In 1877 Messrs. Major Brothers started a photo-lithographic establishment. The reproduction of hooks." "Many old standard work done was principally confined to the works now out of print and originally printed not from movable type but from wooden blocks (i.e., woodcuts) have been reproduced, as well'as many smaller works where cheapness of the process was its only recommendation. The great success of this undertaking led to its purchase by a Chinese company and to the starting of innumerable competitors, but the business was overdone and most of the smaller con-corns collapsed. The original works still exist but the largest concern is the native one in Seward Road. The industry now bids fair (0 give a considerable amount of employment and its productions are found all over the empire, but its effect on the outer world cannot be great.
SILVER REFINING, Many years ago Messrs. Little commenced the parting of gold and silver on a c-nsiderable scale, all the old silver sycee of the district containing an appreciable amount of gold, They subsequently disposed of the plant to Messrs." Major Brothers who soon found it better to allow natives to make use of the plant and to confine themselves to the manufacture of the sulphuric acid to be used in the process, The present acid works which are of considerable size were erected and it is a question if the manufacture of acid ought to be classed as one of the established manufactures of Shanghai. The manufacture of soap which has been carried on for some time by the same firm, and which has lately been started on a' considerable scale, can hardly as yet be looked upon as definitely established, but the ease with which most of the raw materials can be obtained, and various other cireumstances justify one in prophesying a great future for this, the latest addition to our industries.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.