2nd April.)
The quotation we gave last week for Japanese yaru was in paper dollars, the value of which is some five cen's leas than the silver come.
There was a run upon one of the large Chivese banks on Tuesday last, owing to a rumour that the proprietor was in difticulties, All the notes presented were paid at once, but a notice appeared on the door the following morning that the bank would be closed forthwith, admittance only being given to thave who had notes to cash.
Tris expected by the natives that our next tea season will begin later than usual on account of the prolonged cold weather. Asa rule, the native tea-buyers start off for the country immediately after the annual chin-chinning of the dead, which takes lace from the Brat 10 the eighth day ofthe moon, but we understand that this year they will not be leaving s0 early.
We understand that the officials experience great difficulty in collecting the government land tax, Many of the renters are in such straitened circumstances that they cannot pay. These matters of detail, however, are not weighed by the Provincial Treasurer. He has derailed nine magistrates in various local what he considers want of due di their part, which appears, under che well-known ressous for their being behindhand with their returns, rather harsh treatment according to our notions, We hear of no charge of dishonesty. If they cannot get the money they carmot pay it into the treasury. No doubt they have exhausted all the means at their disposal to wring the tax out of the auhappy tillers of the soil but without success in very many cases, and so they are degraded, The tax being conspuratively light, this information proves too clearly the correctness of the reported poverty of the people, since they cannot pay it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.