MODERN PORT ARTHUR

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 October 1901, Page 3

MODERN PORT ARTHUR

(Speaking of the Russian Port Arthur, on the Bay of Talieawan, a correspondent of the “North China Daily News’’ (Shangha j says :-'‘'Tho Far East will wake up oae of these fine clays and will find that a fairylike city has arisen on this noble bay as if by magic. It is a fivomito ambition of M. de Witto to make the new free port one of the most beautiful as well as one of the richest trade depots in the world. He has given practically cart blanche to bis engineers, and things are going on on a stupenduous scale. One hears of fourteen miles of concrete quays, moles and breakwaters, boulevards of Parisian glory and dimensions, of hotels, parks, gardens, of hundreds of the villas already in existence, English readers may think this an inversion of the natural order of things, and may hold that it would have been better if these things had followed trade or come into existence pari passu with it, as in Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere ; but M. de Wilte has a boundless confi-

dence in the future of Taltenwau as the terminus of the great railway, and thinks all these things bound to come. He has simply forestalled their creation by private enterpri-e, thinking it will ultimately be to the vast profit of the Government.”