19th Aprit. Yue Annual Report of the China Association for 1892-3 deals with various subjects affecting the interests of British trade with the East. hey include the set made by the Kuangtung autho-tities against the use of transit passes, and the attack made on the hong of Mr. Dent and Mr. Wenyon at Fatshan; the currency question; the latest ''telegraph Convention; the happy substitution of Mr. O'Conor for Sir John Walsham at Peking; the broad question of British relations with China; the Woosung Bar; Yea and its improvement; differential duties on the Canton river; the Hongkong military contribution; non-chopped shirtings; and one or two other thousands, and make Shanghai soon become a model for educational matters a3 is actually the case in other departments coming under Municipal rule Is the Municipal Council in a similar, or entirely different position from the Hongkong Goverment, or School Boards in the home countries? Woald the unloosing of the public purse strings for such purposes arouse the cupidity of each and all who could produce the mere shadow of a claim? Would it tend to make the honorary position of Chairman or member of the Munici Council an agreeable or desirable office Would the Ratepayers' meetings that' minor matters. A considerable step forward was made during the past year in the formation of branches in Shanghai and Yokohama, while Kobe is moving in the same direction and the question is being agitated in Hongkong, where, however, the present movement seems to be more in favour of a Hongkong Association, for purely local purposes, The accounts appended to the report show that the China Association had a cash balance on the 31st of December last of £330 14s. 7d., and dependencies to be collected amounting to £58 5s. 6d.
The matter dealt with at most length in the appendices to the report is the
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