The Archive · 1897

New Postage Stamps

were put on sale here on the Ist of October.

The new issao of Imperial Postage stamps A local merchant issued an express stating that he wanted haifa-million of the old ones for somebody. The needy Chinese Government may yet turn an honest peony over its stamps.

REVIVED FOOCHOW TEA, The Ten Improvement Company is working away yet and its machinery is ted showing the world (of Foochow) that the local tea trade need not die. The season however is practically over as, the crop, short in the beginning, has been all sold.

9th October.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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