The National Magazine New Series. October 1898

a cert-.in sum to allow the directors of the to visit the commercial and professional establishments of G :riry.t.iy w.lile delegations from a few trades will be also orr;-.1.izA Iv the Minister of Commerce and Indutry to study the machinery of the associated trade: of artisans at work. [...] The course of the Koura a mountain torrent known to the ancients as the Araxes is followed by the line of rail. [...] The measure has been prepared for by the comencement of a railway between Tiflis and Teharan ; and so intolerable is the prevailing misrule that the nominal subjects of the Shah would gladly accept the sway of the Great White Emperor." The Persian quarter at Tiflis is at the south eastern extremity of the town. [...] The battle of the gauges has lately been revive3 In a new form in the shape of a controversy in the daily press on the relative merits of the 2 ft. [...] The dispute has been characterised as gauge d:sputes always have been by the very extraordinary ignorance on the nail of the disputants of the capabilities of any gauge except the pal cular gauge they champiou and the success or failuie of a line has been held to be a sufficient condemnation of the gauge on Which it is built.