Maritimes is responsible for a very extrastatement. He declares that the ited so much curiosity in China that native travellers' agencies have been formed in Canton and Peking for the express purpose of arranging trips to Paris on the instalment plan. So many Chinese, in fact, are coming here, he say: that extra steamers will have to be put on to supply the demand for berths. The instalmenty, it appears, are payable in mone kind. Tam trying hard to ima; Chinese trudging (o the local tourist agent with a for strings of cash or a brace or two of fowls to pay his weekly contribution towards a trip to Paris!
2ist April.
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