International Fisheries Exhibition, 



LONDON, 1883. 



Conference on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1883. 



Sir Ambrose Shea, K.C.M.G,, took the Chair. 



FISHERIES OF CHINA. 



After the thousands of years that China has spent apart, 

 the gulf of separation has now been fairly bridged over. 

 Commercial treaties have opened the most important 

 seaports and the interior under special regulations to 

 foreigners, and the Chinese Government, while objecting 

 "to have its hand forced," is watching and testing various 

 foreign appliances, in order to judge how far they may, 

 with advantage, be grafted on existing institutions. Thus, 

 an Imperial College has been established at Peking for 

 the study of Western languages and sciences ; the coasts 

 and the great river Yangtsze have been lighted with 

 the most improved apparatus ; steamers are taking the 

 place of junks ; mines are being worked by foreign 

 machinery ; and the telegraph now brings Peking within 

 a few hours of London. The appointment of Chinese 

 Ministers abroad, of distinguished officials like the Marquis 

 Tseng, and the co-operation of China in the international 

 exhibitions of foreign countries are significant proofs of the 

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