Mayor Liu Chi-wen is hastening Icho formation of an Estimation Com= mittee to, determine the total assets fof the Electric Company, and the market value of shares, in order ¢o refund shareholders their investment in the company, which is taken over by the Municipality, The City.gov= ernment is anxious to determine the value of the shares to compensate shareholders of interest in the Elec~ trio Company.—Reuter, Tue contract for the re-erection of the new light-draft river gunboat for China, has been placed with the Kiangnan' 'Dock & Engineering Works by Messrs, John 1. Thornycroft, Southampton. Tt will he re= membered, "abort a year ago, the Kiangnan' Dock re-erected the tiver gunboat Paleon, 'Tus, inspection of Japanese goods, which was, discontinued some. time ago. in" Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan,' has been again instituted by students of that city since on, Dec, 28, say the Chinese press. Several rolls of silk and Piece oot, alleged to be Japanese Products, were seized. by the Students' and taken to the Anti= Japanese Association for disposal, hinese press adds,
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