The April Mouthly Cups were shot for on the 97th inst. The attendance was fair and weather InClass "A" there were 19 competitors; Private Mace won the Cup for the first time with a score of 50, 1) For goods consumed in the rts of importation which have no need for it Passes. i For goods sent to the Northern provinces where there is practically no likin, The value to be deducted under the first head it is impossible to estimate; the value of the gools sent to the "non-likin" provinees of the north was, in 1901, about 1s. 60,000,000; a liberal estimate for deduction under both headings may be put Tls. 100,000,000, leaving a value of Tls. 112,317,784 for imports which might have been expected to advantage themselves of the Transit Pass; had they done so the Transit Duties would have amounted to nearly Tls. 2,00,000 but as the actual amount collected was only Tls. 715,000, it would seem that only about a third of these imports were moved under the Transit Pass. Moreover it m: remarked that of the Tls. 715,000, considerably more than a half was collected at the three ports of Chinkiang, Kiukiang, and Hankow, leaving a paltry collection of some Tls. 340,009 for the whole of the rest of China.
There is surely little in this that can be claimed a as success for the Transit and if it has been a is of Transit Duty, how is it to be made less of a y ioo ing that duty from that is te Mears...
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