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“...imported from Manila. These ropes
have a ready sale locally and in China, and I noticed bales of hawsers
being shipped for use in the oil wells of Burma. The manager
informed me that the colour of the hemp was not so good as in
former years. What struck me in the rope factory was the small
amount of superintending native labour required, and what there
was consisted mainly of small boys. Among other industries
carried on by foreigners are several engineering and shipbuilding
works, steam saw mills, two match factories, a glass works, a soap
and soda factory (German), a feather cleaning and press packing
works, an ice factory, and a steam laundry. There is also a paper
mill fitted with British plant for the manufacture of Chinese paper,
and a large flour mill with American machinery has recently been
erected at Junk Bay. The latter is capable of turning out
400,000 lbs. of flour a day, and another mill of similar capacity is
projected. The bran and refuse food-stuffs are to be used for
fattening...”
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“...contains. Most of this refined tin is
sent to the different ports of China, the balance going to the United
States and Germany. The refinery which I visited was the largest
of the four and could turn out 8 tons of tin a day.
In Hong-Kong there are several establishments engaged in the
manufacture of vermilion, an operation which consists in subliming
the black sulphide resulting from the heating of sulphur with
quicksilver. The red sulphide is then pounded in mortars and
ground with water in stone mills, the vermilion thus deposited
being collected and dried on trays arranged in specially heated
rooms.
The above are examples of the principal foreign and Chinese
industries carried on in Hong-Kong, but the subject attracting
considerable attention in the colony at the moment is the con-
struction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. On the invitation of
the Governor of Hong-Kong, I visited, along with his Excellency
and Admiral Moore, the south end of the tunnel now being pierced
through the main Kowloon...”
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