The Shen Pao has recently published the full text of the interesting reports from Mr. Tong King-sing to the Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang, upon the capabilities, of the coal and iron districts to the North-west of Tientsin, which were inspected by him in October last, in company with Mr. Morris, amining engineer. We have already reprinted some extract translations, from the china Mail; but-a connected summary of the pamphlet will not be without interest to many of our readers his visit. He left Tientsin on the 24th The first paper gives a general report of
October in a small steamer for Peh-Vang iB where he found a good anchorage, with as great a depth of water as at Taku, On the second day he reached Lu-lai, a ited without permission.
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