(Concluded from last week)
Beside the new over the Yellow both] of an advance are the candle, soap, glass and woollen manufactories. The candles are an improvement on the native tallow candle, but the wax falls short of the foreign and the price is not mach cheap per. The soap cannot be compared to the nice scented coops in the Pekinese shops, being hard and void of perfume. The woollen manufactory is in fall working order, bat progress is out of the question as long as the control is in the bands of the natives. The outcome of inevitable squeeze is that inferior wool is now being bought. Fear lest the foreigner gote too much control on the one hand, mistrust of each other on the other band prevents any success of what would otherwise be successful enterprises.
Alli products are sold at the Government warehouse in which I am told The day before our arrival the whole of the police force bad been rigged out with new suits of woollen cloth made in the factory. They are o dark blue hoe, The clothes sre made in the Government style and the men with their blae peaked hats with a gold band upon it looked very smart So tight are the trousers that it is generally reported that they were made that the men could not sit down while on duty. We hope the smartness of force will be kept ap to the mark.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.