On the invitation of Messrs. S. C. Farnham, Boyd and Ca., Ld., the above Society paid a visit to their Shipbuilding and Engineering Works at Pootung on Saturday afternoon.
About 0.30 p.n., a party of some 25 members left the P. and 0. jetty, on board the fine tender Victoria, which had kindly been placed at their disposal. On nearing the Pootung side of the river the tender was met by smaller launches, which took the visitors to the jetty in front of the works, where the party was met by Mr. J. Prentice, Managing, Direc-for, and Messrs. J. Johnston, C. W, Hay, Groundwater, and D. Cranston, Directors. An adjournment was immediately made to the offices of the Company, where sumptuous repast was prepared and to which full justice was done. Mr. Prentice, who took the chair, was supported by Mr. G. James Morrison, President, Mr. T. Bunt, Vice-President, Messrs. C. Mayne and T. Weir, Members of Council, and Mr, C. H. Godfrey, Honorary Secretary of the Society.
After tiffin, Mr. Prentice proposed neces to the Shanghai Society of Fingineers and Architects," coupling with the toast the name of the President, Mr. G J. Morrison.
Mr. Morrison, in. reply, thanked the Directors of the Company for the kind manner in which they had received the Society, and for their kindness in allowing, the members to view their extensive works.
Before proceeding to inspect the works a_sum of $275 was subscribed in aid of Miss Mills's school for deaf and dumb Chinese.
The party then proceeded to inspect the engine and boiler shops, forges and furnaces, and great interest was evinced in the comparatively easy manner in which huge forgings were handled.
Inter an. all too short inspection of these extensive works, the party again embarked on the Victoria and were taken down to the Cosmopolitan Dock, where a fine spectacle was presented by the Muenchen, a wreck purchased by the Company and now being turned out almost as a new ship. Again embarking on the Victoria, the visitors were taken to the International Dock. where the German warship Hansa was standing high and a Th cruiser is sated to he the biggest that has been docked in Shanghai up to the present, and the Company and its officials are to be congratulated on the businesslike appearance of the timber blocks on which the ship stood, The powerful set. of four centrifugal pumps, by the aid of which the dock can be emptied in 3 hours, were next inspected, and the party then retrimed to Shanghai on the Victoria, after a most interesting and instructive outing. wonderment being expressed at the extensiveness of the works and the excellent control under which Chinese Tahour had been brought.
Before landing at Shanchai, Mr. Morrison took advantage of the occasion to thank Mr. Prentice and other Directors of the Company, and the officials who had so admirably acted as guides, for their
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