London, Nov. 28.
Sir Edwin Stockton, M.P., in an address on the conditions im the cotton trade and the effects of foreign competition, at the Manchester College of Technology, to-day, said that he considered that propects had improved in India and a reasonable amount of optimism was justifiable. China and id Near East showed a promise of returning to normal conditions. Dear goods were gradually being liquidated and' stocks of English textiles held there were but small.—Reuter.
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