Count Itagaki, Minister of Home Affairs, is now paying a visit to this part of the country, and to-day inspected the site of the proposed harbour works for Osaka—The Chenynen, the ironclad captured from the Chinese in the late war, has been repaired and successfully floated out of dock, and is to receive her heavy guns in a day or two.—The work of erecting the Shanghai Boseki Kaisha's Spinning Mills at Wada Point near here is to be taken in hand shortly I hear. The number of spindles is set down at 30,000.
Kobe, 18th June.
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