Viceroy Chang Chih-tung caused great rejoicing among the local gentry afew days ayo by sending them a dispatch saying that he had cancelled the concession held py the Hankow-Canton Railway Company. On receipt of this inform the leading gentry met and resolved as to ways and means of coi railway the selves. The result was that lo to understand wha was already known, that the gentry of Hunan are tenaci ussly fighting the forei ernest he get fustheld in this province. 'A bureau was established to take charge of the railway and a grand opening of the ottica took place. "itis Excellency the Governor and the Various Tao als attended, A troupe of first-class Chinese artists were employed fr the entertainment and a costly dinner was served. Those who know are afraid that the railway will get no farther than the establishing of the bureww assis the case with every undertaking when none but Chinese capital is interested, although it is reported that
and that the work of construction will Japanere engineers have been "employed Legin at an early date, The New Copper Cash Mint, which has been supplied and set up by a German firm, is now in operation and is turning out more than fifty thousand cash coins per day. The plant is a model one in all save the poorly constructed buildings. Mr. Hunke, the engineer in charge, will leave here for Foochow about the end of July. There he will set up a similar plant which has been sold to Fukien province by the same firm.
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