Readers will remember a telegram in these columns from Hankow announcing the failure of o Inrge firm there, The liabilities of this large firm "f importers are sid to aniunt toa considerable sum, the chief creditors being the agents of Messrs, Jnedine, Matheson & Ca., Butterfield and Swire, and the China Merchants!. By the failure of this firm the money ninrket has been very tight in Hankow, which has been the means of bronking down five or ix native banks and nantly " defen export and import hongs in sundries and native and foreign cotton cloths, The failure has been the means of can some twenty.
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