During the trip an_ interesting illustration of the dock company's long shipbuilding record and connexion with the owners of the Kiang Shun occurred, when the twin screw coasting steamer Kwangchi, built and engined by the dock company 34 years ago for the China Merchants Company, passed outward bound to sea, looking spick and span after her long term of service, and giving eloquent testimony to the work of Shanghai shipbuilders.
Another large passenger and cargo steamer for the same owners, to run between Shanghai and Ningpo, will be launched in about two weeks from the dock company's Pootung shipyard.
AN engagement' is announced' between Charlton Thorne, Commissioner, Chinese Customs, second son of the late Joseph Thorne, of Shanghai, and of Southover Grange, Lewes, Sussex, and Nancy Stuart, only child of the late Colonel Norman Stuart Ogilvie, R.a., and Mrs. Ogilvie, 12 Alex ander-square, S. W.—"L. & C. Express."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.