(From the Foochow Echo of 30th Jan.)
It would seem that thieves are as hard z|up as many of their betters just now, when we hear that a dressed-up Jus in a Joss-house was despoiled of all his valuable clothing a few days ago.
consequence of the likin collectors having lately tried their land at imposing squeezes on the new Fovchow-made cloth lately introduced, the authorities have, at the request of influential persons, issued a {reclamation declaring the fabric to be free of duty.
We are informed on good authority that the Stewards have definitely stranged for race meeting to take place about the middle of March, though the exact date has not, as yet, been fixed.
We hear that disappointed native ten-men have now positively decided to carry over at least 15,000 chests of their first crop tea to wext season, expecting to do better by holding.. They know their own business best, but it appears to us that unless some ful change takes place in the foreign to which we ship, they will be ug from the frying' pan into the Foochow chanszes are always ready to buy old sexson's common teas when new are scarce and they want tea for price. By June next these overheld teas should ripen into something near this commodity and if chaaszes are wanting tea for price they will buy them, but the holders must not think they can palm off stale hi anything like the price of new ones, how good they may hace been.
No sooner were the oficial off for the holidays than the native hi the city, in collusion with those established in the long street between the city and the bridge and those in Nantai, agreed upon ference in exchange in cashing exch notes, which would bring in a cly return of 10 per cent. In this that for a note issued in the city for, say," 500. cash, only 450 cash were to be paid by the banker in the long street or at Nuntai to the presenter of the note, and This is reverting to an old money, which has ice been prohibited by law, but the ers know that nothing can be the way of redress during the twenty days of the clusing of the official offices, and.no doubt on the expiration of the holidays a change will again be made to conform to the law. Tu the meantime, as the trafic between the people living outside the city with those in it, as well as between those in it with those outside it, is very considerable, especially at Chiao New Year time, a rich harvest will be reaped by the bavkors, for only a minimum of those king their purchases will trudge back two or three or four miles, as the case may be, to cash their notes in their own locality, the great majority will prefer to submit tothe squeeze. We know that there are; Jews amongst. the Chinese, but there are evidently more, in one sense, than have been taken account of.
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