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" We should therefore once more offer to yourself and to Mrs. 

 Little, the sympathetic companion of your present successful 

 voyage up-river, now so happily accomplished, our most hearty 

 and united congratulations, with the expression of the hope that 

 you may live many years to see great development in the steam 

 navigation of the Upper Yang-tse, which you have always 

 indefatigably advocated ; while to yourself alone will always 

 remain the honour of having brought the first steamer into the 

 port of Chung-king." * 



[Here follow the signatures of 

 all (about sixty) the foreign 

 residents in Chung-king.] 



This was followed by congratulatory telegrams from the 

 British Minister, from Consuls and others in different parts of 

 the Empire, and from the " Ratepayers of Shanghai in Public 

 Meeting assembled ;" i.e. the Cosmopolitan Parliament of the 

 Commercial Metropolis of China — the well-known " Model 

 Settlement." 



* Extract from the North China Herald, Shanghai, nth April, 



