To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Ciuxa Dany News"
Sin-—-Re'the letter in your Issue of the and inst. written. cly 1003 con-jeering the Ningpo run, I must conther Cradict several of his stalements, The Pekin and her sister-ship Shaoghal. (along with two others, the Hankow, and Techang) were built for the Yang. tsze trade, but after a while, the last named boat was put on the Ningpo run and continued on that run until she was totally lost outside Ningpo. (close to where the Tungchow struck? and I believe a part of her walking-beam frame may still be seen, It was then. that the Pekin took "up "the Ningpo business and held It until otd age dcelded otherwise, 1. travelled many" times on the three first-named vessels on the Hankow run, when was on my summer holidays, 7's and carly 80's and 1 was ard Engineer of the T-chang, In the spring, 1886, when she wag running to water's edge, somewhere up river and the ola Hankow met the same fate, whilst lying at her wharf, at Hong: ong. ruutane J, Eowanos, Shanghai, Jan,
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