We are beginning to feel the effects of the attempt to reform the Chinese copper currency, a reform which the Shan-tunes have' borrowed from Kiangsu. Fen-cash picees are at last current in this part of the province. But only in and around the cities is this true; for the country people are slow about adopting an innovation of any kind. Perhaps in the course of a few months, even in remote districts, the convenience of this new medium of exchange will be appreciated. Already spurious ten-cash pieces are appearing, 2 body of tin being covered with copper in such a careful way that many are deceived.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.