He was at Rorke's Drift, and appears with that heroic band in Miss Elizabeth Thompson's painting.

Leaving the army, C.held for a time a commission in the mounted constabulary of Madras, and now he is a third class assistant tidewaiter in the Imperial Maritime Customs of China, with a salary as low as his spirits are high.
Chungking is an open port, which is not an open port.

By the treaty of Tientsin it is included in the clause which states that any foreign steamer going to it, a closed port, shall be confiscated.

Yet by the Chefoo Convention, Chungking is to become an open port as soon as the first foreign steamer shall reach there.

This reminds one of the conflicting instructions once issued by a certain government in reference to the building of a new gaol.