(By Telegraph.)

(KtOM OUR SPECTAX CORRESPONDENT.)

WELLINGTON, July 19. Quite a number of New Zealanders have friends and relatives in various treaty ports in China. Mr Stott, of the National Bank, has a sister in Shanghai. She is the wife of the manager of an insurance company there. Mr Joynt also has a sister in the same locality, viz., at Hang-chow, some distance to the south. She is a missionary under Bishop Moule. There is a consider able European population in Shanghai, but it is doubtful if they would be able to resist any -sudden rising. In conversation with Mr Allen, of the "Evening Post" staff, who was for two years in the British Legation in Pekin, and is exceedingly well posted in Chinese affairs I learned to-day that warships might have some trouble in getting past the forts at the entrant di the river that leads to Shanghai. Apart from the forts, there is a big bar, and it is only during about three hours of tbe day that vessels could get up. However, it is quite possible that the war ships get there before there was any dis turbance, and that the white people will be undor due protection. It was at Shang hai that- the first railway was built in China from Shanghai to Woo-sun.g. The line was constructed by a British syndicate, but the Chinese were so conservative that they bought the line back alb an enormous profit to tihe syndicate, and had it.all torn up. That was alb-out twenty years ago. While he was in China, Mr Allen met Dr. Morrison, the correspondeat of "The Times," who is amongst the massacred in Pekin. Dr. Morrison was then on his first visit through China, which he accomplished with tihe aid of a boy interpreter. Dr. Morrison dressed in ChinEse costume, but knew nothing oi* the language, so that his advetfture was a somewhat plucky, not to say daring, one. Mr Al'-en mentioned that recent maps published do not show the full extent to which .the Russian railway has been com- j pleted.
