Mr. Liang Pin-nang, an emigrant merchant now at Nanking, has peti tioned the Viceroy to grant bim a lease of the lands in the vicinity of the Lake near Nanking. On finding the extensive plain in the Chayang District, of Nanking also in a wild state, uncultivated and undeveloped from time immemorial, he conosied the iden of sgricatars and. catio-breeding, ander forming a Company to out
the title of the Agricaltaral and Cattle-breeding Ca, Ld, with rales and palations sit to those of the nation Ca. in the same district, request to lease the plain in question has boon granted by the Viceroy.
As soon as the lands adjourning the Back Lake are all vacated, Mr, Liang will take charge of them. He intends, to start the flotation of the company if not the actual working of the same this winter before Chinese new year.
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