The Archive · 1939

Seventy Wears Hgo

From rue "NonrH-CHINA DAILY News," or DrceMsER 11, 1869

From Tientsin:—Some few days back a Chinese gunboat built at the Foochow red here, and from the ey Chung "How has inspected her, and I understand she will remain here till a reply comes back from Peking on gone south, aš we have not seen any is. The wild fowl have all flying over for some days past. The thermometer only fell to last nigh three months.—Sir Rutherford ' Alcock and family are expected here from Peking on the 4th of next month, before which H.M.S. Adventure is expected here to convey His Excellency to. Shanghai.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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