I reported some months ago an extraordinary ruling of the Canton Finance Bureau that a deed of perpetual lease of land made out to a foreign national carries with right of sale to another party, the particular case on which it was made being a proposed purchase by the English Presbyterian Mission of a new site for their hospital. understood that the Finance Bureau has now withdrawn its objection, under pressure from Nanking, and that the transaction will be allowed to go forward. 5 According to newspaper reports the pontoon bridge which at present crosses the branch of the river between tne railway station and the city is to be replaced by a ferroconcrete structure, and work is to be Degun on. it almost at once. The new bridge will cost about two hundred thousand dollars, and the main part of this amount is to be found by the railway company. The present approach to the railway sta~ tion is far from worthy of the city: and it is to be hoped that his report proves true.
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