"Nortu-Catwa Dany or Jury 8, 1877.
Government was completed on June 27, Japhs ever erected by the Chinese—The first line of tele-
and is now in daily work between the Torpedo College and Mr. Li Hung-changs Yamen. The line has been built by the students of the college under the direction of Mr. Betts, and the ease with which it has been constructed, and the absence of any show of opposition on the part of the people, at once proves the ability of the average Chinese youth to grasp the technicality of foreign science, and the absurdity of the idea that Fung-shut has anything to do with the opposition which telegraphs and railways have hitherto experienced in, China. We understand that Mr. Li Hung-chang takes great interest in the working of the instrument, and spends several hours each day in the office which is one of the private apartments of the yamen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.