The ever recurring question of the claims for destruction of property in the riot of 1891 has cropped up gal indeed, like the poor, they seem always to be with us, The sitting of the late mixed commission was, as I pointed out at the altogether abortive but only partially successful. The claimants who were summoned to attend to support their claims did not—after learning the only terms on which the Chinese Commissioner was empowered to settle, viz. " reduction of a certain percent-chaffer with a Celestial "who brought a eon each—care to appear to haggle or
biassed mind and limited powers to such a Gifticult task," Consequently they simply notified their adherence to the amount they had sent in and left that worthy to pursue any course he chose. Some of the dai jed on the terms offered by the ial official, others travelled back to Hankow in his' wallet wore all those preferred by the Church of Scotland Missi sion.
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