received the British Minister, thers was not a single mile of telegraph line or railway, and the post office wax non-existent.—Reute Tue value of stores lost when LIN. Submarine Poseidon
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