Hangchow, Aug. 3.
The S.HLN.R. has been prospecting on the proposed railway from Hangchow to Fuyang, Tunglu, Nyienchow and Gyuichow, and there are lots of coal in the region, it could be made use of in the construction, and the line would bring it to a ready market. Full particulars have been sent to Peking.
It is said that the American Congressionists and their appendices are arriving on the 10th, and Mr. Wong Fong-kau the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs has been sent to Shanghai to meet them.
The Chekiang New Industrial School is progressing so favourably that it is about to send 20 students to the Hangchow Mint to learn how to coin money!
The French ex-President, M. Poincaré (Pan R-we) is expected here on the 7th, and " deputy has already gone to Shanghai to bring him on where he is assured of a warm reception.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.