The Archive · 1899

THE GREAT CAsH QUESTION

although still acrite seems to have reddied bottom; the exchange has taken an upward tendency. "After touching 75 to the' can it is now 810. Runners were on! of bad cash, from a plethora of which the yamen last week procialatog tain has suffered for years,, All the.coinage villanies of the Province have ever centered here, and this is doubtless_one of the many causes of the cash evil.. Heavy, exports to meet the wagea.of coolie-labour, up atitho Russian railway works near Newchwang is probably another; hoarding in the prospect of further fall, third.

"The historic quarrel between the right and left hand was exemplified in Tientain Jast week when "the authorities of the China Eogineering'and Mining Company came to Jogger! with the

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