A Peking telegram reports that there is a small dock beside the Foochow Government shipbuilding yard, built by an Englishman long ago, which is regarded as an impediment to the Government yard. During the Ching dynasty the Government wanted to take the dock over, but the owner demanded £300,- 000 as the price. At present, only $00,000 is demanded, owing to the war. The Ministry of Marine has granted permission to the Government yard to furnish the price for the purchase of the dock.
Projected Silk-Weaving Company.
The Hangchow silk pieoegoods merchants have sent Mr. King Yung-chung to Shanghai as representative to confer with silk merchants at this port as to the advisability of establishing large silk-weaving factory to be worked with machinery on modern lines, as checkmate to the rumoured _intention of certain Japanese to form a joint concern with certain Chinese to do this kind of business, After several meetings, the ilk rice goods merchants of Hangchow, Soochow Original from
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