The first Cotton Mill in this Colony, which has just been erected at Sookunpoo, near East Point, is now completed, the machinery is up, and it will commence working some time this month. The overseers have arrived from England, and everything is ready for a start. The mills cover a considerable area, and the tall red chimney is conspicuous object in a district where the factory chimneys do congregate, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Under this information the news grows scantier a3 the warships one by one flit northward to find more temperate climes, or
in the case of the cruiser Narcissus this wa homeward on completion of commission. 'a case of hope deferred, for after starting, for England on the Ist inst. she was obliged to put back when she had been under steam: only six hours, One of her discharge pipes burst, but no one was injured, and the vessel had to return and go to dock to have the defect made The Italian cruiser Amerigo Vespucci left here on the Ist in: for Chefoo. On the 2nd inst. the newly-built Japanese torpedo-bent destroyer Shin-anoine arrived here from London; she left on the 5th inst. for Yokohama, Japan, but put back on the 7th, having encountered very heavy weather. The German cruiser Arene also returned to port yesterday to execute repairs necessitated by the rough weather encountered.
Hongkong, 8th April.
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