London vid Bombay, 9th December.
At the British North Borneo dinner, Sir Charles J. Jessel, Bart., Vice-Chairman of the Company, presided over a distinguished company. Mr. Cowie in his speech welcomed Chinese into the territory, defended the policy of railway extension, which had already remarkably stimulated industry, ridicriled the assertion thatthe Company was anxious to tempt Creat Britain to buy the colony, and hoped to be shortly able to announce that arrangements have been made to work coal, iron, and manganese on a large scale.—Reuter.
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