The s.8. Glenesk g above the Lake Creek near the 's yamen discharging a Jarge cargo of machinery for the Cotton Mill and Iron Works. As she can carry between five and six thousand tons by measurement, her burden of machinery, though of course much less by weight, is very considerable. Barges laden with huge cases float down to the wharves of the two Works, one on the Yangtze, the other on the Han, and there " travelling steam crane saves considerable hand labour, Coolies dragging trollies on stone rollers do the rest, and huge stacks of machinery are rapidly filling up all available godown space. The Glenesk also brought out three Lancashire master-workmen to superintend the erection of the machinery, and by and bye to train the first Chinese operatives in the Cotton Mill, It is understood that they are the first comers of a number. Lancashire hardheadedness and straight: ness of speech is no undesirable element in introducing to China the machine-trade that has made Lancashire's fortune in the old country.
Srd September,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.