The Kuangtung mandarins, not content with devising taxes on foreign imports into Ching, are now exercising their ingenuity how to make the foreigner pay further toll. Likin is accordingly levied on firewood and various articles of consumption, with the result that the cost of living has been considerably enhanced. The Chinese of the Colony feel the squeeze even more that the foreigner, and complaints are loud among them of the high prices they have to pay for "chow" and fuel. It is time some remonstrance was addressed to the Kuangtung Government.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.