JAPAN.
December 29. Several commercial companies have started at Jeddo ; they purpose' raising' mill. machinery; and buildingsteam vessels. A destructive fire ha 3 occurred at Osaka. A contract for the construction of a railway has been taken, and a loan concluded by Mr. H. W. Loy. He represents some capitalists, who entrusted him with money for. loaning to the Japanese Government, for ' the construction of re-productive public works. He now advances Llßo,ooo sterling to the. Government for a line from Osaka to Jeddo. The line will be constructed by English engineers, to be the property of the Government. The Japanese Government are about to issue new dollars, with subsidary coins ; the issue is viewed favorably by foreigners.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 642, 1 March 1870, Page 4
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