'A Hangchow dispatch reports that awin, to the large quantities of kero<one ai imported annually into Chekiang provinea, roughly estimated at a' million cases year, the high authorities of that province have decided to put an extra tax of a few cash on each catty of kerosene oil imported. fois stated that' there are eight. Chinase hongs who control the trade in Chekiang, and their managers were therefore invited lately to a conference with the Chief Tax Commissioner to arrange measures for collecting the proposed extra tax which the merchants were made to understand is meant to assist the province in paying its portion of the War Indemnity.
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