WAKEFIELD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 255, 27 October 1877, Page 2

WAKEFIELD.

[Communicated. ] The annual church tea was held in the school-room yesterday in the presence of a very large gathering of friends. The main feature of the evening was the narrative of a journey from Pekin to St. Petersburg by the Rev. W. A- Whyte, F.R.G.S. The lecture, which wag delivered in a most pleasing and agreeable manner, was interspersed with amusing and graphic descriptions of travel, and was listened to with the greatest interest. The chair having been taken by the Bishop of Nelson, he introduced the lecturer, who commenced by sayiug that he arrived in China in 1863, and, having decided on tearing Hong Kong, he attempted to return via Mongolia and Siberia to St. Petersburg, and thence home. Taking the steamer to Shanghae he reached Yientsu, where the real journey commenced, and from thence to Pekin. His experiences of of this part of the journey were not of the most pleasant kind, as he suffered severely from the rough nature of the country, aud the mode of conveyance, which was of the most primitive kind, consisting of a species of bamboo cage on wheels, minus the springs, the dust being of so penetrating a nature as even to enter a tin-lined case. Pekin was described as a miserable place, where on everything the word " decay " seemed to be legibly written. Being furnished here with passports and Russian credentials, without which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to travel in this part of country, he left for Narsctiow, the journey through the pass being very rough and dangerous. After a narrow escape of beiug robbed he arrived at Kalgau, a town which exhibited many signs of commercial activity, among others the frequent passing of caravans to and from Russia. Here final arrangements were tiiade for crossing the desert of Gobi, which, after various adventures, was finally accomplished Keachta, in Siberia, beiug reached in 33 days. Thence he proceeded by sledge for 5000 miles to Novgorod, the cold being at times intense, the thereraonieter registering as much as H degrees of frost ; but' without much mishap St. Petersburg was finally reached, the time occupied being about four mouths from the date of leaving the south of China Alluding to the labor of the missionaries among the Chinese, he rejoiced to hear that the seed sown in the midst of so much real danger and difficulty, and under the most depressing circumstances, was at last showing evidences here and there of life. The Russians were described as a kind and most hospitable people, but the form of government was far behind the age. For his most interesting and instructive address, the lecturer received the warm thanks of the meeting, and a very agreeable evening was brought tp a close,

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