The tea business is now in full swing, and a day or two since the largest. single day's business on record was reported, no loss than 4,890 piculs having changed hands, The Japanese holders had been holding out. for higher prices, but finally gave way. The quality of the leaf is said to be fully up to that of former seasons. As North-China Daily News readers probably know, tea growers up country here are now paying ecumest attention to the cultivation of teas of higher classes, and the move so far has been amply rewarded.
Kobe, 25th May. going on some wf the apprentices and others were brutally slashed with swords, Then the robbers leisurely went off with their booty, [hear that all the silver shoes carried off were not real ones but that some were false and are generally kept by aturekeepers to give to robbers when they come along! What a wonderfully cautious mau Chinaman 'THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR, Visiting a couple of days afterwards the shop which was the scene of the outrage L asked how it was that some 20 or 30 of them had not made some kind of resistance.
replied that they were quite unarmed resistatice would only have resulted in their certain death; I then asked why the neighbours, in such a case, had not made common cause and rushed to the rescue, for their turn might come next. My only response was that they were all xi raid and their attention was fully occupied in running away and concealing themselves Tt seems almost incredible that a band ut robbers are able to conic down thus openly, and in the very middle of a busy city successfully conduct a robbery like this. But that it ie possible is proved in this instance, and this is the second case in couple of months and within three doors of each other in the same city.
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