'A Soochow dispatch to haud states that under special instructions from the Board of Revenue, H.E. Nich, Governor of thi province, has given orders to all the Likin and native Customs stations and barriers throughout this portion of Kiangsu to add thirty per cent to the regular duties levied by them on tobacco, wines and spirits, sugar and tea carried through the province. The excuse given by the Board of Revenue for laying this extra duty is that the War Indemnity is so large that ordinary duties on commodities must be increased to meet this additional burden upon the Eupi Governor Nieh has given instructions te begin collecting the extra duties on the Lith inst. (Ist day, 10th moon).
The Reward for Undertaking the Perilous Journey" to Japan—for so the Mission of Apology to that country was at first considered by the special Ambassador Na Ttung and his friends—according to a Peking dispatch, has been a lucrative appointment for the ex-Boxer on his return to the Capital in the shape of the Senior Vice-Commissionership of Octroi at the Ch'ungwén-gate. This post, previous to the Boxer disturbances of last year, together with the Chief and Junior
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