The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-04-20

aaeal lapah failvay. accompanied 10
tsthtY tout euPitssIs and etpefit. ltIl
Kuhs fuf uofta 90 tho go inst bf tht
Miro Mafu The pafty tsya Ihs iapen
fiaeftif stll met Ufurnrd o. Hui nnd
aftff hatinf ohihinfd che permission ui
the government viii commence q kuf
tey NJ the proposed falipas route. thr
most diHlfuli nRft fuf che construction
" railway 10 bel Nsrn nsaW aud lriHnn
4 distance NJ 700 miles The dlsifirtf
are mountainous. ana moreover there
is river nalled tho Nab dong. the
bridging ~ vhlch viii BE- Gigantic and
dlfncult pieces ~ sngineering taually
the river 10 dry hut Ia case Of heavy
fains II oveffows its banks inundatine
tae neiehboflng country Tho efforts
" the surveyors will mostly bp di-
rected 90 making n project for the
bridging of this river. and the survey
must be finished before July. when the
rainy weather sets In. The promoters
of the railway propose 20 achieve their
object by obtaining government sup
port In the next session Of the Diet, by
means OF accurate estimates as &c the
cost OF the undertaking, etc, in the coll
lection OF which they are now about TO
engage. II may be added that the pro-
motere have decided upon the adoption
of broad gauge limo.
Peking-Hankow Line.
Work 10 being pushed vigorously on
the Belgian (Peking- Hankow) Rail-
way. About seven miles from Han
kow, several thousand men are at work.
Rails are laid, and two Belgian locomo-
nt N NJ fro I'M
the fat cars used by the workmen. A
third locomotive ie being set up. Near
or the city, work has not progressed so
far. Heaps OF stoneon the fiat plain be-
hind the city indicate the general course
of the tracks, but there is nothing to
make one hope that the traffic can be-
gin soon.
Travelling Digaitaries.
IL, c." in the Courier d'Haiphong,
writing OF M. Doumer, the Governor of
French Indo- China and his raid" into
Yunnan, calls the visit mistake We
know" he says, how the great digni-
taries of China travel. The ceremony
displayed by them in the smallest jour
ney seems to Europeans nothing short
of supplying. Chinese custom renders
II necessary. The sight, therefore, OF
NJ. Doumer riding on horse back with
no particular pomp or in the 'devourer
OF miles 1.-THE train) caused a smile
and prompted the witty. remark that
the Governor travelled as his own SER
want. These little details are nothing
in our eyes; with the Chinese they
have tremendous importance" M.
Doumer's error unfortunately is only
fnn Enrnnnon iri a1c
dealing with the Chinese.
Russians in Manchuria. -'
Captain Morita, a military attache in
the Japanese Legation, who has been
travelling in Manchuria since Septem-
Der last, returned to Picking recently,
after completing an inspection of Kirin,
the Amur river and Liaoyang. He re-
ports that work on the railway in Man
churia by the Russians was suspended
in the winter time. The line was al
ready finished in parts. but the work
was done very carelessly, and travelling
on the line In some parts was dan
ger0us In the extreme. He had travel
led by the East China railway, which
was already completed from Yingkingl
(Newchwang)' to Port Arthur. The
rails were laid and materials were be-
ing daily transported, but the line has
not been opened for passenger or goods
traffic. Captain Morita was told by
Russians that the line would be OPEN
ed to the public from Port Arthur to-
Fengtien (Moukden) by way OF New
chwang and Haiching, in eighteen.
months. A section of the line has been
laid temporarily, but travelling on it
was extremely dangerous, owing to the
steepness Of the gradients, which In
some cases were followed by sharp
curves. One section was finished, and
1t was somewhat stronger and better,
but Captain Morita comes to the con-
clusion that the line on the whole Is
badly constructed and will not compare
with the lines in Japan.
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