"From Article VI of the Convention it is certain that the work of verifying and demarcating the new frontier must be commenced next open season, as the year of the signing of the Agreoment—Joint A gewagere a meet within one that is before the 4th February, 1898, Tt is clear that the trade advantages of the New Convention far outweigh the value of the territorial additions, but still there are grounds for satisfaction that China's breach of the former convention has given the opportunity of correcting the frontier, in one or two places, where it certainly required it. For instance, it is not easy to see how by the Convention of 1894 Sima was given over to China, it being clearly a bad principle to give up territory which has been acquired by force of arms, and with the loss of British officers. Somehow, this matter seems to have escaped notice at the time, as also the fact that the bodies of the officers were removed to Rangoon in consequence of the al territory having become Chin ese. the duty itself, but farms out the right to do so under a'license which is put up to Kiandalay: 'The present licensees are Can-ublic auction, by the' Commissioner at ton Chinese, and they hold the license for two year at an annual payment of between Rs. '50,000 to Rs. 60,000. The previous licensees were Yunnan Chinese, and they held the license for three years, THE INDIA RUBBER TRADE, Besides the jadestone business, a large trade is done is these parts in India. rubber, which is bought mostly by Yunnan Chinese, who advance money to the Kacbyens to bring in rubber in balls, as extracted from the trees in the wild parts beyond the jade mines, where traders do not care to venture. This rubber, too, pays duty, but to the Government, by weight.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.