Recent letters from the South of China, it may be remembered, accounts of a serious deadlock which had arisen between Mr. Klein, C missioner of Customs at Hoihow and the Chinese merchants of that port. The exact nature of the complaint did not come to hight, but apparently the merchants resented certain modifications which Mr. Kleina had introduced in the tariff and they declared a boycott daring which, for a whole week, no ship could do avy business at Hoihow. It was generally imagined that Mr. Kiel would have to be removed, but according to a letter from our Pakhoi correspondent dated September 5, he has succeed. ed in maintaining his position whi the boycott appears to have broken down, owing, it is said, to the boycotters' fear of bringing any specific charges against the Commissioner. Outside questions of actual monetary loss, the! worst sufferers are the local wbinese officials who went out of their way to give a gratuitous pledge that Mr. Kleina should be removed before August 26. The non-fulfilment of this pledge entails on the officials a severe: loss of face.
Our correspondent adds that a few days prior to the date of writing, quarrel broke out between the Gove ment soldiers and the police in Hoihow, in which fear of the latter were killed.
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