The chief excitement in the native city of late has been the failure of " noted bank which will doubtless spell ruin to many a worthy family. Its failure was brought about) in a characteristic Chinese fastiion. One of the bank assistants had for some reason been dismissed, and as soon as he left the doors of the bank he took his revenge. Knowing the people who held the bank's notes he merely told them, as a personal friend would, that they would be wise to cash those notes. This news was through the city in a thrice, and the street where the bank is was soon thronged by crowds come to cash their notes. Notwithstanding having dismissed one of their servants the bunk very foolishly had not prepared itself to meet the inevitable rush, and soon all the ready cash had been given out. Then the row commenced and an official appeared with runners to quell the disturbance. One man with a large roll of notes was especially boisterous and this man the runners seized, and beat till the blood ran, This was too much for the populace who rushed the mandarin's chair, broke in all the windows, and caused his honour ignominiously to flee. Many of us foreigners held this bank's notes but fortunately a letter to the Hong. Kong and Shanghai Bank can prevent our cheques to natives being cashed,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.