(Japanese Hypothetic Bank) is anxiously casting its eyes around China to see in what Chinese industry it can invest its capital; and on the occasion of Viceroy Chang's negotiations with Mr, Yasuda it is said 10 have even proposed to lend the Viceroy the sum of 600,000 taels for twenty years, xt the modest interest of seven per cent per annum.
New Cargo Company in Tientsin.
'This eagerness of Japanese to lend money to China at a time when they themsely: s seem to need money more than the Chinese, is the rule, not the exception. The Japanese Shippers' Alliance is now, in combination, it is alleged, with an Englishman in Kobe, the latter subscribing half the capital, about to establish a cargo company at Tientsin. 'The idea originated at the conference of the above-mentioned 'Alliance held in Osaka last month, and the Japanese are particularly keen on it because precedence is given, they allege, by the present company at' Tientsin to American and European ships in the shift-ug of cargo, with the result that Japanese Hongkong, 31st May.
A week of dulness and of damp. It has rained with unfailing regularity every day this week more or less' and principally more, the total volume being very consid-storage beyond all further daube for the erable and placing the adequacy water next six months. But the welcoming daily, downpour is becoming just the least bit monotonous. Man is never quite content!
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