The latest move on the part of the uew Viceroy is to put into circulation, or to put out proclamations for that purpose, the new silver dollar in this part of the provin The people however are trying to keep from being used and will not take it except a great discount. The merchants i Kiating are very conservative and with a Manchurian anti-progressive prefect in office there is no one to create a progressive
that the Viceroy rims at making the spirit among. the people It is understood silver dollar of uniform value throughout the province. i.e. worth a thousand cash.
All there be learned at present, about the Abolition of Likin is that it is to he discontinued after the New Year. The merchants of the city look uupou the announcement a3 a The Mantze.
We are now in the midst of the "Mantze" season, On their way to worship oh O-Mei San they visit Kinting to do their annual shopping They bring with thei their boar tusks and deer musk for sale, and buy to take home skin boxes, brass utensils, and cotton cloth The first contingent of the season, numbering nearly a hundred, has just left to-day to retarn io their native wilds. While here they were given the freedom of the city and the use of one of the ig temples of the city for their accommodation.
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