A few days since there was a great excitement on our usually peaceful streets, Early one morning, a man carrying a large jar of salt stepped into a confectionery shop on the main street and called for some 1 bon!
us. After eating these, he rose uj leave, when the clerk called his uttention to the jar of salt. "Oh," he said, "I'm Goming back, and will take it away then," The clerk protested that by this course he [should be placed in an equivocal position, but the man departed without the salt. This favourite game, as well-known as the "bunce" ruse-in Western lands, was followed up with despatch. In than 624 an hour, another man entered the shop, and seeing the salt, the pro: prietor of smuggling. "Tu vain he protested his innocence and stated the circumstances ofthe case. The other was not so simple believe a fabrication so transparent, The whole question at issue was one of speedily—or the law and its consequences. money, and the shopman niust pay and that he shopman reduced to this distress, yield-But the "bunce" man over-reached unself and thinking he had his victim safely on the hip, demanded a larger sum than the shopman could r: 'The latter would give a third, and finally offered nearly one-half, but la vain. The Salt Commissioner was informed, and accompanied by his staff, attempted a' seizure. Then followed a genuine Chinese riot such as experience has proved in the end most s ble to bring such rascals to their knees. There was no useless resistance of authority, but every tradesman shut up shop, and for one whole day there was 4 sabbath rest of traffic on all the main streets of the city. The Chou official settled the affair to the satisfaction of his people, and then at length the wheels of trade turned round once more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.