A letter appears in the papers, ad-cessed to Chinese landlords by the Committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, advocating that property owners should now endeavour to see their way to granting soma reduction in the cxist~ ing rate of rents. The general removal of families daring the previous few days, though x resalt of the Plague investigations, is chiefly due to high rents. It seems clear that now is the time for landlords to consider this matter, or it may be too late to do 80 hereafter, November 17.
'THE CHINRSE PLAGUE MEETING, The Press contains fall reports of the Chinese public meeting on plague measures, held yesterday afternoon at the Ewo Yoen Godown at the corner, time that owing to the large attendance of Chinese mer-chaute and residents in the plague area the meeting was stormy and that it was found impossible to hold it in the manner intended. An announcement was, therefore, made by Mr. Shen Tun-be that a farther mesting would be sag-gested for the Town Hall on a day to be shortly arranged. The " Simeanpas"
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