An order, valued at £60000, was placed to-day with the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Ca, for sixteen third-class steel sleeping cars for the southern section of the Ca ton-Hankow Railway.
"This brings the value of the orders placed in Great Britain by the Chinese Government Purchasing Com: mission from January 1 to a grand total of 21,748,000, The orders this year include tour steamers costing about £800,000; 34 locomotives, 225 freight cars and a ferry-boat for the Nanking-Pukow railway costing £196,000; rails costing. £475,000; steel shop buildings costing £30,000, and general railway equipment, mostly for the Canton-Hankow and also for the Kiaolsi and Honan railways.—Reuter,
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